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23 <title>Alignment Window Menus</title>
28 <strong>Alignment Window Edit Menu</strong>
31 <li><strong>Undo (Control Z)</strong><em><br> This
32 will undo any edits you make to the alignment. This applies to
33 insertion or deletion of gaps, cutting residues or sequences
34 from the alignment or pasting sequences to the current alignment
35 or sorting the alignment. <strong>NOTE:</strong> It DOES NOT
36 undo colour changes, adjustments to group sizes, or changes to
37 the annotation panel. </em></li>
38 <li><strong>Redo (Control Y)<br>
39 </strong><em>Any actions which you undo can be redone using redo. </em></li>
40 <li><strong>Cut (Control X)<br>
41 </strong><em>This will make a copy of the currently selected residues
42 before removing them from your alignment. Click on a sequence
43 name if you wish to select a whole sequence. <br> Use
44 <CTRL> and X (<APPLE> and X on MacOSX) to cut.
46 <li><strong>Copy (Control C)</strong><br> <em>Copies
47 the currently selected residues to the system clipboard - you
48 can also do this by pressing <CTRL> and C (<APPLE>
49 and C on MacOSX). <br> If you try to paste the clipboard
50 contents to a text editor, you will see the format of the copied
53 <li><strong>Paste </strong>
55 <li><strong>To New Alignment (Control Shift V)<br>
56 </strong><em>A new alignment window will be created from sequences
57 previously copied or cut to the system clipboard. <br>
58 Use <CTRL> and <SHIFT> and V(<APPLE> and
59 <SHIFT;> and and V on MacOSX) to paste.
61 <li><strong>Add To This Alignment (Control V)<br>
62 </strong><em>Copied sequences from another alignment window can be
63 added to the current Jalview alignment. </em></li>
65 <li><strong>Delete (Backspace)<br>
66 </strong><em>This will delete the currently selected residues without
67 copying them to the clipboard. Like the other edit operations,
68 this can be undone with <strong>Undo</strong>.
70 <li><strong>Remove Left (Control L)<br>
71 </strong><em>If the alignment has marked columns, the alignment will be
72 trimmed to the left of the leftmost marked column. To mark a
73 column, mouse click the scale bar above the alignment. Click
74 again to unmark a column, or select "Deselect All" to
75 deselect all columns.</em></li>
76 <li><strong>Remove Right (Control R)<br>
77 </strong><em>If the alignment has marked columns, the alignment will be
78 trimmed to the right of the rightmost marked column. To mark a
79 column, mouse click the scale bar above the alignment. Click
80 again to unmark a column, or select "Deselect All" to
81 deselect all columns.</em></li>
82 <li><strong>Remove Empty Columns (Control E)<br>
83 </strong><em>All columns which only contain gap characters
84 ("-", ".") will be deleted.<br> You may
85 set the default gap character in <a
86 href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>.
88 <li><strong>Remove All Gaps (Control Shift E)</strong><br>
89 <em>Gap characters ("-", ".") will be
90 deleted from the selected area of the alignment. If no selection
91 is made, ALL the gaps in the alignment will be removed.<br>
92 You may set the default gap character in <a
93 href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>.
95 <li><strong>Remove Redundancy (Control D)<br>
96 </strong><em>Selecting this option brings up a window asking you to
97 select a threshold. If the percentage identity between any two
98 sequences (under the current alignment) exceeds this value then
99 one of the sequences (the shorter) is discarded. Press the
100 "Apply" button to remove redundant sequences. The
101 "Undo" button will undo the last redundancy deletion.</em></li>
102 <li><strong>Pad Gaps<br>
103 </strong><em>When selected, the alignment will be kept at minimal width
104 (so there are no empty columns before or after the first or last
105 aligned residue) and all sequences will be padded with gap
106 characters before and after their terminating residues.<br>
107 This switch is useful when making a tree using unaligned
108 sequences and when working with alignment analysis programs
109 which require 'properly aligned sequences' to be all the same
110 length.<br> You may set the default for <strong>Pad
111 Gaps</strong> in the <a href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>.