Support for Genome Workbench will end on March 31 2024. You may still use the application, but supporting documentation will not be available after this date. Read more.
Graphical View Navigation
I. NAVIGATION WITH MOUSE/HOT KEYS OVERVIEW
Zoom in/out
- Press and hold mouse wheel and drag vertically
- Press and hold Z + scroll mouse wheel
- Press and hold Z + click and hold left mouse button and drag vertically
- Press +/-
Zoom to 0% of Zoom
- Press *
Pan
- Click and hold left mouse button and drag horizontally
- Press and hold P + click and hold left mouse button and drag horizontally
Zoom to Region
- Press and hold R + click and hold left mouse button and drag horizontally
Zoom to Object
- Double click on object
Scroll Page
- Scroll mouse wheel
II. MARKER MANIPULATION OVERVIEW
- Set Sequence Marker: Press “M”
- Move Sequence Marker: Click-and-horizontal-drag the head portion of the marker
- Move Marker to the Next Splice (Selected Object): TAB or Right Arrow
- Move Marker to the Previous Splice (Selected Object): Shift + TAB or Left Arrow
- Remove Marker: Double click on the marker head portion
III. OBJECT SELECTION OVERVIEW
- Select a Single Object: Click left mouse button
- Incremental Selection: Press and hold CTRL + Left Click
- Rectangular Selection: Shift + Left click-and-drag
- Deselect All Objects: Double Left click on empty space
Current Version is 3.8.2 (released December 12, 2022)
General
Help
Tutorials
- Basic Operation
- Using Active Objects Inspector
- Configure tracks and track display settings
- Working with Non-Public Data
- Viewing Multiple Alignments and Trees
- Broadcasting
- Genes and Variation
- Generating and Viewing Sequence Overlap Alignment
- Working with BAM Files
- Loading Tabular Data
- Working with VCF Files
- Sequence View Markers
- Opening Projects in Genome Workbench
- Publication quality graphics (PDF/SVG image export)
- Editing in Genome Workbench
- Create Protein Alignments using ProSplign
- GFF-CIGAR export for alignments
- Exporting Tree Nodes to CSV
- Generic Table View
- Running BLAST search against custom BLAST databases
- Using Phylogenetic Tree
- Coloring methods in Multiple Alignment View
- Displaying translation discrepancies
- Searching in Genome Workbench
- Graphical View Navigation and Manipulation
- Using the Text View to Review and Edit a Submission
- BAM haplotype filtering
- Displaying new non-NCBI molecules with annotations
- Creating phylogenetic tree from precalculated multiple alignment
- Creating phylogenetic tree starting from search
- Video Tutorials
General use Manuals
- Tree Viewer Formatting
- Tree Viewer Broadcasting
- Genome Workbench Macro
- Query Syntax in Genome Workbench and Tree Viewer
- Multiple Sequence Aligners
- Running Genome Workbench over X Window System
NCBI GenBank Submissions Manuals
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Genome Submission Wizard
- Save Submission File
- Reports
- Import
- Sequences
- Add Features
- Add Publication
- Comments
- Editing Tools