+
+ void setSequenceColour(SequenceI seq, Color col);
+
+ Color getSequenceColour(SequenceI seq);
+
+ void updateSequenceIdColours();
+
+ SequenceGroup getSelectionGroup();
+
+ /**
+ * get the currently selected sequence objects or all the sequences in the
+ * alignment. TODO: change to List<>
+ *
+ * @return array of references to sequence objects
+ */
+ SequenceI[] getSequenceSelection();
+
+ void clearSequenceColours();
+
+ /**
+ * This method returns the visible alignment as text, as seen on the GUI, ie
+ * if columns are hidden they will not be returned in the result. Use this for
+ * calculating trees, PCA, redundancy etc on views which contain hidden
+ * columns.
+ *
+ * @return String[]
+ */
+ CigarArray getViewAsCigars(boolean selectedRegionOnly);
+
+ /**
+ * return a compact representation of the current alignment selection to pass
+ * to an analysis function
+ *
+ * @param selectedOnly
+ * boolean true to just return the selected view
+ * @return AlignmentView
+ */
+ AlignmentView getAlignmentView(boolean selectedOnly);
+
+ /**
+ * return a compact representation of the current alignment selection to pass
+ * to an analysis function
+ *
+ * @param selectedOnly
+ * boolean true to just return the selected view
+ * @param markGroups
+ * boolean true to annotate the alignment view with groups on the
+ * alignment (and intersecting with selected region if selectedOnly
+ * is true)
+ * @return AlignmentView
+ */
+ AlignmentView getAlignmentView(boolean selectedOnly, boolean markGroups);
+
+ /**
+ * This method returns the visible alignment as text, as seen on the GUI, ie
+ * if columns are hidden they will not be returned in the result. Use this for
+ * calculating trees, PCA, redundancy etc on views which contain hidden
+ * columns. This method doesn't exclude hidden sequences from the output.
+ *
+ * @param selectedRegionOnly
+ * - determines if only the selected region or entire alignment is
+ * exported
+ * @return String[]
+ */
+ String[] getViewAsString(boolean selectedRegionOnly);
+
+ /**
+ * This method returns the visible alignment as text, as seen on the GUI, ie
+ * if columns are hidden they will not be returned in the result. Use this for
+ * calculating trees, PCA, redundancy etc on views which contain hidden
+ * columns.
+ *
+ * @param selectedRegionOnly
+ * - determines if only the selected region or entire alignment is
+ * exported
+ * @param isExportHiddenSeqs
+ * - determines if hidden sequences would be exported or not.
+ *
+ * @return String[]
+ */
+ String[] getViewAsString(boolean selectedRegionOnly,
+ boolean isExportHiddenSeqs);
+
+ void setSelectionGroup(SequenceGroup sg);
+
+ char getGapCharacter();
+
+ void setColumnSelection(ColumnSelection cs);
+
+ void setConservation(Conservation cons);
+