Introduction

The first IGB User's Guide appeared in 2003 when Affymetrix released IGB for the first time. For many years, the User's Guide was published in PDF format. In 2010, we converted the User's Guide to wiki format to allow more people to contribute to the Guide and update it as the IGB application changes and grows.

Credits

The wiki software we are using to publish the current IGB User's Guide is use Confluence wiki software from Atlassian Software, which gave us a complimentary license to use their softwareproducts.

Many people have edited and added content to the User's Guide, including Ann Loraine, John Nicol, Archana Raja, Hiral Vora, Shira Stav, Vikram Bishnoi, Alyssa Gulledge, Mason Meyer, David Norris, Richard Linchangco and many others.

Thank you to Atlassian and to IGB User's Guide authors for helping scientists and educators learn to use IGB in for research and teaching.

Document Conventions

On-screen text (i.e., menus, button labels, folder names, field values, etc.) is indicated by bold font.

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Unless otherwise noted, the manual assumes you are using a two button mouse (right and left buttons).  Operations in this document that require right-clicking can be performed on If using a single-button mice mouse (e.g., on an Apple computer) by holding down the control , press the CNTRL (control) key while clicking the mouse buttonto perform operations that require right-clicking.