Upon startup, IGB begins a "Bookmark Server" at http://localhost, port 7085. (If that port is being used, it looks for the next available one.)

This server is used to handle HTTP requests.

In IGB 6.3, this can be used to script IGB, via:

scriptfile=<script file>

A file or URL to run commands from. See Script File for more details.

Older (but still used) options

version=<version>

Genome version

seqid=<Chromosome ID>

Chromosome ID

start=<start>

start of sequence to load

end=<end>

end of sequence to load

das2_server=<server URL>

DAS/2 server to load the data

das2_query=<query to DAS/2>

query made to the DAS/2 server

Examples

Here is an example for H_sapiens_Mar_2006, querying the Affymetrix DAS/2 server.

http://127.0.0.1:7085/UnibrowControl?version=H_sapiens_Mar_2006&seqid=chr21&start=25900000&end=26100000&das2_server=http%3A%2F%2Fnetaffxdas.affymetrix.com%2Fdas2%2Fgenome&das2_query=http%3A%2F%2Fnetaffxdas.affymetrix.com%2Fdas2%2Fgenome%2FH_sapiens_Mar_2006%2Ffeatures%3Fsegment%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnetaffxdas.affymetrix.com%252Fdas2%252Fgenome%252FH_sapiens_Mar_2006%252Fchr21%3Boverlaps%3D25900000%253A26100000%3Btype%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnetaffxdas.affymetrix.com%252Fdas2%252Fgenome%252FH_sapiens_Mar_2006%252Faffy%252FHG-U133_Plus_2%252Bnetaffx%252Bconsensus%3Bformat%3Dlink.psl

Here are examples that would run a script file:

http://127.0.0.1:7085/UnibrowControl?scriptfile=commands.txt

or

http://127.0.0.1:7085/UnibrowControl?scriptfile=http://example.com/commands.txt