Settings and config

The settings menu can be accessed by clicking the cog button on the left-hand side of the screen, or by hitting the ESC key.

Settings can be changed for the current session by navigating the menu and altering the desired options. If you want to save the changes permanently, click the save button located in the menu at the top left-hand corer.

The config file for GW is called .gw.ini and is usually saved in your home directory, or under ~/.config folder. Feel free to edit this. If you mess things up, just remove the ini file and GW will make a new one in the home directory when you restart.

Reference genomes

Reference genomes are defined by a unique genome-tag (e.g. hg19 or t2t) and a path to a local or online genome in fasta format. For best performance always use a local file if possible. Add a new reference genome by either editing the .gw.ini file, or click the + button at the top of the menu in the Genomes section.

Default tracks

Tracks can be loaded when a specific genome-tag is selected during start up. The list of tracks to load for a genome-tag is defined as a comma-separated-list of paths. For example:

hg19=a.bed,b.gff3

This line will tell GW to load a bed file and a gff3 track file when the hg19 genome-tag is used.

Ideograms can be configured by appending _ideogram to the tag e.g.:

hg19_ideogram=hg19.ideogram.bed