New ability to create duplicate tracks

[Gerardo Perez]

Hello Everyone,

We are pleased to announce the new Duplicate track feature, which allows a copy of a track to have its own independent settings and be used for multiple display views.

You can have multiple duplicates of the same track where the number will increment by one for each additional duplicate, and each duplicated track is independent of each other. Only tracks that are not inside of composite or supertracks can be duplicated and this feature does not work in hubs.

Duplicate tracks can be helpful when comparing different settings and visibility types on the same data; for instance, displaying all GENCODE genes, including pseudogenes, in dense mode, alongside a more concise gene set, such as the default, in pack mode to see gene symbols and accessions. This is shown in the image below, where duplicated GENCODE track has the additional text "(duplicate #1)" on the label above the track display and "#1" text on the left label of the track display.

For more information, see the "Duplicating a track" section of the Genome Browser User Guide.

We would like to thank Brian Joseph Raney, Max Haeussler, Jairo Navarro, and Gerardo Perez for their work on this release.