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-Welcome Integrated Genome Browser QuickLoad. -
+Data available here are configured for visualization in the Integrated Genome Browser. +These data include gene annotation files and genome information for +many plant, animal, and microbial species.
+When IGB launches, it contacts a deployed copy of Quickload Main and retrieves +a file "contents.txt" that lists all genome assemblies available for +display in IGB.
--A QuickLoad site is a simple system of directories, sequence and other data -files designed for visualization in Integrated Genome Browser. It's a convenient -way to share data sets with other labs and with the public. For more information, - see the IGB User's Guide: -Sharing data using QuickLoad Sites. +The data here are version-controlled using subversion, a centralized version-control system that +attaches versions to individual files and supports checking out parts of the repository. To browse +the subversion repository hosting these data, visit +https://svn.bioviz.org/viewvc/genomes/quickload/.
++A Quickload site is a simple system of directories, sequence files, and +annotation files formatted for visualization in Integrated Genome Browser. It's a convenient +way to share data sets with other labs and with the public. IGB can display the contents of +many Quickload sites at the same time. This makes it easy to compare data across experiments. +This makes IGB an "integrated" genome browser.
++This site is a checked-out copy of Quickload Main subversion repository, deployed in the "htdocs" directory +of the apache2 Web server. +
-All files are version controlled in a publicly-accessible subversion repository https://svn.bioviz.org/viewvc. Contact Professor Ann Loraine for more information. +To make the Quickload data contents easy to browse, the repository also includes styling configurations using +javascript and CSS.
+ +Install svn and check out the repository with a read-only user:
+`svn co --username=guest https://svn.bioviz.org/repos/genomes/quickload`
+When prompted, enter username "guest" and password "guest".
+ +Open Integrated Genome Browser and select Preferences from the File menu. Select the Data Sources tab. Add the checked-out root directory as a new Quickload Data Source. The folder containing the file "contents.txt" is the Quickload root directory.
+Some genome sequence files are so large that they are not version-controlled. One such file +is `T_aestivum_Aug_2018.2bit`, a wheat genome assembly sequence file. To enable IGB users to view +sequence data from this genome, add the file to directory `quickload/T_aestivum_Aug_2018`.
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