Tablet Tips

Hints and tips on how to use Tablet are shown periodically in its status bar running along the bottom edge of its main window. For easy reference, the following is a list of all the tips that may appear:

Many of Tablet's menu options are also accessible by right-clicking on the display canvas
Navigate around a view quickly by clicking and dragging on one of the Overview displays
Tablet will periodically check for new versions at startup
The red rectangle on an Overview display shows the region of the data set currently being viewed on the main canvas
Mouse over any read or base position to view further information on it
You can move the canvas's viewpoint around by simply clicking on it and dragging with the mouse
Right click on a visible read, consensus or protein translation to see options for copying its data to the clipboard
Position data is often supplemented with U (unpadded position) and CV (read coverage at that position) values providing the unpadded value and CV providing a value for coverage
Navigate around an alignment by clicking and dragging on either the overview display area or the main display area
GFF3 data can be displayed on the features track after importing
Right click on the features track to access the option to select which tracks are visible
Use the Search tab to search for subsequences within the reads, or within the consensus / reference
Mousing over CIGAR "I" features on the features track highlights the reads - and locations - the insertion relates to
The visible reads tab contains a table of information on the reads currently on screen
CTRL / CMD drag the mouse on the overview display to subset the overview
Right click on a read to access the jump to navigation options for jumping to a read's start, end or pair
Right click on the line connecting paired reads to access jump to options for jumping to the left and right read of the pair
When the read shadower is in custom mode, right click on any base position to lock the highlighting
Mouse over a feature on the feature track to see information including its name and start and end positions