User preferences and settings

The first three sections in this chapter deal with the general preferences that can be set for Biomedical Genomics Workbench using the Preferences dialog. The next section explains how the settings in the Side Panel can be saved and applied to other views. Finally, you can learn how to import and export the preferences.

The Preferences dialog offers opportunities for changing the default settings for different features of the program.

The Preferences dialog is opened in one of the following ways and can be seen in figure 4.1:

        Edit | Preferences (Image Options_3_16_n_p)

   or  Ctrl + K (Image command_key_web + ; on Mac)

Image preferences
Figure 4.1: Preferences include General preferences, View preferences, Data preferences, and Advanced settings.



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