[Genome] Genome Browser question: collapsing regions not of interest

[Archana Thakkapallayil]

Hello Adnan,

    Unfortunately we don't have this feature available on the browser. 
This is a very good suggestion and we would also like to see this on our 
browser. We have this in our feature implement list, but due to the 
number of project commitments, there will most likely be a long delay 
before we can provide this feature.

    In the meantime, you could use the 'Alt-Splicing' track on the Human 
browser, which may be of some use to you. If you click on a gene in this 
track, you will see a page where the gene is drawn such that the exons 
are exaggerated, and the introns are minimized. This comes under the 
'mRNA and EST track'.

    I hope this information is helpful to you. Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,

Archana
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group



Adnan Derti wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to know if there's an option in the Genome Browser that would 
> allow uninformative regions to be collapsed so that informative regions 
> are highlighed, where "uninformative" would mean "a vertical area not 
> containing an object in any track". For example, let's say you're 
> looking at a gene. Most of the space is taken by introns, so it's 
> difficult to see alternative splicing events. If the introns were 
> shrunk/minimized (i.e., not drawn to scale), the entire exonic structure 
> of the gene could be seen at once.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adnan Derti
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