This tab contains several options addressing the color/appearance of non-track elements in the image, as well as some other miscellaneous options.
Axis
The options for changing axis appearance are here. You can change the foreground and background colors to suit your needsor customize the format used to present numbers. Changes to the colors will not appear dynamically, but will take place when take effect after closing the Preferences window is closed.
You can alter how the number scale appears to reflect your preference. numbers appear as follows.
Changing Number format to FULL shows the number with no thousands separators and the unit 'kb'. COMMA shows the numbers with commas at every 10^3 (American style) and with no unit designations. This is the default appearance. ABBREV will show the numbers as abbreviated as is reasonable, with unit designations, i.e. zoomed all the way . For example, when zoomed out, numbers are appear as 10M, 20M etc. Zoomed in a bit, numbers are shown as 19,500k, 20,500k. Zoomed all the way in, numbers are shown fully. Changes made here appear dynamically in your image.Changes made here to Number Format take effect immediately.
ORF (Open Reading Frames) Analyzer
This set of preferences changes the color of the These preferences affect colors used to indicate stop codons and the ORFs shown in the Sliced View tab. After setting new color options, uncheck and recheck the Analyze ORFs option in the Sliced View tab to show the new color scheme.
Change Residue Colors
IGB shows each residue with an individual color highlight at the fully zoomed in level. At less zoom, where the letter cannot be fully shown, IGB will still show the color for each residuecolors residues when zoomed in. In this section, you can change what color represents each residue individually; color settings for residues. By default, IGB uses cool colors for A and T residues and warmer colors for G and C residues. Other refers to residues that are either 'N', 'X' or '-' (missing) and can be set to a bright color if you are looking for deletions in short read sequences; otherwise you may wish to leave it as the neutral gray. If you do NOT wish for individual residue highlights, set the colors to white. Changes made in this section will be applied to the image after the Preferences window is closed.
Tip: Reset residue colors to whatever the Axis backround color to avoid coloring bases. showing your current colors to the current background color of the If you do NOT wish for individual residue highlights, set the colors to white.
Miscellaneous Options
IGB warns you when you are about to exit the program, before you delete a file or files, and before you load very large files, >100MB. Each of these warnings has the option Do not show again. If you decide that you do want the warnings to appear, you can reset your choice from this pane. Check (or uncheck) Ask before exiting, Confirm before delete and/or Confirm before load.
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