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22 <title>Jalview Command Line Arguments</title>
25 <strong>The Jalview Executable's Command Line Arguments</strong>
28 <a href="commandline.html">running Jalview from the command line</a>
31 <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
33 <td width="27%"><div align="center">-nodisplay</div></td>
34 <td width="73%"><div align="left">Run Jalview without
35 User Interface. (automatically disables questionnaire, version
36 and usage stats checks)</div></td>
40 <td><div align="center">-props FILE/URL</div></td>
41 <td><div align="left">Use the given Jalview properties
42 file instead of users default.</div></td>
45 <td><div align="center">-features FILE/URL</div></td>
46 <td><div align="left">
48 Use the given file to add sequence features to an alignment.
49 See <a href="featuresFormat.html" target="NEW">Features
50 File</a> (Known as Groups file prior to 2.08) description.
57 <div align="center">-colour COLOURSCHEME</div>
59 <td>Set the colourscheme for the alignment. This can be any
60 of the built-in colourschemes, a name of a predefined
61 colourscheme (defined in the Jalview properties file), or an
62 'inline' colourscheme (see the applet's colour parameter for
63 more information).</td>
67 <div align="center">-annotations FILE/URL</div>
69 <td>Add precalculated annotations to the alignment. See <a
70 href="annotationsFormat.html" target="NEW">Annotation
76 <div align="center">-tree FILE/URL</div>
78 <div align="left">Load the given newick format tree file
79 onto the alignment</div>
84 <div align="center">-questionnaire URL</div>
86 <div align="left">Queries the given URL for information
87 about any Jalview user questionnaires</div>
92 <div align="center">-noquestionnaire</div>
94 <div align="left">Turn off questionnaire check</div>
99 <div align="center">-nonews</div>
102 Disable check for <a href="../webServices/newsreader.html">Jalview
103 news</a> on startup (not recommended other than for classroom /
110 <div align="center">-nousagestats</div>
112 <div align="left">Turn off google analytics usage tracking</div>
117 <div align="center">-[no]sortbytree</div>
119 <div align="left">Enable or disable automatic sorting of
120 associated view when a new tree is displayed</div>
125 <div align="center">-dasserver nickname=URL</div>
128 Add and enable a <a href="dassettings.html">DAS server</a>
129 with given nickname (alphanumeric or underscores only) for
130 retrieval of features for all alignments<br> Sources that
131 also support the sequence command may be specified by
132 prepending the URL with 'sequence:'<br> <em>e.g.</em>
133 sequence:http://localdas.somewhere.org/das/source
139 <div align="center">-fetchfrom nickname</div>
142 Query a <a href="dassettings.html">DAS source</a> called
143 nickname for features for the alignments and display them
149 <div align="center">-groovy FILE/URL</div>
151 <div align="left">Execute groovy script in FILE (where
152 FILE may be 'STDIN' to read from the standard input) after all
153 other arguments have been processed</div>
158 <div align="center">-jabaws URL</div>
160 <div align="left">Specify the URL of the preferred JABAWS
166 <div align="center">-vdoc VAMSAS DOCUMENT FILE/URL</div>
169 Import the given vamsas document into a new session.<br>
176 <div align="center">-vsess VAMSAS SESSION URL</div>
179 Join the given vamsas session<br>If a document was also
180 specified, this will be imported first and then committed as
181 new data from Jalview to the specified session (Experimental -
182 not yet enabled!).<em>New in 2.5</em>
189 <div align="center">-fasta FILE</div>
193 <div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in Fasta
198 <td><div align="center">-clustal FILE</div></td>
199 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
200 Clustal format.</div></td>
203 <td><div align="center">-msf FILE</div></td>
205 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in MSF
209 <td><div align="center">-pileup FILE</div></td>
210 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
211 Pileup format.</div></td>
214 <td><div align="center">-pir FILE</div></td>
216 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in PIR
220 <td><div align="center">-pfam FILE</div></td>
221 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
222 PFAM format.</div></td>
225 <td><div align="center">-blc FILE</div></td>
226 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in BLC
230 <td><div align="center">-json FILE</div></td>
231 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
232 JSON format.</div></td>
235 <td><div align="center">-jalview FILE</div></td>
237 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
238 Jalview format.</div></td>
241 <td><div align="center">-png FILE</div></td>
242 <td><div align="left">Create PNG image FILE from
243 alignment.</div></td>
246 <td><div align="center">-imgMap FILE</div></td>
248 <td><div align="left">Create HTML file FILE with image
249 map of PNG image.</div></td>
252 <td><div align="center">-eps FILE</div></td>
253 <td><div align="left">Create EPS file FILE from
254 alignment.</div></td>
257 <td><div align="center">-svg FILE</div></td>
258 <td><div align="left">Create Scalable Vector Graphics
259 file FILE from alignment.</div></td>
262 <td><div align="center">-biojsMSA FILE</div></td>
263 <td><div align="left">Write an HTML page to display
264 the alignment with the <a href="biojsmsa.html">
265 BioJS MSAviewer MSA</a>