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10 January 2011 - Introducing Genome Browser Right-click Navigation
Several of the common display and navigation operations
offered on the Genome Browser tracks page may now be quickly
accessed by right-clicking on a feature on the tracks image
and selecting an option from the displayed menu. Depending
on context, the right-click feature will let you
change the track display mode, zoom in or out to the exact
position coordinates of the feature, open the "Get
DNA" window at the feature's coordinates, display
details about the feature, open a popup window to configure
the track's display, or display the entire tracks image in
a separate window for inclusion in spreadsheets or other
documents. (Note that the "PDF/PS" option in the
Genome Browser top navigation bar can also be used to
generate a high-quality annotation tracks image suitable
for printing.)
To use the right-click feature, make sure the "Enable
advanced javascript features" option on the
tracks
configuration page is checked, and configure your
internet browser to allow the display of popup windows from
genome.ucsc.edu. When enabled, the right-click
navigation feature replaces the default contextual menu
typically displayed by your internet browser when you
right-click on the tracks image. A few combinations of the
Mozilla Firefox browser on Mac OS do not support the
right-click menu functionality using secondary click; in
these instances, you must use the explicit ctrl-click action
to display the menu.
Credit goes to Larry Meyer and Brooke Rhead for doing the
lion's share of the design, development and testing of this
feature, with engineering support from Tim Dreszer and
additional testing by several others on the QA team.
2 December 2010 -
Searching for Tracks Just Got Easier!
The number of genome assemblies and annotation
tracks in the UCSC Genome Browser has increased
exponentially over the past few years. Along with this
growth, it has become more difficult for browser users to
sort through the many tracks to find the data they're
interested in.
With our latest Genome Browser release, we've introduced a
new track search feature that will help you to quickly and
easily find and display specific annotation data sets. The
search feature is available via the "track search" button
on the browser gateway and tracks display pages.
Read
more.
24 August 2010 - New Drag and Reorder Functionality Released
It is now possible to rearrange the order that tracks appear
in the browser image directly from the browser image itself.
To reorder tracks, click-and-hold the side label or gray
mini-button of a single track and drag the highlighted track
to a new position within the image.
Read
more.
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