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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="#structure"><strong>"Structure"</strong>
45 Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure options for obtaining
46 and displaying structure information.
48 <li>The <a href="#connections"><strong>"Connections"</strong>
49 Preferences</a> tab allows you to change the links made from Jalview
50 to your default web browser.
52 <li>The <a href="#output"><strong>"Output"</strong>
53 Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting the export of
54 sequence alignments and EPS files.
56 <li>The <a href="#editing"><strong>"Editing"</strong>
57 Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting the export of
58 sequence alignments and EPS files.
60 <li>The <a href="dassettings.html"><strong>"DAS
61 Settings"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to select which DAS
62 sources to use when fetching DAS Features.
64 <li>The <a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html"><strong>"Web
65 Service"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure the <a
66 href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws"
67 >JABAWS</a> servers that Jalview uses, and change the layout of the
68 alignment's Web Services menu.
73 <strong><a name="visual">Visual</a> Preferences tab</strong>
76 <em>Maximise Window</em> - If this is selected, a new alignment
77 window will stretch to fit the available space.
80 <em>Open Overview Window</em> - When this is selected, the <a
82 >alignment overview</a> panel is opened by default for a new alignment
86 <em>Show Annotations</em> - If this is selected the new window will
87 display an annotation panel below the sequences. This annotation
88 panel may have several rows describing the whole alignment. The 3
89 standard annotations <em>Conservation</em>, <em>Quality</em> and <em>Consensus</em>
90 for the alignment may be shown or hidden by default using the
94 <em>Show group: Conservation and Consensus</em> controls the display
95 of per-group automatic annotation.
98 <em>Consensus: Histogram and Logo</em> checkboxes control the
99 display of the consensus histogram and sequence logo for consensus
103 <em>Full Sequence ID</em> - If selected the ID panel will display
104 the name of a sequence plus the start and end residues in the format
105 name/start-end. If not selected, the displayed ID will be the name
109 <em>Right Align IDs</em> - select to align all sequence IDs to the
110 left-hand edge of the sequence alignment, rather than the left-hand
111 edge of the alignment display window.
114 <em>Font</em> - The default font name, size and style can be set for
115 a new alignment window.
118 <em>Sequence ID Tooltip</em>: Control the display of Database
119 References and Non-positional annotation in the tooltip displayed
120 when the mouse is over a sequence's ID.
123 <em>Show Unconserved</em> - When this is selected, all consensus
124 sequence symbols will be rendered as a '.', highlighting mutations
125 in highly conserved alignments.
128 <em>Sequence Name Italics</em> - select to apply the italicised
129 version of the font to sequence labels.
132 <em>Smooth Font</em> - Toggles anti-aliasing on / off for faster
133 rendering of the alignment.
136 <em>Gap Symbol</em> - The default gap symbol may be set to either
137 "-" or "."
140 <em>Wrap Alignment</em> - Select whether to open new alignment
141 windows in wrapped mode or not.
144 <em>Sort alignment by</em> - When the alignment is loaded in, it can
145 be ordered as read (No sort), or sorted by Id or pairwise identity.
148 <em>Sort annotations by</em> - Annotations can be unsorted, sorted
149 by the order of the related sequences in the alignment, or by label.
150 Autocalculated annotations (e.g. Consensus) can be shown either last
151 (below sequence annotations) or first (above sequence annotations).
152 <em>Since Jalview 2.8.2.</em>
155 <em>Open file</em> - If this is selected then the default alignment
156 file will be opened when Jalview is started. You can change the
157 default file by clicking on file name and either typing in the file
158 path or selecting it from the file chooser window.<br />
159 <em>Note: The default example alignment is updated periodically
160 to demonstrate new features in Jalview.</em>
163 <a name="colours"><strong>"Colours"
164 Preferences tab</strong>
167 <em>Alignment Colour</em> - The default colour scheme for a new
168 alignment window. If the chosen option is "User Defined"
169 then the last User Defined Colour loaded or saved via the User
170 Defined Colours panel will be loaded.
173 <em>Annotation Shading Default</em> - set the default minimum and
174 maximum colours used when <a
175 href="../colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html"
176 >Colour by Annotation...</a> is selected from the alignment window's
180 <a name="structure"><strong>"Structure"
181 Preferences tab</strong></a><em> added in Jalview 2.8.2</em>
184 <em>Process secondary structure from PDB</em> - if selected, then
185 structure information read from PDB will be processed and annotation
186 added to associated sequences.
188 <em>Use RNAView for secondary structure</em> - if selected, the
189 pyRNA RNAView service (<a href="https://github.com/fjossinet/PyRNA">https://github.com/fjossinet/PyRNA</a>)
190 will be called to derive secondary structure information for RNA
193 <em>Add secondary structure annotation to alignment</em> - if
194 selected, <a href="http://swift.cmbi.ru.nl/gv/dssp/">Jmol's
195 implementation DSSP</a> will be used to add annotation to polypeptide
196 chains in the structure.
198 <em>Add Temperature Factor annotation to alignment</em> - if
199 selected, values extracted from the Temperature Factor column for
200 the backbone atoms in the PDB file will be extracted as annotation
201 lines shown on the alignment.
203 <em>Default structure viewer</em> - choose JMOL or CHIMERA for
204 viewing 3D structures.
206 <em>Path to Chimera program</em> - Optional, as Jalview will search
207 standard installation paths for Windows, Linux or MacOS. If you have
208 installed Chimera in a non-standard location, you can specify it
209 here, by entering the full path to the Chimera executable program.
210 Double-click this field to open a file chooser dialog.
212 <a name="connections"><strong>"Connections"
213 Preferences tab</strong></a>
216 <em>URL Link From Sequence ID</em><br> These definitions are
217 used to generate URLs from a sequence's ID or database cross
218 references. Read more about <a
219 href="../webServices/urllinks.html#urllinks"
220 >configuring URL links here</a>.
223 <em>Default Browser (Unix)</em><br> Its difficult in Java to
224 detect the default web browser for Unix users. If Jalview can't find
225 your default web browser, enter the name or full path to your web
229 <em>Proxy Server</em><br> If you normally use a proxy server
230 for using the internet, you must tick the box "Use a Proxy
231 Server" and enter the address and port details as necessary.
232 Web Services will not work if you are using a proxy server and do
233 not enter the settings here.
236 <em>Usage statistics, Questionnaire and Version checks</em><br>
237 Uncheck these options to prevent Jalview from submitting usage
238 statistics to google analytics, checking for Jalview questionnaires
239 or retrieving details of the latest release version (at
240 www.jalview.org). See the <a href="../privacy.html">user privacy
241 statement</a> for more information.
244 <a name="output"><strong>Output Preferences tab</strong></a>
247 <em>EPS Rendering Style</em><br> This is a selection box which
248 allows the user to set a default rendering style for EPS export:
250 <li>"Prompt each time"<br> Choose this to be
251 asked select between Lineart and Text each time you make an EPS
254 <li>"Lineart"<br> EPS files will accurately
255 reproduce the alignment view in Jalview and all characters will be
256 converted into line art. Files generated in this way are large and
257 are not easily editable, but have no font table dependencies.
259 <li>"Text"<br> EPS files will be a mixture of
260 text and lineart. This produces compact files that can be edited
261 easily in programs like Microsoft Word and Adobe Illustrator, but
262 can be problematic if the fonts available to Jalview are not
263 accessible by the program reading the EPS file.
266 <em>Automatically set ID width</em><br> When enabled, the
267 column containing sequence and annotation labels at the left hand
268 side of an exported figure will be made large enough to display each
269 sequence ID and annotation label in its own line. Enable this if you
270 have particularly long sequence IDs and need to generate EPS or PNG
271 figures or web pages.
274 <em>Figure ID column width</em><br> Manually specify the width
275 of the left hand column where sequence IDs and annotation labels
276 will be rendered in exported alignment figures. This setting will be
277 ignored if <em>"Automatically set ID width"</em> is set.
280 <em>Sequence//Start-End Numbering</em><br> The output tab also
281 has a group of checkboxes for each file format. If these are ticked,
282 then Jalview will write files with the start and end sequence
283 positions appended to each sequence id:
288 <p>If the boxes are left unchecked for a particular format, the
289 sequence limits will not be appended to the sequence id.</p>
291 <em>Embed BioJSON to HTML export</em>
294 When this option is enabled, Jalview embeds <a
295 href="bioJsonFormat.html"
296 >BioJSON</a> data within HTML files exported from Jalview at
297 generation time. This enables the exported HTML files to be
298 extracted and imported back into the Jalview desktop application at
301 <em>Use Modeller Output</em>
304 This option only applies to PIR format output. Jalview automatically
305 reads PIR files with sequence descriptions compatible with the
306 program <a href="http://salilab.org/modeller/">Modeller</a>. If this
307 option is selected <a href="../io/modellerpir.html">Jalview will
308 write Modeller style PIR files</a> with correct start/end numbering
309 and PDB file association (if available). The Jalview id/start-end
310 option is ignored if Modeller output is selected.
312 <a name="editing"><strong>Editing Preferences tab</strong></a>
314 <p>There are currently three options available which can be
315 selected / deselected.</p>
317 <em>AutoCalculate Consensus</em> - For large alignments it can be
318 useful to deselect "Autocalculate Consensus" when editing.
319 This prevents lengthy calculations which are performed after each
320 sequence edit. New alignment windows will have their
321 "Autocalculate Consensus" option set according to this
325 <em>Pad Gaps when Editing</em> - New alignment windows will
326 "Pad Gaps" according to this setting.
329 <em>Sort with New Tree</em> - When selected, any trees calculated or
330 loaded onto the alignment will automatically sort the alignment.