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Preferences

IGB is well known for the high degree of flexibility it offers users in order to fine-tune IGB behavior.  

You can change track foreground and background colors, change how gene models are displayed, merge plus and minus tracks into a single track, and much more, set up keyboard shortcuts that control a variety of different IGB functions.

IGB remembers these settings from session to session, but you can also "reset preferences" to defaults.

Also, when you re-launch IGB, it will remember the genome you were looking at previously.

You can open the Preferences Window in one of two ways:offers many options to customize track appearance, add new data servers, and change data loading behavior.

Most customization options are available via the Preferences window which contains several tabbed panels devoted to different types of preferences.

To open the Preferences window

• Choose File > Preferences or
• Right-click a Track Label and choose Configure

 It opens a new window with several tabs, including Tracks, Track Defaults, Shortcuts, Graphs, Other Options, Plugin Repositories, and Data Sources.

Tip: To reset Preferences to default values, choose Other Options and click Reset Preferences to defaults

Overview

• Tracks

The tab has been redesigned starting with IGB 6.6. Default functions have been moved to Track Defaults tab. This updated panel allows active management of many aspects of the tracks. This includes style (colors, font size etc.), model representation (collapsed, max expand, etc) and a new property for identifying strandedness (color by strand, arrows). All of these changes are immediately applied (unless you set it otherwise). More about Tracks. 

• Track Defaults

The new Track Defaults tab allows the user to set IGB to load files with specific colors, labels, font size, etc. based on file type. You can use the IGB defaults or set your own parameters. Simply find the file type you want, add it to the list and then set the style. IGB will then load all new files of that type with those specifications.

• Shortcuts

IGB allows you to create keyboard shortcuts for the functions you use most often. Simply highlight the function from the list and type the key stroke(s) you wish to use to activate the function. Then click the 'Apply this Shortcut' button to save it. More about Shortcuts.

• Graphs

In the current versions of IGB, this tab allows you to set the following 3 items (shown set to default):

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The Heatmap menu gives several color combination choices.

• Other options

This tab gives you the opportunity to adjust the appearance of the axises, the colors of ORFs and base residues. It also has the very important (and dangerous) 'Reset all preferences to default' key. More about Other Options.

• Plugin Repositories

This tab can also be accessed by using the Repositories button in the Plug-ins tab of the main window. This is the list of all current plug-in repository servers, including the inactive ones; this is also where you can add new repositories. The details of using this tab can be found in the Plug-ins page.

• Data Sources

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• Click the Preferences shortcut icon in the Toolbar

The following links contain descriptions of each tab in the Preferences window.