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Welcome to IGB 6.7! We have made many changes and improvements to make IGB even easier for users! to use.
Many changes, such as moving the Species and Genome Version to Current Sequences tab and the redesigned Bookmarks tab are obviouswilll be immediately obvious to IGB veterans, but there are many more new and exciting functions you should explore !in IGB 6.7.
Bookmarks, Export, Web Link and Start Screen are all redesigned
To make IGB easier to use, we re-configured the user interface for several IGB tabs and panels including the Bookmarks tab, the Export File window, and the Web Links Tools interface. Each of these new designs makes it easier to find information and perform functions. Veteran IGB users will also notice that menus and pop-up windows use new, more intuitive names for functions, making the IGB interface more consistent. Finally, the
We also re-designed the IGB start screen. Now, when you start IGB for the first time, you'll see a new start screen gives that provides quick and easy access to a variety of model organisms, helping new users jump right in!.
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Better Bookmarks:
Bookmarks now support comments for each bookmark and for bookmark folders. This allows users to give bookmarks easy-to-remember names, but also allows users to make notes on what they see or even what lab the bookmarks were imported from. Add Bookmark still offers 2 options of Position Only which simple remembers the genomic location or a Position and Data bookmark, an enhanced bookmark remembers and re-loads location AND data sets that were in the original scene (provided they are available). Right clicking on the Position and Data bookmark will open the properties window with a listing of the files that were loaded, as well as time/date created and genome version that was in use. In combination with the redesigned panel, users will find Bookmarks to be more helpful for visualizing, analyzing and sharing data than ever!.
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New options for exporting image files
Along with a redesign to improve ease of use, the Export interface also received features new options not previously available. Users can set now specify image size, file type, and image resolution (DPI) for export. If you are using IG to make figures for publication in print journals, you'll need the ability to create high-quality, high-resolution images necessary for publication. IGB now makes it even easier to create high-quality images of 300 dpi or better (the minimum required for images destined for publication in printed journals). Users You can still select whether the want specify the type of image -- e.g, the main display image, the main image with the track labels, or the entire window with panels (such as Selection Information) showing. As You can export images as .png or .jpeg files , and use these images can readily be used for journal article, presentations or just for publications, slides, or sharing data with otherscolleagues.
Autoload for features that use sequence data.
IGB has many features that require laoding sequence data, such as Restriction Site mapping, Sequence Viewer for gene models and Search Residues. IGB now triggers automatic loading of Previously, IGB would ask you before loading sequence data. Starging with IGB 6.7, IGB will automatically load sequence data, speeding the process of getting you retrieving the information you want. Users need for analysis and visualization. However, you can still Load Sequence in View or Load All Sequence information from the Data Access panel.
New features for Main View:
We added several nice new features to the main view to improve the user experience. One new feature creates a track immediately after opening a file or accessing a data set under the Data Access panel, even before you load the data into the main view. This is where the data will appear once after clicking the Load Data button. Another feature to improve interaction with displayed data, is that the arrow cursor changes to a hand/pointer when your mouse passes over selectable features, indicating that you can interact with these items.
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