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CHAPTER 9. VIEWING AND EDITING SEQUENCES
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• Latin name. Latin name of the organism.
• Common name. Scientific name of the organism.
• Taxonomy name. Taxonomic classification levels.
The information available depends on the origin of the sequence. Sequences downloaded from
database like NCBI and UniProt (see section 10) have this information. On the other hand, some
sequence formats like fasta format do not contain this information.
Some of the information can be edited by clicking the blue Edit text. This means that you can
add your own information to sequences that do not derive from databases.
Note that for other kinds of data, the Element info will only have Name and Description.
9.5
View as text
A sequence can be viewed as text without any layout and text formatting. This displays all the
information about the sequence in the GenBank file format. To view a sequence as text:
Select a sequence in the Navigation Area and right-click on the file name | Hold
the mouse over "Show" to enable a list of options | Select "Text View" ( )
Another way to show the text view is to open the sequence in the View Area and click on the
"Show Text View" icon ( ) found at the bottom of the window.
This makes it possible to see background information about e.g. the authors and the origin of
DNA and protein sequences. Selections or the entire text of the Sequence Text View can be
copied and pasted into other programs:
Much of the information is also displayed in the Sequence info, where it is easier to get an
overview (see section 9.4.)
In the Side Panel, you find a search field for searching the text in the view.
9.6
Sequence Lists
The Sequence List shows a number of sequences in a tabular format or it can show the
sequences together in a normal sequence view.
Having sequences in a sequence list can help organizing sequence data.
Sequence lists are generated automatically when you import files containing more than one
sequence. Sequence lists may also be created as the output from particular Workbench tools,
including database searches such as a (see section ??. (see (chapter 10.1)).
Sequence List can also be created from other sequences or sequence lists within the Workbench.
To do this:
select two or more sequences or sequence lists | right-click the elements | New |
Sequence List ( )
Alternatively, you can launch this took via the menu system:
File | New | Sequence List (
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