[Genome] Browser Feature Suggestion: augmented 'move' control to support move-by-feature

[Cook, Malcolm]

Ann,

Spot on, I'd forgotten about that tip... I think the reason why is that
I could never make it work....

Sorry to be obtuse but I've enabled it and don't see any difference....

Nor do I see documentation at
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#FineTuning

What am I missing?

(Firefox 1.5 - javascript & java & popups enabled)

Malcolm Cook
Database Applications Manager - Bioinformatics
Stowers Institute for Medical Research - Kansas City, Missouri
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Zweig [mailto:ann at soe.ucsc.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: Cook, Malcolm
> Cc: genome at soe.ucsc.edu
> Subject: Re: [Genome] Browser Feature Suggestion: augmented 
> 'move' control to support move-by-feature
> 
> Hello Malcolm,
> 
> 	Thanks for the suggestion.  We will consider 
> implementing it, or something like 
> it, in the future.  In the mean time, I wonder if you have found our 
> "next/previous item navigation" feature.  This feature allows 
> you to navigate to 
> the next (or previous) exon or other item of interest in each 
> track.    It 
> advances the track to the right or left bringing into view 
> the next item in that 
> track.  I know that this isn't exactly what you're looking 
> for, but it's not too 
> far off.  I envision your feature request acting something 
> like this, but moving 
> the entire next item(s) into the view.
> 
> 	To enable this feature, press the 'configure' button 
> from the genome browser 
> page.  Then check the "Next/previous item navigation" 
> check-box and hit submit.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> ----------
> Ann Zweig
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
> http://genome.ucsc.edu
> 
> 
> 
> Cook, Malcolm wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Background: the genome browser's existing 'move' controls 
> operate at the
> > unit of the 'vertical gridline'
> > (http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#NAV).
> > 
> > Feature Suggestions: augment the 'move' control to  support 
> moving at
> > the unit of the displayed feature (of a user-selected type).  
> > 
> > Use case: the user could then easily tweak the display to 
> broaden/narrow
> > it on the left of right side so as to usefully include, for 
> example, N
> > more/fewer genes, BAC End Pairs, mRNAs, etc.
> > 
> > I would not expect this capability to be applicable to 
> tracks computed
> > on-the-fly (Restr Enzymes) or wiggle tracks (GC percent).
> > 
> > Any chance?
> > 
> > And, of course....
> > 
> > ...Thanks for the great tool
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Malcolm Cook
> > Database Applications Manager - Bioinformatics
> > Stowers Institute for Medical Research - Kansas City, Missouri
> >  
> > 
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