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5. Organizing Project Views
In this chapter on organizing project views you will learn more about the structure of a
Sequencher project as you begin to work with your data. We will discuss how to select
individual and multiple sequences using various techniques, renaming items and saving
your work.
Working with icons and lists
Changing between project views
Sequencher provides you with a variety of ways to view and organize the contigs and
unincorporated data in your Project Window. You can view your data as large or small
icons or in list form (for more information see Chapter 3 “The Project Window”). You
can toggle quickly between types of views by holding down the Alt key and clicking in
the header title area, just above the icons and below the parameter information. You can
display a list of sequences in a single contig in the list view by clicking on the plus sign
to left of the contig icon. You can see a list of sequences in all your contigs by going to
the View menu and choosing Expand All.
Collecting sequences in refrigerators
Sequencher lets you create “refrigerators” in the Project Window to hold certain subsets
of your project. Refrigerators hold only raw sequences, not contigs or other refrigerators.
To “put away” a few sequences in “cold storage,” select the sequences and then go to the
Edit menu and choose Refrigerate. Sequencher collects the sequences and puts them in
the refrigerator.
To remove sequences from the refrigerator, open the refrigerator by double-clicking on it.
You will see a list of items. Select the items you want to remove and then click the button
called Move Selected Items To Project Window to execute the command.
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