General Function Checklist

Validating Track Preference Changes

1. Open the A_thaliana_Jun_2009 genome.
2. Navigate to the following coordinates: Chr1:635,037-637,360
3. Right click on the track label and select Optimize Stack Height.
4. Right click on the white space within a track.
5. 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.

• The context menu looks like the one pictured above.

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Select Delete Track.

• The track disappeared.

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Add the TAIR10 mRNA track back in via the Available Data section.

• The track reappeared with no data loaded. 

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