Navigation
Navigation can either be done with the buttons in the toolbar (arrows and magnifying glasses), with the navigator panel (ruler at the top with a block box), with the mouse or with your keyboard.
Navigator
Drag the edges to zoom in/out. Cursor will change to a resize icon when you are at an edge. Drag the box or the half-circle handles to move to another place in the genome. Click somewhere on the ruler to move to that place.
Mouse
- Ctrl+scroll wheel
- Zooming
- Scroll wheel
- Scroll through tracks
- Drag left-right
- Move left-right
- Shift+ drag left-right
- Select sequence
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Keyboard
- +/- keys
- Zooming
- Arrow keys left-right
- Move left-right.
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Keyboard shortcuts
Navigation
You can use the arrows on the keypad of your keyboard to move around in the evidence and structure panels. The + and - sign buttons can be used to zoom in and out.
- Keypad 4
- Moves the evidence and structure panel to the left
- Keypad 6
- Moves the evidence and structure panel to the right
- Keypad +
- Zoom-in in the evidence and structure panel
- Keypad -
- Zoom-out in the evidence and structure panel
Various keys
- ctrl-C
- Copy the selected sequence to the clipboard
- ctrl-D
- Load the contents of a directory as new entries
- ctrl-E
- Edit the selected feature
- ctrl-F
- Open the SearchView
- ctrl-L
- Load new entries from a file
- ctrl-M
- Merge two or more selected features
- ctrl-N
- Create a new feature from the selected sequence
- ctrl-O
- Load features from a file
- ctrl-Q
- Open the SequenceView
- ctrl-S
- Save
- ctrl-U
- Split a feature between two selected locations
Mouse shortcuts
Structure and evidence panel mouse actions
- Left-clicking a feature
- Select this feature
- Double left-clicking a feature
- Select this feature and center the view around it
- Shift left-click a feature
- Add this feature to the current selection
- Shift left-click a selected feature
- Remove this feature from the current selection
- Mouse-wheel scrolling
- Zoom-in and zoom-out
- Right-click or mouse-wheel click
- Show pop-up menu
Structure panel specific actions
- Dragging the edge of an exon
- Will modify the coordinate of the location you dragged
- Dragging (not the edge of an exon)
- Will select the region over which you dragged the mouse
Evidence panel specific actions
- Dragging
- Will move the panel in the direction you dragged
Note: dragging is holding the mouse button and moving the mouse.