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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+
+<%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags"%>
+<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
+<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt"%>
+<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
+<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
+
+<html>
+<jsp:include page="../fragments/header.jsp" />
+<body>
+ <div class="container">
+ <jsp:include page="../fragments/mainmenu.jsp" />
+ <spring:url value="/sequence/sequence/results" var="query"/>
+
+ <div class="panel panel-default">
+ <div class="panel-heading">
+ <div style="font-weight:bold;">Enter protein sequence</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="panel-body">
+ <form method="get" action="${query}">
+ <c:choose>
+ <c:when test="${error == null}">
+ <div class="form-group">
+ <p><textarea class="form-control" rows="3" name="sequence">${value}</textarea></p>
+ <p><input type="radio" name="protein" value="whole">search for the whole sequence<br/>
+ <input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="partial" Checked>search for partial sequence matching</p>
+ <input type="submit" name="Search" value="Search"/>
+ </div>
+ </c:when>
+ <c:otherwise>
+ <div class="form-group has-error">
+ <p><textarea class="form-control" rows="3" name="sequence">${value}</textarea></p>
+ <p class="help-block">${error}</p>
+ <p><input type="radio" name="protein" value="whole">search for the whole sequence<br/>
+ <input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="partial" Checked>search for partial sequence matching</p>
+ <input type="submit" name="Search" value="Search"/>
+ </div>
+ </c:otherwise>
+ </c:choose>
+ </form>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <jsp:include page="../fragments/footer.jsp"/>
+ </div>
+</body>
+</html>