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1. PREFACE .......................................................................................................1 Gene Codes ......................................................................................................................... 1 2. USING THIS MANUAL ...................................................................................3 Conventions used in this manual ........................................................................................ 3 Installing Sequencher .......................................................................................................... 3 Sequencher Help ................................................................................................................. 3 Navigating Sequencher Help....................................................................................................................... 4 Context Sensitive Screens ........................................................................................................................... 4 The button bar ..................................................................................................................... 5 Sequencher’s menus ............................................................................................................ 5 Sequencher .................................................................................................................................................. 5 File menu ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Edit menu .................................................................................................................................................... 5 Select menu ................................................................................................................................................. 5 Contig menu ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Sequence menu............................................................................................................................................ 6 View menu .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Window menu ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Help menu ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Context Sensitive menus and buttons ................................................................................. 6 Contextual menus ............................................................................................................... 6 Keyboard shortcuts ............................................................................................................. 7 3. THE PROJECT WINDOW ..............................................................................9 Sequencher concepts ........................................................................................................... 9 About the Project Window .......................................................................................................................... 9 Creating a new project ................................................................................................................................ 9 Opening an existing project ...................................................................................................................... 10 Working with items in the Project Window .............................................................................................. 11 Icon types .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Project views ......................................................................................................................11 View as Large Icons .................................................................................................................................. 11 View as Small Icons .................................................................................................................................. 12 Moving icons ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Cleaning up ............................................................................................................................................... 12 View as a list ............................................................................................................................................. 13 Project Window Columns ......................................................................................................................... 13 Viewing constituent sequences ................................................................................................................. 14 Viewing the information for a sequence or contig .................................................................................... 15 Editing the information for a sequence or contig ...................................................................................... 16 The Project Window button bar ................................................................................................................ 16 iv
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Page 18 and 19: We welcome your comments or support
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Figure 6-7 The polylinker window No
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Setting Vector Trimming Criteria Se
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Basic Reference Sequence properties
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When the To Reference by Name comma
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A locked editor is read-only. You c
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If your sequence was called “MyPU
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Viewing summary information in the
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Figure 8-7 ORF selected by Next Met
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If you want to assign a personal an
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Voice verification Sequencher provi
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Chapter 9 “Sequence Assembly” f
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Figure 9-2 The Clean Data algorithm
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Performing the assembly Automatic a
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Figure 9-5 Interactive assembly sho
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The new contig will appear in the P
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When you use a Name Delimiter, it w
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If the Expression is a delimiter bo
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Figure 10-6 The Project Window with
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it is in the reverse orientation. T
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Figure 11-2 Contig overview Fifure
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Base Numbers At Transitions Clickin
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Label Name Function E F G H Sequenc
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Consensus to Forensic Standards In
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consensus is from a base with a low
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move the gaps to the 5’ end, sele
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Figure 12-4 Fill Void dialog box De
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First select the base or range of b
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The Translated Variance Table If yo
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Structure of the Translated Varianc
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(see Figure 13-5). It is possible f
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Figure 13-7 Translated Variance Tab
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If you want to restrict the Compari
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Figure 13-13 Creating a Joined feat
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In either case, the method you choo
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You can edit your data directly in
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Figure 13-17 The Translated Varianc
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Figure 13-19 Extract from Variance
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The Population Table lists the vari
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If you want to remove sample sequen
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Select Individual Variance Reports
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If you prefer to copy your Translat
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You can copy your Translated Varian
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Summary report display options Sequ
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Enabling the protein display To ena
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Note: Remember that even if a seque
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If you select the Contig Chromatogr
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Select command Table 15-1 Summary o
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Note: The Extend Selection command
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Figure 16-2 Restriction map options
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example, if you were displaying onl
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Figure 16-8 Checkmarked enzyme list
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display this view by going to the V
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The default setting shows exact mat
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Creating and editing features To cr
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Quick feature creation To create a
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Figure 18-1 A dimmed icon Finding t
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Note: If you pause between characte
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a dialog box (Figure 18-6). This le
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Figure 19-1 Export Options dialog b
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You should remember to provide a re
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Figure 19-3 Copy As Protein Transla
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[Project Name] and [User Name]. You
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Colors as Backgrounds Sometimes, di
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Choosing a genetic code You will fi
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time you select the Review button f
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Label & Name The Label & Name prefe
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Click the Use Blank Project radio b
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Use the Columns For Multiple Traces
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If you are making changes to the wa
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Variance Table The Variance Table p
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Figure 22-1 The Validate mtDNA Prof
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Figure 22-3 The Circular Genome Siz
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Menu/Window Command Windows Select
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You may require a more complex deli
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Code Base(s) Meaning 5 A or Another
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Feature Display Color Style Second
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eferences numbers, sequences, or us
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Qualifier type Description Citation
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Feature Key Default Feature Qualifi
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Name CursorProject Window Dialog bo
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