Genome Browser
Introduction
The Genome Browser allows you visualize different file types in a side-scrolling way, the features are rendered ordered by start from left to right. Each file will be represented as a track, several tracks can be added to the browser, and the current supported tracks are GFF, VCF, DNA Fasta and BAM. Tracks can be reordered, hidden or closed using the track controls (
). One chromosome is visualized at a time, the top box represents the whole chromosome and the small box represents the area of the current region.
Figure 1: Genome Browser with all 4 tracks.
GFF Track
The GFF track is able to detect types to group features by genes (genes, transcripts, exons and CDS and the relationship between them by using ID and Parent attributes, see GFF3 Specification for more details ). Genes are in blue, the transcripts are the small red lines, non-coding exons are white boxes with orange border and exons with CDS are filled with orange color. Other non-grouped features appear in grey. GFF Viewer can be opened with the context menu option in the File Manager when selecting a GFF file and using the context menu option Show in GFF Viewer from the table when exploring a GFF file.
With the Features button controls you can classify the types for Genes, Transcripts, Exons and CDS, this will modify the Gene group visualization, by default these types will be set automatically. The checkboxes will hide or show the features, i.e. if you want to show only the genes, you need to uncheck the Transcripts, Exon, CDS, and Unclassified checkboxes.
A tooltip will appear on mouse hover, it will show additional information about the feature and the information is collected from the GFF file.
Figure 2: GFF viewer.
Figure 3: Feature controls.
Figure 4. Feature tooltip.
VCF Track
The VCF track shows the variants in the corresponding position and if you zoom in enough, the alternative nucleotide will be shown.
Figure 5: VCF track
BAM Track
The BAM track shows the reads of a BAM file and if the sequence track is active, will also paint the differences between the read sequence and the sequence track. If you click on the 
checkbox, if the BAM has paired reads, the pair will be painted one beside the other.
Figure 6: BAM track
DNA Fasta Track
The DNA Fasta or sequence track shows the nucleotides and is only shown on low region lengths.
Figure 7: DNA Fasta Track
Navigation
Navigation is performed with the mouse, by left-clicking without releasing the button the scroll action will start, the just move the mouse to move left or right. Also is possible to adjust the region to a feature or gene by double-clicking on it. Zoom in and Zoom out from the current region is performed using the Zoom buttons on the Toolbar, If you zoom out enough, visualization will change and a histogram will show. The chromosome box can be used to select a new region either clicking or by selecting a new box area using click and drag.
Figure 8. Histogram, the small rectangle on the Chromosome box shows the region painted as a histogram.
It is also possible to find features on the GFF and the VCF track using the Search field in the Toolbar, the search results will be shown on a panel beside the Toolbar.
Figure 9: Toolbar
Also, you can add more tracks to the current Genome Browser using the Add track button. A window will appear the available files that can be opened with a Genome Browser as tracks.
Figure 10: Browse tracks to be added to the Genome Browser
Load files
Files must be loaded in order to be shown on the Genome Browser to do that just click on the File menu and under the Load sub-menu you can load GFF, VCF, DNA Fasta and BAM files. These files can be loaded in either with .gff or .gz extension.
A window will appear to select the file to import, use the browse button to select the file from the file system and finally click on the Load button to start the Load process, the load time depends on the file size.
Genome Browser can also be opened from a Table view, If you have already a file open in a table, use the context menu option Show in Genome Browser, by right-clicking on a row, a Genome Browser will be shown on the region of that feature.
Once loaded you may save the file, once the file is saved you can visualize it using the Genome Browser.
Figure 11: Load Files to see in the browser
Figure 12: Browse for GFF file
Figure 13: Open the saved file directly with the Genome Browser
Figure 14: Open the Genome Browser from GFF table