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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 configure Jalview's internet
50 settings and specify your default web browser.
52 <li>The <a href="#links"><strong>"Links"</strong>
53 Preferences</a> tab shows the currently configured <em>URL
54 Links</em> shown in the <strong>Link</strong> submenu in the Sequence
57 <li>The <a href="#output"><strong>"Output"</strong>
58 Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting the export of
59 sequence alignments and EPS files.
61 <li>The <a href="#editing"><strong>"Editing"</strong>
62 Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting the export of
63 sequence alignments and EPS files.
65 <li>The <a href="dassettings.html"><strong>"DAS
66 Settings"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to select which DAS
67 sources to use when fetching DAS Features.
69 <li>The <a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html"><strong>"Web
70 Service"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure the <a
71 href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws">JABAWS</a>
72 servers that Jalview uses, and change the layout of the
73 alignment's Web Services menu.
78 <strong><a name="visual">Visual</a> Preferences tab</strong>
81 <em>Maximise Window</em> - If this is selected, a new alignment
82 window will stretch to fit the available space.
85 <em>Open Overview Window</em> - When this is selected, the <a
86 href="overview.html">alignment overview</a> panel is opened
87 by default for a new alignment window.
90 <em>Show Annotations</em> - If this is selected the new window will
91 display an annotation panel below the sequences. This annotation
92 panel may have several rows describing the whole alignment. The 3
93 standard annotations <em>Conservation</em>, <em>Quality</em> and <em>Consensus</em>
94 for the alignment may be shown or hidden by default using the
98 <em>Show group: Conservation and Consensus</em> controls the display
99 of per-group automatic annotation.
102 <em>Consensus: Histogram and Logo</em> checkboxes control the
103 display of the consensus histogram and sequence logo for consensus
107 <em>Full Sequence ID</em> - If selected the ID panel will display
108 the name of a sequence plus the start and end residues in the format
109 name/start-end. If not selected, the displayed ID will be the name
113 <em>Right Align IDs</em> - select to align all sequence IDs to the
114 left-hand edge of the sequence alignment, rather than the left-hand
115 edge of the alignment display window.
118 <em>Font</em> - The default font name, size and style can be set for
119 a new alignment window.
122 <em>Sequence ID Tooltip</em>: Control the display of Database
123 References and Non-positional annotation in the tooltip displayed
124 when the mouse is over a sequence's ID.
127 <em>Show Unconserved</em> - When this is selected, all consensus
128 sequence symbols will be rendered as a '.', highlighting mutations
129 in highly conserved alignments.
132 <em>Sequence Name Italics</em> - select to apply the italicised
133 version of the font to sequence labels.
136 <em>Smooth Font</em> - Toggles anti-aliasing on / off for faster
137 rendering of the alignment.
140 <em>Gap Symbol</em> - The default gap symbol may be set to either
141 "-" or "."
144 <em>Wrap Alignment</em> - Select whether to open new alignment
145 windows in wrapped mode or not.
148 <em>Sort alignment by</em> - When the alignment is loaded in, it can
149 be ordered as read (No sort), or sorted by Id or pairwise identity.
152 <em>Sort annotations by</em> - Annotations can be unsorted, sorted
153 by the order of the related sequences in the alignment, or by label.
154 Autocalculated annotations (e.g. Consensus) can be shown either last
155 (below sequence annotations) or first (above sequence annotations).
156 <em>Since Jalview 2.8.2.</em>
159 <em>Open file</em> - If this is selected then the default alignment
160 file will be opened when Jalview is started. You can change the
161 default file by clicking on file name and either typing in the file
162 path or selecting it from the file chooser window.<br /> <em>Note:
163 The default example alignment is updated periodically to
164 demonstrate new features in Jalview.</em>
167 <a name="colours"><strong>"Colours"
168 Preferences tab</strong>
171 <em>Alignment Colour</em> - The default colour scheme for a new
172 alignment window. If the chosen option is "User Defined"
173 then the last User Defined Colour loaded or saved via the User
174 Defined Colours panel will be loaded.
177 <em>Annotation Shading Default</em> - set the default minimum and
178 maximum colours used when <a
179 href="../colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">Colour
180 by Annotation...</a> is selected from the alignment window's colours
184 <a name="structure"><strong>"Structure"
185 Preferences tab</strong></a><em> added in Jalview 2.8.2</em>
188 <em>Process secondary structure from PDB</em> - if selected, then
189 structure information read from PDB will be processed and annotation
190 added to associated sequences.
192 <em>Use RNAView for secondary structure</em> - if selected, the
193 pyRNA RNAView service (<a href="https://github.com/fjossinet/PyRNA">https://github.com/fjossinet/PyRNA</a>)
194 will be called to derive secondary structure information for RNA
197 <em>Add secondary structure annotation to alignment</em> - if
198 selected, <a href="http://swift.cmbi.ru.nl/gv/dssp/">Jmol's
199 implementation DSSP</a> will be used to add annotation to polypeptide
200 chains in the structure.
202 <em>Add Temperature Factor annotation to alignment</em> - if
203 selected, values extracted from the Temperature Factor column for
204 the backbone atoms in the PDB file will be extracted as annotation
205 lines shown on the alignment.
207 <em>Default structure viewer</em> - choose JMOL or CHIMERA for
208 viewing 3D structures.
210 <em>Path to Chimera program</em> - Optional, as Jalview will search
211 standard installation paths for Windows, Linux or MacOS. If you have
212 installed Chimera in a non-standard location, you can specify it
213 here, by entering the full path to the Chimera executable program.
214 Double-click this field to open a file chooser dialog.
216 <a name="connections"><strong>"Connections"
217 Preferences tab</strong></a>
220 <em>Default Browser (Unix)</em><br> Its difficult in Java to
221 detect the default web browser for Unix users. If Jalview can't find
222 your default web browser, enter the name or full path to your web
226 <em>Proxy Server</em><br> If you normally use a proxy server
227 for using the internet, you must tick the box "Use a Proxy
228 Server" and enter the address and port details as necessary.
229 Web Services will not work if you are using a proxy server and do
230 not enter the settings here.
233 <em>Usage statistics, Questionnaire and Version checks</em><br>
234 Uncheck these options to prevent Jalview from submitting usage
235 statistics to google analytics, checking for Jalview questionnaires
236 or retrieving details of the latest release version (at
237 www.jalview.org). See the <a href="../privacy.html">user privacy
238 statement</a> for more information.
241 <a name="links"><strong>The "Links" Preferences
245 This panel shows a table, and two sections - <em>Edit</em> and <em>Filter</em>.
246 The table shows the available URL link definitions (consisting of a
247 database, Name, and URL template string), a checkbox <em>In
248 Menu</em> which indicates if the link is enabled, and <em>Double
249 Click</em> which marks the link that will be opened if a sequence's ID
250 is double clicked. The table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.
252 <p><em>Edit Links</em><br /> This section contains three buttons,
253 <em>New</em>, <em>Edit</em> and <em>Delete</em>, which allow you to
254 create, modify and remove user-defined URL links from the Sequence
258 <em>Filter</em><br /> The <em>Filter text</em> box allows you to
259 quickly show rows in the table containing a particular text string.
260 The <em>Custom only</em> button limits the entries in the table to
261 just those you have configured yourself <em>via</em> the <em>Edit
262 Links</em> buttons. Press <em>Show all</em> to clear any filters.
264 <a href="../webServices/urllinks.html#urllinks">Read more about configuring
268 <a name="output"><strong>Output Preferences tab</strong></a>
271 <em>EPS Rendering Style</em><br> This is a selection box which
272 allows the user to set a default rendering style for EPS export:
274 <li>"Prompt each time"<br> Choose this to be
275 asked select between Lineart and Text each time you make an EPS
278 <li>"Lineart"<br> EPS files will accurately
279 reproduce the alignment view in Jalview and all characters will be
280 converted into line art. Files generated in this way are large and
281 are not easily editable, but have no font table dependencies.
283 <li>"Text"<br> EPS files will be a mixture of
284 text and lineart. This produces compact files that can be edited
285 easily in programs like Microsoft Word and Adobe Illustrator, but
286 can be problematic if the fonts available to Jalview are not
287 accessible by the program reading the EPS file.
290 <em>Automatically set ID width</em><br> When enabled, the
291 column containing sequence and annotation labels at the left hand
292 side of an exported figure will be made large enough to display each
293 sequence ID and annotation label in its own line. Enable this if you
294 have particularly long sequence IDs and need to generate EPS or PNG
295 figures or web pages.
298 <em>Figure ID column width</em><br> Manually specify the width
299 of the left hand column where sequence IDs and annotation labels
300 will be rendered in exported alignment figures. This setting will be
301 ignored if <em>"Automatically set ID width"</em> is set.
304 <em>Sequence//Start-End Numbering</em><br> The output tab also
305 has a group of checkboxes for each file format. If these are ticked,
306 then Jalview will write files with the start and end sequence
307 positions appended to each sequence id:
312 <p>If the boxes are left unchecked for a particular format, the
313 sequence limits will not be appended to the sequence id.</p>
315 <em>Embed BioJSON to HTML export</em>
318 When this option is enabled, Jalview embeds <a
319 href="bioJsonFormat.html">BioJSON</a> data within HTML files
320 exported from Jalview at generation time. This enables the exported
321 HTML files to be extracted and imported back into the Jalview
322 desktop application at a later time.
324 <em>Use Modeller Output</em>
327 This option only applies to PIR format output. Jalview automatically
328 reads PIR files with sequence descriptions compatible with the
329 program <a href="http://salilab.org/modeller/">Modeller</a>. If this
330 option is selected <a href="../io/modellerpir.html">Jalview will
331 write Modeller style PIR files</a> with correct start/end numbering
332 and PDB file association (if available). The Jalview id/start-end
333 option is ignored if Modeller output is selected.
335 <a name="editing"><strong>e"Editinge" Preferences tab</strong></a>
337 <p>There are currently three options available which can be
338 selected / deselected.</p>
340 <em>AutoCalculate Consensus</em> - For large alignments it can be
341 useful to deselect "Autocalculate Consensus" when editing.
342 This prevents lengthy calculations which are performed after each
343 sequence edit. New alignment windows will have their
344 "Autocalculate Consensus" option set according to this
348 <em>Pad Gaps when Editing</em> - New alignment windows will
349 "Pad Gaps" according to this setting.
352 <em>Sort with New Tree</em> - When selected, any trees calculated or
353 loaded onto the alignment will automatically sort the alignment.