Introduction

The first IGB User's Guide appeared in 2003 when Affymetrix released IGB for the first time. For many years, the User's Guide was published in PDF format. In 2010, we converted the User's Guide to wiki format to allow more people to contribute to the Guide and update it as the IGB application changes and grows.

Credits

The wiki software we are using to publish the current IGB User's Guide is from Atlassian Software, which gave us a license to use their software.

Many people have edited and added content to the User's Guide, including Ann Loraine, John Nicol, Archana Raja, Hiral Vora, Shira Stav, Vikram Bishnoi, Alyssa Gulledge, Richard Linchangco and many others.

Thank you to Atlassian and to IGB User's Guide authors for helping scientists and educators learn to use IGB in for research and teaching.

Document Conventions

On-screen text (i.e., menus, button labels, folder names, field values, etc.) is indicated by bold font.

An item followed by a "greater than" symbol followed by another item means "click the first item; the second item will become visible; then click the second item."

Examples:

• File > Open File means "click on the File menu and choose Open File."
• Data Access tab > Load Sequence In View means "click the Data Access tab and then click the Load Sequence In View button"

Note that some images are from earlier versions of IGB and may differ slightly from the latest, released version.

Unless otherwise noted, the manual assumes you are using a two button mouse (right and left buttons).  Operations in this document that require right-clicking can be performed on single-button mice (e.g., Apple) by holding down the control key while clicking the mouse button.