Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure default colourschemes
for a new alignment window.
</li>
+ <li>The <a href="#overview"><strong>"Overview"</strong>
+ Preferences</a> tab configures defaults for the overview window.
+ </li>
<li>The <a href="#structure"><strong>"Structure"</strong>
Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure options for obtaining
and displaying structure information.
sequence alignments and EPS files.
</li>
<li>The <a href="#editing"><strong>"Editing"</strong>
- Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting the export of
- sequence alignments and EPS files.
- </li>
- <li>The <a href="dassettings.html"><strong>"DAS
- Settings"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to select which DAS
- sources to use when fetching DAS Features.
+ Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting behaviour when editing alignments.
</li>
<li>The <a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html"><strong>"Web
Service"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure the <a
by Annotation...</a> is selected from the alignment window's colours
menu.
</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="overview"><strong>"Overview"
+ Preferences tab</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <em>Use legacy gap colouring (gaps are white)</em> - when enabled,
+ Jalview's overview shows gaps as white, and sequences with no
+ colourscheme applied as grey.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <em>Show Hidden regions when opening overview</em> - default setting
+ for inclusion of hidden regions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <em>Gap Colour</em> - When legacy gap colouring is not enabled, this
+ configures the default colour for gaps in the overview.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <em>Hidden Colour</em> - colour used to highlight regions in the
+ overview that are hidden in the alignment.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <em>Gap Colour</em> - The default colour scheme for a new alignment
+ window. If the chosen option is "User Defined" then the
+ last User Defined Colour loaded or saved via the User Defined
+ Colours panel will be loaded.
+ </p>
<p>
<a name="structure"><strong>"Structure"
Preferences tab</strong></a><em> added in Jalview 2.8.2</em>
the backbone atoms in the PDB file will be extracted as annotation
lines shown on the alignment.
<p>
- <em>Default structure viewer</em> - choose JMOL or CHIMERA for
+ <em>Default structure viewer</em> - choose Jmol or CHIMERA for
viewing 3D structures.
<p>
<em>Path to Chimera program</em> - Optional, as Jalview will search
Preferences tab</strong></a>
</p>
<p>
- <em>Default Browser (Unix)</em><br> Its difficult in Java to
+ <em>Default Browser (Unix)</em><br> It's difficult in Java to
detect the default web browser for Unix users. If Jalview can't find
your default web browser, enter the name or full path to your web
browser application.
The <em>Custom only</em> button limits the entries in the table to
just those you have configured yourself <em>via</em> the <em>Edit
Links</em> buttons. Press <em>Show all</em> to clear any filters.
- <p>
+ </p>
+ <p>The links table is prepopulated with persistent URLs for many common
+ bioinformatics databases (since 2.10.2). These links are downloaded by Jalview from
+ the <em>identifiers.org</em> website, and the names and URLs are not
+ user editable.
<a href="../webServices/urllinks.html#urllinks">Read more about configuring
URL links.</a>
</p>
allows the user to set a default rendering style for EPS export:
<ul>
<li>"Prompt each time"<br> Choose this to be
- asked select between Lineart and Text each time you make an EPS
+ asked to select between Lineart and Text each time you make an EPS
file.
</li>
<li>"Lineart"<br> EPS files will accurately
ignored if <em>"Automatically set ID width"</em> is set.
</p>
<p>
- <em>Sequence//Start-End Numbering</em><br> The output tab also
+ <em>Sequence/Start-End Numbering</em><br> The output tab also
has a group of checkboxes for each file format. If these are ticked,
then Jalview will write files with the start and end sequence
positions appended to each sequence id:
and PDB file association (if available). The Jalview id/start-end
option is ignored if Modeller output is selected.
<p>
- <a name="editing"><strong>e"Editinge" Preferences tab</strong></a>
+ <a name="editing"><strong>"Editing" Preferences tab</strong></a>
</p>
<p>There are currently three options available which can be
selected / deselected.</p>