Enhanced track information display

An enhanced display of heatmap track information is now available. To use it, right click on genome heatmap to invoke context menu and select "Information" option:

A panel will appear in floating toolbox showing the track information:

You can see information are now categorized for display. On show is the "general" category, in this case are general info that are retrieved from GEO website.

Second category is data processing parameters and stats. Usually we can't just take the processed data as granted but we have to look into the way it was generated to see if it make any sense at all.

Next category is "Other versions". Right now there's nothing, but we are re-processing the Roadmap and ENCODE data and you will be able to look at our versions as alternative when you are not satisfied with what's available from GEO.

Next category is link to GEO. If the track corresponds to an entry in GEO database, a button will be displayed here. Pushing the button will take you to there.

The last category is the juice, the real thing. However there isn't any contents at the moment, and you have to wait until we finish the re-processing. By then you will be able to look at detailed read alignment for any sequencing tracks available on our browser. 

Enhanced chromosome ideogram graph

This is about the small chromosome ideogram graph on top left corner of the page, not the ideogram graph beneath genome heatmap.

The graph always shows entire chromosome ideogram in which current displayed region locates. It used to be in fixed width. Now the width adjusts to page width. And a ruler is shown below it to mark out sequence length:

You can still drag on the ideogram graph to zoom into a region.


However when current displayed region spans multiple chromosomes, the graph will change into something like this:

Above shows a region spanning chr9 and chr10. Instead of drawing ideograms of chr9 and chr10 two hollow boxes are drawn. Beneath them shows approximate length of the two chromosomes.


And finally, when doing Gene Set View, the graph will be like following:

Where boxes with alternating fill color are used to indicate genes used in the View. Gene name is printed inside box whenever it fits in.

And enjoy the Spring Break!

Genome selector on page start up

Now when the browser is first started, the genome selection dialog box will be displayed. The loading process is paused unless a genome is selected.

This eliminates the nuisance of loading up human genome every time at start up while user's interest is something else.