3 <title>Alignment Window Menus</title>
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7 <p><strong>Alignment Window Menus</strong></p>
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8 <li><strong>File</strong>
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10 <li><strong>Fetch Sequence</strong><br>
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11 <em>Shows a dialog window in which you can select known ids from
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12 Uniprot, EMBL, EMBLCDS or PDB database using Web Services provided by
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13 the European Bioinformatics Institute. See <a
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14 href="../features/seqfetch.html">Sequence Fetcher</a></em>.</li>
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15 <li><strong>Add Sequences</strong><em><br>
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16 Add sequences to the visible alignment from file, URL, or cut &
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17 paste window </em></li>
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18 <li><strong>Reload</strong><em><br>
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19 Reloads the alignment from the original file, if available.<br>
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20 <strong>Warning: This will delete any edits, analyses and
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21 colourings applied since the alignment was last saved, and cannot be
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22 undone.</strong></em></li>
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23 <li><strong>Save (Control S)</strong><em><br>
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24 Saves the alignment to the file it was loaded from (if available), in
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25 the same format, updating the original in place. </em></li>
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26 <li><strong>Save As (Control Shift S)<br>
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27 </strong><em>Save the alignment to local file. A file selection window
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28 will open, use the "Files of type:" selection box to
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29 determine which <a href="../io/index.html">alignment format</a> to
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31 <li><strong>Output to Textbox<br>
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32 </strong><em>The alignment will be displayed in plain text in a new
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33 window, which you can "Copy and Paste" using the pull down
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34 menu, or your standard operating system copy and paste keys. The
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35 output window also has a <strong>"New Window"</strong>
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36 button to import the (possibly edited) text as a new alignment.<br>
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37 Select the format of the text by selecting one of the following menu
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40 <li><strong>FASTA</strong> <em></em></li>
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41 <li><strong>MSF</strong></li>
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42 <li><strong>CLUSTAL</strong></li>
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43 <li><strong>BLC</strong></li>
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44 <li><strong>PIR</strong></li>
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45 <li><strong>PFAM</strong></li>
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48 <li><strong>Print (Control P)<br>
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49 </strong><em>Jalview will print the alignment using the current fonts and
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50 colours of your alignment. If the alignment has annotations visible,
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51 these will be printed below the alignment. If the alignment is wrapped
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52 the number of residues per line of your alignment will depend on the
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53 paper width or your alignment window width, whichever is the smaller.
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55 <li><strong>Export Image</strong> <em><br>
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56 Creates an alignment graphic with the current view's annotation,
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57 alignment background colours and group colours. If the alignment is <a
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58 href="../features/wrap.html">wrapped</a>, the output will also be
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59 wrapped and will have the same visible residue width as the open
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62 <li><strong>HTML<br>
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63 </strong><em>Create a <a href="../io/export.html">web page</a> from your
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64 alignment.</em></li>
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66 </strong><em>Create an <a href="../io/export.html">Encapsulated
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67 Postscript</a> file from your alignment.</em></li>
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69 </strong><em>Create a <a href="../io/export.html">Portable Network
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70 Graphics</a> file from your alignment.</em></li>
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73 <li><strong>Export Features</strong><em><br>
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74 All features visible on the alignment can be saved to file or
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75 displayed in a textbox in either Jalview or GFF format</em></li>
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76 <li><strong>Export Annotations</strong><em><br>
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77 All annotations visible on the alignment can be saved to file or
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78 displayed in a textbox in Jalview annotations format. </em></li>
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79 <li><strong>Load Associated Tree<br>
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80 </strong><em>Jalview can <a href="../calculations/treeviewer.html">view
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81 trees</a> stored in the Newick file format, and associate them with the
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82 alignment. Note: the ids of the tree file and your alignment MUST be
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84 <li><strong>Load Features / Annotations<br>
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85 </strong><em>Load files describing precalculated <a
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86 href="../features/featuresFormat.html">sequence features</a> or <a
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87 href="../features/annotationsFormat.html">alignment annotations</a>.</em></li>
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88 <li><strong>Close (Control W)</strong><br>
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89 <em>Close the alignment window. Make sure you have saved your
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90 alignment before you close - either as a Jalview project or by using
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91 the <strong>Save As</strong> menu.</em></li>
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94 <li><strong>Edit</strong>
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96 <li><strong>Undo (Control Z)</strong><em><br>
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97 This will undo any edits you make to the alignment. This applies to
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98 insertion or deletion of gaps, cutting residues or sequences from the
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99 alignment or pasting sequences to the current alignment or sorting the
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100 alignment. <strong>NOTE:</strong> It DOES NOT undo colour changes,
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101 adjustments to group sizes, or changes to the annotation panel. </em></li>
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102 <li><strong>Redo (Control Y)<br>
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103 </strong><em>Any actions which you undo can be redone using redo. </em></li>
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104 <li><strong>Cut (Control X)<br>
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105 </strong><em>This will make a copy of the currently selected residues
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106 before removing them from your alignment. Click on a sequence name if
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107 you wish to select a whole sequence. <br>
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108 Use <CTRL> and X (<APPLE> and X on MacOSX) to cut.</em></li>
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109 <li><strong>Copy (Control C)</strong><br>
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110 <em>Copies the currently selected residues to the system
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111 clipboard - you can also do this by pressing <CTRL> and C
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112 (<APPLE> and C on MacOSX). <br>
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113 If you try to paste the clipboard contents to a text editor, you will
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114 see the format of the copied residues FASTA.</em></li>
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115 <li><strong>Paste </strong>
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117 <li><strong>To New Alignment (Control Shift V)<br>
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118 </strong><em>A new alignment window will be created from sequences
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119 previously copied or cut to the system clipboard. <br>
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120 Use <CTRL> and <SHIFT> and V(<APPLE> and
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121 <SHIFT;> and and V on MacOSX) to paste.</em></li>
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122 <li><strong>Add To This Alignment (Control V)<br>
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123 </strong><em>Copied sequences from another alignment window can be added
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124 to the current Jalview alignment. </em></li>
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127 <li><strong>Delete (Backspace)<br>
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128 </strong><em>This will delete the currently selected residues without
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129 copying them to the clipboard. Like the other edit operations, this
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130 can be undone with <strong>Undo</strong>.</em></li>
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131 <li><strong>Remove Left (Control L)<br>
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132 </strong><em>If the alignment has marked columns, the alignment will be
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133 trimmed to the left of the leftmost marked column. To mark a column,
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134 mouse click the scale bar above the alignment. Click again to unmark a
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135 column, or select "Deselect All" to deselect all columns.</em></li>
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136 <li><strong>Remove Right (Control R)<br>
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137 </strong><em>If the alignment has marked columns, the alignment will be
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138 trimmed to the left of the leftmost marked column. To mark a column,
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139 mouse click the scale bar above the alignment. Click again to unmark a
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140 column, or select "Deselect All" to deselect all columns.</em></li>
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141 <li><strong>Remove Empty Columns (Control E)<br>
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142 </strong><em>All columns which only contain gap characters ("-",
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143 ".") will be deleted.<br>
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144 You may set the default gap character in <a
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145 href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. </em></li>
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146 <li><strong>Remove All Gaps (Control Shift E)</strong><br>
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147 <em>Gap characters ("-", ".") will be deleted
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148 from the selected area of the alignment. If no selection is made, ALL
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149 the gaps in the alignment will be removed.<br>
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150 You may set the default gap character in <a
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151 href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. </em></li>
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152 <li><strong>Remove Redundancy (Control D)<br>
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153 </strong><em>Selecting this option brings up a window asking you to select
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154 a threshold. If the percentage identity between any two sequences
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155 (under the current alignment) exceeds this value then one of the
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156 sequences (the shorter) is discarded. Press the "Apply"
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157 button to remove redundant sequences. The "Undo" button will
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158 undo the last redundancy deletion.</em></li>
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159 <li><strong>Pad Gaps<br>
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160 </strong><em>When selected, the alignment will be kept at minimal width
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161 (so there no empty columns before or after the first or last aligned
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162 residue) and all sequences will be padded with gap characters to the
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163 before and after their terminating residues.<br>
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164 This switch is useful when making a tree using unaligned sequences and
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165 when working with alignment analysis programs which require 'properly
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166 aligned sequences' to be all the same length.<br>
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167 You may set the default for <strong>Pad Gaps</strong> in the <a
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168 href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. </em></li>
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171 <li><strong>Select</strong>
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173 <li><strong><a href="../features/search.html">Find...
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174 (Control F)</a></strong><em><br>
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175 Opens the Find dialog box to search for residues, sequence name or
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176 residue position within the alignment and create new sequence features
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177 from the queries. </em></li>
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178 <li><strong>Select All (Control A)<br>
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179 </strong><em>Selects all the sequences and residues in the alignment. <br>
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180 Use <CTRL> and A (<APPLE> and A on a MacOSX) to select
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182 <li><strong>Deselect All (Escape)<br>
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183 </strong><em>Removes the current selection box (red dashed box) from the
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184 alignment window. All selected sequences, residues and marked columns
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185 will be deselected. </em><em> <br>
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186 Use <ESCAPE> to deselect all.</em></li>
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187 <li><strong>Invert Sequence Selection (Control I)<br>
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188 </strong><em>Any sequence ids currently not selected will replace the
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189 current selection. </em></li>
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190 <li><strong>Invert Column Selection (Control Alt I)<br>
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191 </strong><em>Any columns currently not selected will replace the current
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192 column selection. </em></li>
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193 <li><strong>Undefine Groups (Control U)<br>
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194 </strong><em>The alignment will be reset with no defined groups.<br>
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195 <strong>WARNING</strong>: This cannot be undone.</em></li>
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198 <li><strong>View</strong>
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200 <li><strong>New View (Control T)</strong><em><br>
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201 Creates a new view from the current alignment view. </em></li>
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202 <li><strong>Expand Views (X)</strong><em><br>
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203 Display each view associated with the alignment in its own alignment
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204 window, allowing several views to be displayed simultaneously. </em></li>
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205 <li><strong>Gather Views (G)</strong><em><br>
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206 Each view associated with the alignment will be displayed within its
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207 own tab on the current alignment window. </em></li>
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208 <li><strong>Show→(all Columns / Sequences)</strong><em><br>
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209 All hidden Columns / Sequences will be revealed. </em></li>
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210 <li><strong>Hide→(all Columns / Sequences)</strong><em><br>
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211 Hides the all the currently selected Columns / Sequences</em></li>
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212 <li><strong>Show Annotations<br>
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213 </strong><em>If this is selected the "Annotation Panel" will be
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214 displayed below the alignment. The default setting is to display the
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215 conservation calculation, quality calculation and consensus values as
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216 bar charts. </em></li>
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217 <li><strong>Show Sequence Features</strong><br>
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218 <em>Show or hide sequence features on this alignment.</em></li>
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219 <li><strong><a href="../features/featuresettings.html">Seqence
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220 Feature Settings...</a></strong><em><br>
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221 <em>Opens the Sequence Feature Settings dialog box to control the
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222 colour and display of sequence features on the alignment, and
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223 configure and retrieve features from DAS annotation servers.</em></li>
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224 <li><strong><a href="../features/overview.html">Overview
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226 </strong><em>A scaled version of the alignment will be displayed in a
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227 small window. A red box will indicate the currently visible area of
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228 the alignment. Move the visible region using the mouse. </em></li>
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231 <li><strong>Alignment Window Format Menu</strong>
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233 <li><strong>Font...<br>
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234 </strong><em>Opens the "Choose Font" dialog box, in order to
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235 change the font of the display and enable or disable 'smooth fonts'
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236 (anti-aliasing) for faster alignment rendering. </em></li>
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237 <li><strong>Wrap<br>
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238 </strong><em>When ticked, the alignment display is "<a
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239 href="../features/wrap.html">wrapped</a>" to the width of the
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240 alignment window. This is useful if your alignment has only a few
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241 sequences to view its full width at once.<br>
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242 Additional options for display of sequence numbering and scales are
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243 also visible in wrapped layout mode:<br>
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245 <li><strong>Scale Above</strong><br>
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246 Show the alignment column position scale.</li>
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247 <li><strong>Scale Left</strong><br>
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248 Show the sequence position for the first aligned residue in each row
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249 in the left column of the alignment.</li>
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250 <li><strong>Scale Right</strong><br>
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251 Show the sequence position for the last aligned residue in each row
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252 in the right-most column of the alignment.</li>
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253 <li><strong>Show Sequence Limits<br>
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254 </strong><em>If this box is selected the sequence name will have the start
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255 and end position of the sequence appended to the name, in the format
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256 NAME/START-END</em></li>
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257 <li><strong>Right Align Sequence ID<br>
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258 </strong><em>If this box is selected then the sequence names displayed in
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259 the sequence label area will be aligned against the left-hand edge of
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260 the alignment display, rather than the left-hand edge of the alignment
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262 <li><strong>Show Hidden Markers<br>
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263 </strong><em>When this box is selected, positions in the alignment where
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264 rows and columns are hidden will be marked by blue arrows.</li>
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265 <li><strong>Boxes</strong><em><br>
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266 If this is selected the background of a residue will be coloured using
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267 the selected background colour. Useful if used in conjunction with
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268 "Colour Text." </em></li>
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269 <li><strong>Text<br>
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270 </strong><em>If this is selected the residues will be displayed using the
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271 standard 1 character amino acid alphabet.</em></li>
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272 <li><strong>Colour Text<br>
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273 </strong><em>If this is selected the residues will be coloured according
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274 to the background colour associated with that residue. The colour is
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275 slightly darker than background so the amino acid symbol remains
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276 visible. </em></li>
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277 <li><strong>Show Gaps<br>
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278 </strong><em>When this is selected, gap characters will be displayed as
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279 "." or "-". If unselected, then gap characters
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280 will appear as blank spaces. <br>
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281 You may set the default gap character in <a
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282 href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>.</em></li>
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284 <li><strong>Colour</strong>
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286 <li><strong>Apply Colour To All Groups<br>
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287 </strong><em>If this is selected, any changes made to the background
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288 colour will be applied to all currently defined groups.<br>
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290 <li><strong><a href="../colourSchemes/textcolour.html">Colour
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291 Text...</a></strong><em><br>
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292 Opens the Colour Text dialog box to set a different text colour for
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293 light and dark background, and the intensity threshold for transition
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294 between them. </em></li>
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295 <li>Colour Scheme options: <strong>None, ClustalX,
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296 Blosum62 Score, Percentage Identity, Zappo, Taylor, Hydrophobicity,
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297 Helix Propensity, Strand Propensity, Turn Propensity, Buried Index,
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298 Nucleotide, User Defined<br>
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299 </strong> <em>See <a href="../colourSchemes/index.html">colours</a> for a
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300 description of all colour schemes.</em><br>
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302 <li><strong>By Conservation<br>
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303 </strong><em>See <a href="../colourSchemes/conservation.html">Colouring
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304 by Conservation</a>.</em><br>
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306 <li><strong>Modify Conservation Threshold<br>
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307 </strong><em>Use this to display the conservation threshold slider window.
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308 Useful if the window has been closed, or if the 'by conservation'
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309 option appears to be doing nothing!</em><br>
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311 <li><strong>Above Identity Threshold<br>
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312 </strong><em>See <a href="../colourSchemes/abovePID.html">Above
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313 Percentage Identity</a></em><strong>.<br>
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315 <li><strong>Modify Identity Threshold<br>
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316 </strong><em>Use this to set the threshold value for colouring above
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317 Identity. Useful if the window has been closed.<br>
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319 <li><strong>By Annotation</strong><br>
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320 <em>Colours the alignment on a per-column value from a specified
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321 annotation. See <a href="../colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">Annotation
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322 Colouring</a>.</em><br>
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326 <li><strong>Calculate</strong>
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328 <li><strong>Sort </strong>
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330 <li><strong>by ID</strong><em><br>
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331 This will sort the sequences according to sequence name. If the sort
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332 is repeated, the order of the sorted sequences will be inverted. </em></li>
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333 <li><strong>by Group</strong><strong><br>
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334 </strong><em>This will sort the sequences according to sequence name. If
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335 the sort is repeated, the order of the sorted sequences will be
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336 inverted. </em><strong></strong></li>
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337 <li><strong>by Pairwise Identity<br>
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338 </strong><em>This will sort the selected sequences by their percentage
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339 identity to the consensus sequence. The most similar sequence is put
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340 at the top. </em></li>
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341 <li><em>The <a href="../calculations/sorting.html">Sort
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342 menu</a> will have some additional options if you have just done a
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343 multiple alignment calculation, or opened a tree viewer window.</em><br>
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347 <li><strong>Calculate Tree </strong> <br>
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348 <em>Functions for calculating trees on the alignment or the
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349 currently selected region. See <a href="../calculations/tree.html">calculating
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352 <li><strong>Average Distance Using % Identity</strong></li>
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353 <li><strong>Neighbour Joining Using % Identity</strong></li>
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354 <li><strong>Average Distance Using Blosum62</strong></li>
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355 <li><strong>Neighbour Joining Using Blosum62<br>
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359 <li><strong>Pairwise Alignments</strong><br>
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360 <em>Applies Smith and Waterman algorithm to selected sequences.
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361 See <a href="../calculations/pairwise.html">pairwise alignments</a>.</em><br>
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363 <li><strong>Principal Component Analysis</strong><br>
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364 <em>Shows a spatial clustering of the sequences based on the
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365 BLOSUM62 scores in the alignment. See <a
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366 href="../calculations/pca.html">Principal Component Analysis</a>.</em> <br>
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368 <li><strong>Autocalculate Consensus</strong><br>
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369 <em>For large alignments it can be useful to deselect
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370 "Autocalculate Consensus" when editing. This prevents the
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371 sometimes lengthy calculations performed after each sequence edit.</em> <br>
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375 <li><strong>Web Service<br>
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376 </strong> <em>Selecting one of the following menu items starts a remote
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377 service on compute facilities at the University of Dundee. You need a
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378 continuous network connection in order to use these services through
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381 <li><strong>Alignment</strong>
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383 <li><strong>ClustalW Multiple Sequence Alignment</strong><br>
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384 <em> Submits all, or just the currently selected sequences for
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385 alignment with clustal W.</em></li>
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386 <li><strong>ClustalW Multiple Sequence Alignment
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387 Realign</strong><br>
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388 <em> Submits the alignment or currently selected region for
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389 re-alignment with clustal W. Use this if you have added some new
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390 sequences to an existing alignment.</em></li>
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391 <li><strong>MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment</strong><br>
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392 <em>Submits all, or just the currently selected region for
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393 alignment with MAFFT. </em></li>
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394 <li><strong>Muscle Multiple Protein Sequence Alignment</strong><br>
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395 <em> Submits all, or just the currently selected sequences for
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396 alignment using Muscle. Do not use this if you are working with
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397 nucleic acid sequences.</em></li>
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400 <li><strong>Secondary Structure Prediction</strong>
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402 <li><strong>JPred Secondary Structure Prediction</strong><br>
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403 <em>Secondary structure prediction by network consensus. The
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404 behaviour of this calculation depends on the current selection: </em></li>
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405 <li><em>If nothing is selected, and the displayed sequences
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406 appear to be aligned, then a JNet prediction will be run for the
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407 first sequence in the alignment, using the current alignment.
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408 Otherwise the first sequence will be submitted for prediction. </em></li>
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409 <li><em>If just one sequence (or a region on one sequence)
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410 has been selected, it will be submitted to the automatic JNet
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411 prediction server for homolog detection and prediction. </em></li>
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412 <li><em>If a set of sequences are selected, and they appear
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413 to be aligned, then the alignment will be used for a Jnet prediction
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414 on the <strong>first</strong> sequence in the set (that is, the one
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415 that appears first in the alignment window). </em></li>
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