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21 <title>Input/Output</title>
24 <p><strong>Input</strong></p>
25 <p>Jalview can read alignment files in any of the following standard
27 <p><em>Fasta (Pearson), GCG-MSF, ALN/ClustalW, AMPS Block file,
28 NBRF/PIR (including MODELLER variant), Pfam/Stockholm</em></p>
29 <p>The EBI has <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/help/formats.html">examples</a>
30 of these file formats.</p>
31 <p>Additionally, whole sets of coloured and annotated alignments and
32 trees can be read from a <a href="../features/jalarchive.html">Jalview
33 (jar) format</a> file using <strong>Desktop→Load Project</strong>.</p>
34 <p>Press "Control O" to open a file browser, or use
35 the <strong>Desktop→Input Alignment</strong> menu to read in
38 <li><strong>From File</strong>: the local file system</li>
39 <li><strong>From URL</strong>: the web (please use the full url)</li>
40 <li><strong>from Textbox</strong>: a copy and paste into the
41 "Cut & Paste" text window</li>
43 <p>Jalview will try to recognise the file type automatically (using
44 some special <a href="fileformats.html">features</a>). If a file is of
45 an unknown format or there is any other error reading the alignment file
46 then you will be given an error message. If you think Jalview really
47 should be able to read your file, then send an email containing the
48 problem file to help@jalview.org.</p>
49 <p>Jalview can also read jalview specific files for <a
50 href="../features/featuresFormat.html">sequence features</a> and <a
51 href="../features/annotationsFormat.html">alignment annotation</a>.</p>
52 <p><strong>Output</strong></p>
53 <p>Each alignment, whether it is the original or an edited version
54 may be saved in the standard formats using <strong>File→Save
56 <p><em>Fasta (Pearson), GCG-MSF, ALN/ClustalW, AMPS Block file,
57 NBRF/PIR, Pfam/Stockholm</em></p>
58 Jalview will by default append the sequence start and end to each
59 sequence name, in the format /start-end. If you do not want this
60 behaviour for a particular file output, open the "Output" tab
62 <a href="../features/preferences.html">Preferences</a>
63 window where you can select which file formats you want to append the
64 start and end sequence positions for. In the case of PIR format, the
65 output tab also contains a switch for turning on the output of Modeller
66 style structured description lines.
67 <p>Quantitative and symbolic <a href="../features/annotation.html">alignment
68 annotation</a> can be exported as a comma separated value file by right
69 clicking on an annotation row under the alignment.</p>
70 <p>You can also save the current set of alignments and their
71 colours, annotations and trees in a Jalview archive file using <strong>Desktop→Save