Summary of Command Line Arguments (version 2.11.3.0 onwards)

See Jalview Command Line Arguments (next generation) for more explanation about using Jalview's command line arguments.

argument action subval modifiers (optional) linked (optional)
--open filename/URL ... Opens one or more alignment files in new alignment windows. Examples. colour=colourscheme, title=title, features=featurefile, annotations=annotationfile, tree=treefile, showannotations, ssannotations, sortbytree, wrap
--append filename/URL ... Appends one or more alignment files to an open alignment window (or opens a new alignment if none already open). colour=colourscheme, title=title, features=featurefile, annotations=annotationfile, tree=treefile, showannotations, ssannotations, sortbytree, wrap . Examples.
--title "title" Specifies the title for the open alignment window.
--colour colourscheme Applies the given colour scheme to the open alignment window. Valid values are: clustal, blosum62, pc-identity, zappo, taylor, gecos-flower, gecos-blossom, gecos-sunset, gecos-ocean, hydrophobic, helix-propensity, strand-propensity, turn-propensity, buried-index, nucleotide, nucleotide-ambiguity, purine-pyrimidine, rna-helices, t-coffee-scores, sequence-id. Examples.
--features filename/URL Add a feature file to the open alignment.
--tree filename/URL Add a tree file to the open alignment.
--sortbytree / --nosortbytree Enforces sorting (or not sorting) the alignment in the order of an attached phylogenetic tree.
--annotations filename/URL Add an annotations file to the open alignment.
--showannotations / --noshowannotations Enforces showing (or not showing) alignment annotations.
--structure filename/URL Load a structure file attached to a sequence in the open alignment. seqid=sequenceid or sequence index, paefile=paefilename, tempfac=temperature factor type, ssannotations, notempfac, structureviewer=structure viewer
--paematrix filename Add a PAE file to the preceding --structure
--tempfac temperature factor type Set the type of temperature factor. Possible values are default, plddt
--structureviewer structure viewer Set the structure viewer to use to open the 3d structure file specified in previous --structure. Possible values are:
none,
jmol,
chimera - requires installation, might need configuring in Preferences,
chimerax - requires installation, might need configuring in Preferences,
pymol - requires installation, might need configuring in Preferences
--notempfac Do not show the temperature factor annotation for the preceding --structure
--groovy filename Process a groovy script in the file for the open alignment.
--image new filename Output an image of the open alignment window. Format is specified by the subval modifier, a following --type argument or guessed from the file extension. Valid formats/extensions are: svg, png, eps, html, biojs type=image format, textrenderer=text format
--type image format Set the image format for the preceding --image. Valid values are: svg, png, eps, html, biojs
--textrenderer text format Sets whether text in a vector image format (SVG, HTML, EPS) should be rendered as text or vector line-art. Possible values are: text, lineart
--output outputfilename Export the open alignment. Format is specified by the subval modifier, a following --format argument or guessed from the file extension. Valid formats/extensions are:
Fasta (fa, fasta),
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