Sequence Fetcher

Jalview can retrieve sequences from certain databases via the WSDBFetch service provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute.

A Sequence Fetcher dialog box can be opened via the "File" menu on the main desktop in order to retrieve sequences as a new alignment, or opened via the "File" menu of an existing alignment to import additional sequences.

Select the database you want to retrieve sequences from, and enter the database id (or a semi-colon separated list of several ids) in the text box. Finally, press OK to initiate the retrieval.

If you are retrieving sequences from the PDB, you can retrieve specific chains by appending a colon and the chain id to the PDB id. For example :

 1GAQ:A

If you use the sequence fetcher in work for publication, please cite:

Pillai S., Silventoinen V., Kallio K., Senger M., Sobhany S., Tate J., Velankar S., Golovin A., Henrick K., Rice P., Stoehr P., Lopez R.
SOAP-based services provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute.
Nucleic Acids Res. 33(1):W25-W28 (2005)