Introduction

The first IGB User's Guide appeared in 2003 when Affymetrix first released IGB for the first time. Since then, several people have edited and improved it, including Ann Loraine, John Nicol, Archana Raja, Hiral Vora, Shira Stav, Vikram Bishnoi, Alyssa Gulledge and others. 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. We also added screen cast videos to make it easier for new users to learn to work with IGB. Thank you to Aaron White and Alyssa Gulledge for providing narration.If you would like to contribute to the IGB documentation, please contact Ann Loraine (aloraine@uncc.edu).

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 free complimentary license to use their software.Thank you Atlassian!products.

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

Document Conventions

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

An item followed by a "greater than" symbol followed by another item means "click the first item; the second item will become visible; then click the second item."

Examples:

• File menu > Open File... means "click on the File menu and choose Open File..."
• Data Access tab > Load Sequence In View means "click the Data Access tab and then click the Load Sequence In View > Set AutoLoad Threshold to Current View means "click on the View menu and then click the Set AutoLoad Threshold to Current View button"

Note that some images are free from earlier versions of IGB and may differ slightly from the latest, released version.

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.