Select annotations, graphs and sequence regions in order to perform certain operations on them. To select items, choose the pointer tool:
The following are ways to select items in the viewer window using the pointer tool.
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Select a single annotation. |
Click on it. |
Select an entire gene model instead of an exon. |
Directly select a whole gene by clicking on the line connecting the exons. If you mistakenly select an exon instead of a gene, right-click in the blank background or on a selected annotation and choose Select parent. |
Select a single graph. |
Click on its handle - the rectangle at the left inside the main view window. |
Select an entire annotation track. |
Click on its track label in the left-hand panel. |
Select multiple annotations or graphs. |
Drag the mouse through a region to select all enclosed items. For graphs, the drag should include the graph handle. A drag must begin in the empty area, not on top of any annotation or in the coordinates track.You can use shift-click or shift-drag to select additional items. Tip: IGB reports the number of selected items in the lower left corner. Use this to count aligned sequences in an alignments track. |
Select a sequence region. |
Drag along the axis of the coordinates track to select a set of genomic residues. To select residues, the drag must begin in the axis tier. |
Deselect everything. |
Click the empty background space in the viewer window. |
Add to the current selection |
Shift-click to add individual items or shift and drag to add multiple items. |
Open a pop-up menu |
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Highlighting matching endpoints
To see if different data sources show the same start and endpoints for an annotation, select it; all matching edges of the corresponding items in all tracks being viewed will be highlighted in white.