General Function Checklist
- Default tracks
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- Open a species from the home page of IGB. The examples below are using Arabidopsis Thaliana.
- Ensure that x and y zoomers are completely zoomed out.
- Ensure that the tracks consume all of the available vertical space
- Zoom in by click and dragging across the coordinates. Note that the screenshot is missing the mouse cursor. The blue highlighted area represents the area created by dragging the cursor.
- Adjust the zoom such that multiple gene models are in view
- Double click on the barb wire region of a gene model. The view should zoom to fit the selected gene model.
- Zoom back out to view multiple gene models
- Right click on a different gene model.
- Validate that the menu looks as follows
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Validating Track Preference Changes
- Open the A_thaliana_Jun_2009 genome.
- Navigate to the following coordinates: Chr1:635,037-637,360
- Right click on the track label and select Optimize Stack Height.
- Right click on the white space within a track.
- Select Customize...
- This action opened the Track Preferences tab with the selected track highlighted.
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Change the Track Name to Test Name, then select Apply.
- The track names were updated.
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Change the foreground, background, and track label colors to match the following image:
- The main view of IGB is now colored correctly with the three colors you chose.
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Change the track label font size to 20.0.
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- The font increased appropriately.
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Uncheck the Arrow option in the Show Strand box.
- The barbed wire disappeared from the intron sections of gene models.
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Check the +/- option in the Show Strand box to combine the plus and minus strands.
- The two strands are now one.
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Check the Color option in the Show Strand box.
- The gene models updated to the colors indicated.
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Click Restore to Default in the Tracks tab in Preferences.
- All settings changed in the Tracks tab are restored to their original values
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Adding and Removing Tracks
Right click on the white space surrounding the gene models
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- The context menu looks as follows
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- like the one pictured above.
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Select
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Delete Track
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- The track disappeared.
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Add the TAIR10 mRNA track back in
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via the Available Data section.
- The track will reappear reappeared with no data loaded. Select the Load Data button to reload the data.
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