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To select items, click the pointer icon to activate the selection cursortool:
The following are ways to select items in the Main View window using the pointer selection tool; selections are outlined in red.
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Select a single annotation or feature. | Click on it. | ||||
Select a multi-exon gene model | Click on a line connecting exons or on the label (if active). | ||||
Select a single-exon gene model | Click an exon, right-click and choose Select parent. | ||||
Add to the current selection | Shift SHIFT-click to add individual items or shift and drag to add multiple items. | ||||
Select multiple items in the display | Click-drag the mouse over all items you wish to select A . Start the drag must begin in the an empty area, not on top of any annotation or in the coordinates track.You can use shift. SHIFT-click or shiftSHIFT-drag to select additional itemsadd to current selection.
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Deselect 1 item from a group selection. | Shift Type SHIFT+cntl CNTRL and click on the item to be deselected, without deselecting the whole group. you want to de-select | ||||
Select a sequence region. | Drag along the axis of the coordinates track to select a set of genomic residues. Click-drag over the sequence bases you want to select. To select residues, the drag must begin dragging in the axis tier. | ||||
Deselect everything. | Click the an empty background space region anywhere in the viewer windowmain view. | ||||
Select a single floating graph. | Click on its handle - the rectangle at the left inside the main view window data display area | ||||
Select an entire annotation track. | Click on its track label in the left-hand panel. |
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Selecting items activates edge matching
When you select items in the display, the edges of the selected item and all other items with identical edges in the same position are highlighted.
This feature helps in comparing splice variation, exon length, read location, etc.
You can change the edge match color or turn it off. See Other Options.
Selecting multiple tracks
Some track operations involve multiple tracks, such as the Join function (graph track) and Intersect (annotation tracks).
To select more than one track
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