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IGB is well known for the high degree of flexibility it offers users in order to fine-tune IGB behavior. For example, you can
You can change track foreground and background colors, change how gene models are displayed, merge plus and minus tracks into a single track, and much more, set up keyboard shortcuts that control a variety of different IGB functions.
IGB will remember remembers these settings from session to session, but you can also "reset preferences" to defaults.
Also, when you re-launch IGB, it will remember the genome you were looking at previously. Preferences can be accessed from the 'File' menu. It
You can open the Preferences Window in one of two ways:
- Choose File > Preferences or
- Right-click a Track Label and choose Configure
It opens a new window with 5 tabs: Tiers (which will be renamed Tracks in an upcoming version)several tabs, including Tracks, Track Defaults, Shortcuts, Graphs, Other Options, Plugin Repositories, and Data Sources.
Tip: To reset Preferences to default values, choose Other Options and click Reset Preferences to defaults
Overview
- Tracks
The tab has been redesigned in starting with IGB 6.6. Default functions have been moved to Track Defaults tab. This updated panel allows active management of many aspects of the tracks. This includes style (colors, font size etc.), model representation (collapsed, max expand, etc) and a new property for identifying strandedness (color by strand, arrows). All of these changes are immediately applied (unless you set it otherwise). More about Tracks.
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