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23 <title>Preferences</title>
28 <strong>Preferences</strong>
31 The preferences panel is opened from the Jalview Desktop’s <strong><em>Tools</em></strong>
34 <p>There are eight tabs in the Preferences dialog box:
36 <li>The <a href="#visual"><strong>"Visual"</strong>
37 Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure the default display for
38 a new alignment window.
40 <li>The <a href="#colours"><strong>"Colours"</strong>
41 Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure default colourschemes
42 for a new alignment window.
44 <li>The <a href="#overview"><strong>"Overview"</strong>
45 Preferences</a> tab configures defaults for the overview window.
47 <li>The <a href="#structure"><strong>"Structure"</strong>
48 Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure options for obtaining
49 and displaying structure information.
51 <li>The <a href="#connections"><strong>"Connections"</strong>
52 Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure Jalview's internet
55 <li>The <a href="#links"><strong>"Links"</strong>
56 Preferences</a> tab shows the currently configured <em>URL
57 Links</em> shown in the <strong>Link</strong> submenu in the Sequence
60 <li>The <a href="#output"><strong>"Output"</strong>
61 Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting the export of
62 sequence alignments and EPS files.
64 <li>The <a href="#editing"><strong>"Editing"</strong>
65 Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting behaviour when editing alignments.
67 <li>The <a href="#startup"><strong>"Startup"</strong>
68 Preferences</a> tab allows you to adjust how much memory is
69 allocated to Jalview when it is launched.
71 <li>The <a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html"><strong>"Web
72 Service"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure the <a
73 href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws">JABAWS</a>
74 servers that Jalview uses, and change the layout of the
75 alignment's Web Services menu.
80 <strong><a name="visual">Visual</a> Preferences tab</strong>
83 <em>Maximise Window</em> - If this is selected, a new alignment
84 window will stretch to fit the available space.
87 <em>Open Overview Window</em> - When this is selected, the <a
88 href="overview.html">alignment overview</a> panel is opened
89 by default for a new alignment window.
92 <em>Show Annotations</em> - If this is selected the new window will
93 display an annotation panel below the sequences. This annotation
94 panel may have several rows describing the whole alignment. The 4
95 standard annotations <em>Conservation</em>, <em>Quality</em>,
96 <em>Occupancy</em> and <em>Consensus</em> for the alignment may
97 be shown or hidden by default using the checkboxes adjacent and
101 <em>Show group: Conservation and Consensus</em> controls the display
102 of per-group automatic annotation.
105 <em>Consensus: Histogram and Logo</em> checkboxes control the
106 display of the consensus histogram and sequence logo for consensus
110 <em>Full Sequence ID</em> - If selected the ID panel will display
111 the name of a sequence plus the start and end residues in the format
112 name/start-end. If not selected, the displayed ID will be the name
116 <em>Right Align IDs</em> - select to align all sequence IDs to the
117 left-hand edge of the sequence alignment, rather than the left-hand
118 edge of the alignment display window.
121 <em>Font</em> - The default font name, size and style can be set for
122 a new alignment window.
125 <em>Sequence ID Tooltip</em>: Control the display of Database
126 References and Non-positional annotation in the tooltip displayed
127 when the mouse is over a sequence's ID.
130 <em>Show Unconserved</em> - When this is selected, all consensus
131 sequence symbols will be rendered as a '.', highlighting mutations
132 in highly conserved alignments.
135 <em>Sequence Name Italics</em> - select to apply the italicised
136 version of the font to sequence labels.
139 <em>Smooth Font</em> - Toggles anti-aliasing on / off for faster
140 rendering of the alignment.
143 <em>Gap Symbol</em> - The default gap symbol may be set to either
144 "-" or "."
147 <em>Wrap Alignment</em> - Select whether to open new alignment
148 windows in wrapped mode or not.
151 <em>Sort alignment by</em> - When the alignment is loaded in, it can
152 be ordered as read (No sort), or sorted by Id or pairwise identity.
155 <em>Sort annotations by</em> - Annotations can be unsorted, sorted
156 by the order of the related sequences in the alignment, or by label.
157 Autocalculated annotations (e.g. Consensus) can be shown either last
158 (below sequence annotations) or first (above sequence annotations).
159 <em>Since Jalview 2.8.2.</em>
162 <em>Open file</em> - If this is selected then the default alignment
163 file will be opened when Jalview is started. You can change the
164 default file by clicking on file name and either typing in the file
165 path or selecting it from the file chooser window.<br /> <em>Note:
166 The default example alignment is updated periodically to
167 demonstrate new features in Jalview.</em>
170 <a name="colours"><strong>"Colours"
171 Preferences tab</strong>
174 <em>Alignment Colour</em> - The default colour scheme for a new
175 alignment window. If the chosen option is "User Defined"
176 then the last User Defined Colour loaded or saved via the User
177 Defined Colours panel will be loaded.
180 <em>Annotation Shading Default</em> - set the default minimum and
181 maximum colours used when <a
182 href="../colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">Colour
183 by Annotation...</a> is selected from the alignment window's colours
187 <a name="overview"><strong>"Overview"
188 Preferences tab</strong>
191 <em>Use legacy gap colouring (gaps are white)</em> - when enabled,
192 Jalview's overview shows gaps as white, and sequences with no
193 colourscheme applied as grey.
196 <em>Show Hidden regions when opening overview</em> - default setting
197 for inclusion of hidden regions.
200 <em>Gap Colour</em> - When legacy gap colouring is not enabled, this
201 configures the default colour for gaps in the overview.
204 <em>Hidden Colour</em> - colour used to highlight regions in the
205 overview that are hidden in the alignment.
208 <a name="structure"><strong>"Structure"
209 Preferences tab</strong></a><em> added in Jalview 2.8.2</em>
212 <em>Process secondary structure from PDB</em> - if selected, then
213 structure information read from PDB will be processed and annotation
214 added to associated sequences.
216 <em>Add secondary structure annotation to alignment</em> - if
217 selected, <a href="http://swift.cmbi.ru.nl/gv/dssp/">Jmol's
218 implementation DSSP</a> will be used to add annotation to polypeptide
219 chains in the structure.
221 <em>Add Temperature Factor annotation to alignment</em> - if
222 selected, values extracted from the Temperature Factor column for
223 the backbone atoms in the PDB file will be extracted as annotation
224 lines shown on the alignment.<br/><em>Since 2.11.2, scores from the Temperature Column for structures imported via the 3D-Beacons network may be shown instead as model quality or reliability scores.</em>
226 <em><strong>Default structure viewer</strong></em> - choose Jmol, CHIMERA, CHIMERAX or PYMOL for
227 viewing 3D structures.
229 <em>Path to Chimera/X/Pymol program</em> - Optional, as Jalview will search
230 standard installation paths for Windows, Linux or MacOS. If Jalview cannot locate the installation for your selected structure viewer, a dialog will be shown. If you have
231 installed the chosen viewer in a non-standard location, you can specify it
232 here, by entering the full path to its executable.<br/>For Chimera, locate the path to the chimera program, similarly for ChimeraX and Pymol. Rather than typing in the path, you can also <em>double-click this field</em> to open a file chooser dialog.</p>
234 <em>Sequence <-> Structure Mapping Method</em> - This setting controls whether
235 Jalview attempts to retrieve mappings between Uniprot protein
236 sequences and 3D structures in the PDBe with SIFTS, or constructs a
237 mapping by conservative alignment between the sequences and chains
238 in the 3D structure data using the Needleman and Wunsch algorithm.
239 SIFTS is enabled by default.
241 <em>PDB Fields shown in Search and Structure Summaries</em> - ticks
242 in this table indicate fields shown by default when browsing results
243 of a free text search via the PDB sequence fetcher, or 3D structures
244 offered by the 3D Structure Chooser.<p>
246 <a name="connections"><strong>"Connections"
247 Preferences tab</strong></a>
250 <em>Default Browser (Unix)</em><br> It's difficult in Java to
251 detect the default web browser for Unix users. If Jalview can't find
252 your default web browser, enter the name or full path to your web
256 <em>Proxy Server</em><br>
257 There are three settings to choose from:<br>
259 <li><em>No proxy servers</em> will configure Jalview to use a
260 direct internet connection.</li>
261 <li><em>System proxy servers</em> will configure Jalview to use
262 the proxy server passed to it by your system at startup.</li>
263 <li><em>Use these proxy servers:</em> allows you to set a custom
266 If you normally use a proxy server for using the internet, you must
267 choose one of <em>System proxy servers</em>, or if these have not been
268 passed correctly you should set your own proxy servers to use by selecting
269 <em>Use these proxy servers</em>.
270 You will then need to enter the host and port details as necessary.
271 Web Services will not work if you are using a proxy server and do
272 not choose the system proxy or enter your own settings here.<br>
273 There are separate host and port settings for HTTP and HTTPS proxies.
274 Often these are the same but you should enter the host and port into both
276 You can also check the <em>Authentication required</em> box if your proxy
277 requires username and password authentication. You can enter both the
278 <em>Username</em> and <em>Password</em> but only the <em>Username</em> will
279 be stored in Jalview's preferences file, the password will only be stored
280 until the end of the current Jalview session.<br>
281 This means that if the proxy settings are still valid, Jalview will ask for
282 the password when it starts the next session.
285 <em>Usage statistics, Questionnaire and Version checks</em><br>
286 Uncheck these options to prevent Jalview from submitting usage
287 statistics to google analytics, checking for Jalview questionnaires
288 or retrieving details of the latest release version (at
289 www.jalview.org). See the <a href="../privacy.html">user privacy
290 statement</a> for more information.
293 <a name="backups"><strong>The "Backups" Preferences Tab</strong></a>
295 <p>Since Jalview 2.11.0, overwriting an existing file when saving
296 or exporting data will by default trigger a backup file to be
297 created. Several options are provided to control how backup files
298 are named, and how many old versions will be kept.</p>
300 <em>Schemes</em> - select from three default schemes <em>Single Backup</em>, <em>Keep All Versions</em>, and <em>Rolled Backup Files</em>, or choose <em>Custom</em> to enable a previously defined custom scheme.
302 <em>Custom</em> - Check this box to adjust the parameters of the currently selected scheme. Once <em>OK</em> is selected these parameters will be saved as the <em>Custom</em> scheme in your user preferences. To revert changes hit <em>Cancel</em>.
304 <p><em>Scheme Examples</em> - shows how backup files will appear according to the currently selected scheme and parameters.
306 <p><em>Deleting Old Backup Files</em> - these settings control how many backups are kept.</p>
307 <p><em>Backup filename strategy</em> - specify the naming convention for numbered backups and how they are ordered.</p>
309 <a name="links"><strong>The "Links" Preferences
313 This panel shows a table, and two sections - <em>Edit</em> and <em>Filter</em>.
314 The table shows the available URL link definitions (consisting of a
315 database, Name, and URL template string), a checkbox <em>In
316 Menu</em> which indicates if the link is enabled, and <em>Double
317 Click</em> which marks the link that will be opened if a sequence's ID
318 is double clicked. The table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.
320 <p><em>Edit Links</em><br /> This section contains three buttons,
321 <em>New</em>, <em>Edit</em> and <em>Delete</em>, which allow you to
322 create, modify and remove user-defined URL links from the Sequence
326 <em>Filter</em><br /> The <em>Filter text</em> box allows you to
327 quickly show rows in the table containing a particular text string.
328 The <em>Custom only</em> button limits the entries in the table to
329 just those you have configured yourself <em>via</em> the <em>Edit
330 Links</em> buttons. Press <em>Show all</em> to clear any filters.
332 <p>The links table is prepopulated with persistent URLs for many common
333 bioinformatics databases (since 2.10.2). These links are downloaded by Jalview from
334 the <em>identifiers.org</em> website, and the names and URLs are not
336 <a href="../webServices/urllinks.html#urllinks">Read more about configuring
340 <a name="output"><strong>Output Preferences tab</strong></a>
343 <em>EPS Rendering Style</em><br> This is a selection box which
344 allows the user to set a default rendering style for EPS export:
346 <li>"Prompt each time"<br> Choose this to be
347 asked to select between Lineart and Text each time you make an EPS
350 <li>"Lineart"<br> EPS files will accurately
351 reproduce the alignment view in Jalview and all characters will be
352 converted into line art. Files generated in this way are large and
353 are not easily editable, but have no font table dependencies.
355 <li>"Text"<br> EPS files will be a mixture of
356 text and lineart. This produces compact files that can be edited
357 easily in programs like Microsoft Word and Adobe Illustrator, but
358 can be problematic if the fonts available to Jalview are not
359 accessible by the program reading the EPS file.
362 <em>Automatically set ID width</em><br> When enabled, the
363 column containing sequence and annotation labels at the left hand
364 side of an exported figure will be made large enough to display each
365 sequence ID and annotation label in its own line. Enable this if you
366 have particularly long sequence IDs and need to generate EPS or PNG
367 figures or web pages.
370 <em>Figure ID column width</em><br> Manually specify the width
371 of the left hand column where sequence IDs and annotation labels
372 will be rendered in exported alignment figures. This setting will be
373 ignored if <em>"Automatically set ID width"</em> is set.
376 <em>Sequence/Start-End Numbering</em><br> The output tab also
377 has a group of checkboxes for each file format. If these are ticked,
378 then Jalview will write files with the start and end sequence
379 positions appended to each sequence id:
384 <p>If the boxes are left unchecked for a particular format, the
385 sequence limits will not be appended to the sequence id.</p>
387 <em>Embed BioJSON to HTML export</em>
390 When this option is enabled, Jalview embeds <a
391 href="bioJsonFormat.html">BioJSON</a> data within HTML files
392 exported from Jalview at generation time. This enables the exported
393 HTML files to be extracted and imported back into the Jalview
394 desktop application at a later time.
396 <em>Use Modeller Output</em>
399 This option only applies to PIR format output. Jalview automatically
400 reads PIR files with sequence descriptions compatible with the
401 program <a href="http://salilab.org/modeller/">Modeller</a>. If this
402 option is selected <a href="../io/modellerpir.html">Jalview will
403 write Modeller style PIR files</a> with correct start/end numbering
404 and PDB file association (if available). The Jalview id/start-end
405 option is ignored if Modeller output is selected.
407 <a name="editing"><strong>"Editing" Preferences tab</strong></a>
409 <p>There are currently three options available which can be
410 selected / deselected.</p>
412 <em>AutoCalculate Consensus</em> - For large alignments it can be
413 useful to deselect "Autocalculate Consensus" when editing.
414 This prevents lengthy calculations which are performed after each
415 sequence edit. New alignment windows will have their
416 "Autocalculate Consensus" option set according to this
420 <em>Pad Gaps when Editing</em> - New alignment windows will
421 "Pad Gaps" according to this setting.
424 <em>Sort with New Tree</em> - When selected, any trees calculated or
425 loaded onto the alignment will automatically sort the alignment.
429 <a name="startup"><strong>Startup</strong></a>
432 When Jalview is launched it by default examines the available memory
433 and requests up to 90% to be allocated to the application, or 32G,
434 which ever is smaller. The <em>Startup</em> tab allows you to adjust
435 the maximum percentage and hard limits for Jalview memory allocation
436 stored in your .jalview_properties file.
439 <em>Web Services Preferences</em> - documentation for this tab is
441 <a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html">Web Services
442 Preferences section</a>.