Institute, or, since Jalview 2.4, DAS servers capable of the <em>sequence</em>
command (configured in <a href="dassettings.html">DAS settings</a>).
</p>
- <img src="seqfetcher.gif" align="center"
- alt="The Jalview Sequence Fetcher Dialog Box"
- >
- <p>The Sequence Fetcher dialog box can be opened via the
+ <p>The Sequence Fetcher 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. There
whilst Jalview compiles the list of available sequence datasources
from the currently defined DAS server registry.</p>
<p>
- First, <strong>select the database you want to retrieve
- sequences from</strong> by clicking the button labeled 'Select database
- retrieval source'. If a database source is already selected, then
- the button's label will change to show the currently selected
- database.
+ Every time a new fetcher is opened, you will need to <strong>select the database you want to retrieve
+ sequences</strong> from the database chooser.
</p>
- <img src="selectfetchdb.gif" align="left"
+ <img src="selectfetchdb.gif" align="left" width="480" height="204"
alt="Database selection dialog for fetching sequences (introduced in Jalview 2.8)"
>
- <p>Since Jalview 2.8, the available databases are shown as a tree
- in a popup dialog box. The databases are ordered alphabetically, and
- if there are many sources for the same type of sequence identifier,
- they will be grouped together in a sub-branch branch labeled with
- the identifier.</p>
- <p>
- Once you have selected the sequence database using the popup dialog
- box, <strong>enter one or more accession ids</strong> (as a
- semi-colon separated list), or press the "Example" button
- to paste the example accession for the currently selected database
- into the retrieval box. Finally, press "OK" to initiate
- the retrieval.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Fetching from The PDB with the EMBL-EBI PDBe Search
- Interface</strong>
- </p>
- <p>
- Since Jalview 2.9, selecting PDB as the sequence database will open
- the <a href="pdbsequencefetcher.html">PDB Sequence Fetcher</a> for
- discovering and retrieving structures.
- </p>
+ <p>The databases are shown as a tree, and ordered alphabetically;
+ tooltips are shown if you mouse over some sources, explaining what
+ the database will retrieve. You can select one by using the up/down
+ arrow keys and hitting return, or by double clicking with the mouse.
+ <br/><em>If you have DAS sources enabled, then you may have several sources
+ for the same type of sequence identifier, and these will be grouped
+ together in a sub-branch branch labeled with the identifier.</em></p>
+ <p>Once you have selected a sequence database, its fetcher dialog
+ will open. Jalview provides two types of dialog:</p>
+ <ol><li><strong>The Free-text Search Interface</strong>
+
+ <br/>Free-text search clients are provided for PDB (Since 2.9), and
+ UniProt (Since 2.10). They provide access to each database's own
+ query system, enabling you to retrieve data by accession, free text
+ description, or any other type of supported field. For full details,
+ see each client's help page:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="pdbsequencefetcher.html">PDB Sequence Fetcher</a></li>
+ <li><a href="uniprotsequencefetcher.html">UniProt Sequence
+ Fetcher</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>Accession based sequence retrieval</strong>
+ <br/>
+
+ <img src="seqfetcher.gif" align="center"
+ alt="The Jalview Sequence Fetcher Dialog Box"><br/>
+ To retrieve sequences, simply <strong>enter one or more accession ids</strong> (as a semi-colon
+ separated list), or press the "Example" button to paste the
+ example accession for the currently selected database into the
+ retrieval box. Finally, press "OK" to initiate the
+ retrieval.
+ </li>
+ </ol>
<p>
<strong>Only retrieving part of a sequence</strong>
</p>
<p>
- DAS sources (indicated by a "<em>(DAS)</em>") allow a
- range to be specified in addition to a sequence ID. To retrieve 50
- residues starting at position 35 in UNIPROT sequence P73137 using
- the UNIPROT DAS server, you would enter "'P73137:35,84'.<br />
- <em>Full support for DAS range queries was introduced in
- Jalview 2.8</em>
+ When using DAS sources (indicated by a "<em>(DAS)</em>"),
+ you can append a range in addition to a sequence ID. For example, to
+ retrieve 50 residues starting at position 35 in UNIPROT sequence
+ P73137 using the UNIPROT DAS server, you would enter
+ "'P73137:35,84'.<br /> <em>Full support for DAS range
+ queries was introduced in Jalview 2.8</em>
</p>
<p>If you use the WSDBFetch sequence fetcher services (EMBL,