IGV displays genomic coordinates in a 1-based system or 0-based?

Question

[plusone]

Could you please help me determine whether the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) displays genomic coordinates in a 1-based or 0-based system? I have been unable to locate a reference page addressing this question. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[GenoMax]

A prior comment from a thread: Cheat Sheet For One-Based Vs Zero-Based Coordinate Systems

[plusone]

Thanks for your reply. I found one comment from it:

Fun fact regarding IGV: files with .igv ending are 0-based, while the IGV genome browser itself uses the 1-base to display sequences

[GenoMax]

That was the comment I had linked in my comment above.

Answer 1

[ATpoint]

These sorts of things are really easy to dig out. Open IGV, type into the Enter a gene or locus field chr1:0-10 and it will jump and display chr1:1-10, demonstrating it's 1-based which makes sense as 1-based is typically more intuituve for humans and as such suited for a GUI such as IGV.