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23 <title>DAS Settings</title>
28 <strong>DAS Settings</strong>
31 Jalview can retrieve sequences and features from many <a
32 href="http://biodas.org/"
33 >DAS</a> sources. The DAS sources that it uses are discovered and
34 selected <em>via</em> the DAS settings panel, opened either from the
35 <a href="featuresettings.html">View→Feature Settings</a>
36 dialog box from the alignment window's menu bar, or the <a
37 href="featuresettings.html"
38 >Tools→Preferences</a> dialog box opened from the Desktop menu
43 <p>The available sources are listed in the table using each
44 source's Nickname as its identifier. Clicking on a source's entry in
45 the table reveals more information about that service in the panel
46 to the right. Select the tickbox in the "Use Source"
47 column for a source to add it to the set Jalview queries for
48 alignment and sequence features.</p>
49 <p>You can filter the visible DAS sources by authority, type and
50 "label". You should read the DAS documentation to
51 understand more about these values.
53 <strong>Updating the list of sources</strong>
56 When the DAS Settings panel is first opened, and when the <strong>'Refresh
57 source'</strong> buton is pressed, a list of DAS sources is retrieved from
58 the DAS registry URL. Note that the registry hosted at
59 http://www.dasregistry.org/das/ was retired at the start of 2015. An
60 alternative service is currently hosted at
61 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/registry/das/. To connect to this
62 service, ensure your .jalview_properties file includes the following
63 line:<br> <b>DAS_REGISTRY_URL=http\://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/registry/das/</b>
66 <strong>Adding your own DAS Sources</strong>
68 <p>You can add your own DAS source to the list by clicking the
69 "Add Local Source" button. Enter the URL and nickname of
70 your additional service. It should be noted that Jalview 2.1 will
71 not query additional sources for more information, but this will be
72 implemented in future editions.