[Biopython-dev] Genome Diagram Default Behavior

[Leighton Pritchard]

On 1 Aug 2012, at Wednesday, August 1, 12:05, Peter Cock wrote:

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Leighton Pritchard
<Leighton.Pritchard at hutton.ac.uk<mailto:Leighton.Pritchard at hutton.ac.uk>> wrote:

It doesn't, if the single track is the same height as before - what differs
is the whether the features on that track are half, or full, track height.

Yes, but once you've configured the arrows to straddle the axis, you can
then allocate less vertical space to that track. i.e. it needs less space.

I understand that  - and maybe I'm being (over) pedantic - but you can allocate less vertical space to the track in either case: the question is what kind of feature representation gives you the desired information legibly at those settings ;)

That was another idea I was considering. Under this model, the sigils
could be given the full strand straddling bounding box, and decide if
they will use all of this (i.e. the new 'large_arrow', or the current sigils
when strand-less), or just half as in the stranded current 'arrow' and
'box' sigils where the strand is known.

That could work quite well, and the end user API is quite clean.

This option gets my vote.

L.

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