2 <head><title>Input/Output</title></head>
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4 <p><strong>Input</strong></p>
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5 <p>Jalview can read alignment files in any of the following standard formats:</p>
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6 <p><em>Fasta (Pearson), GCG-MSF, ALN/ClustalW, AMPS Block file,
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7 NBRF/PIR (including MODELLER variant), Pfam/Stockholm</em></p>
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8 <p>The EBI has <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/help/formats.html">examples</a> of
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9 these file formats.</p>
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10 <p>Additionally, annotated whole sets of alignments and trees can be
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11 read from a <a href="../features/jalarchive.html">Jalview (jar)
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12 format</a> file using <strong>Desktop→Load
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13 Project</strong>. </p>
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14 <p>Use the <strong>Desktop→Input Alignment</strong> menu to read in files from:</p>
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16 <li><strong>From File</strong>: the local file system</li>
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17 <li><strong>From URL</strong>: the web (please use the full url)</li>
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18 <li><strong>from Textbox</strong>: a copy and paste into the
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19 "Cut & Paste" text window</li>
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21 <p>Jalview will try to recognise the file type automatically (using
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22 some special <a href="fileformats.html">features</a>). If a
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23 file is of an unknown format or there is any other error reading the
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24 alignment file then you will be given an error message. If you think
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25 Jalview really should be able to read your file, then send an email
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26 containing the problem file to jalview@jalview.org.
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28 <p>Jalview can also read jalview specific files for <a href="../features/featuresFormat.html">sequence features</a>
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29 and <a href="../features/annotationsFormat.html">alignment annotation</a>.</p>
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30 <p><strong>Output</strong> </p>
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31 <p>Each alignment, whether it is the original or an edited version may be saved
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32 in the standard formats using <strong>File→Save As</strong></p>
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33 <p><em>Fasta (Pearson), GCG-MSF, ALN/ClustalW, AMPS Block file, NBRF/PIR, Pfam/Stockholm</em></p>
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34 Jalview will by default append the sequence start and end to each sequence name,
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35 in the format /start-end. If you do not want this behaviour for a particular file
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36 output, open the "Output" tab on the <a href="../features/preferences.html">Preferences</a> window where you can
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37 select which file formats you want to append the start and end sequence positions
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38 for. In the case of PIR format, the output tab also contains a switch
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39 for turning on the output of Modeller style structured description
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41 <p>Quantitative and symbolic <a href="../features/annotation.html">alignment annotation</a> can be exported as a
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42 comma separated value file by right clicking on an annotation row
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43 under the alignment.</p>
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44 <p>You can also save the current set of alignments and their colours, annotations and
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45 trees in a Jalview archive file using <strong>Desktop→Save project</strong>. </p>
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