Merging tracks
Two tracks can be merged using the Merge Annotation Tracks tool:
Toolbox | Track Tools (
) | Merge Annotation Tracks
Select the two or more tracks to be merged. They have to be of the same type, e.g. gene tracks, and be based on the same genome.
Click Next and Finish to merge the tracks.
If the same annotation is found in both tracks, it is merged into one: If the two annotations share the same region (i.e. same coordinates), they are merged. Information from both annotations are retained in the output. They are merged even if their name is different. This is useful when merging gene tracks from different sources using different naming conventions.
An extra column labeled Origin tracks is added to the result track indicating which tracks the annotation originates from.
Please note that this tool is not well-suited for comparing tracks (see Comparing variants instead).