• Manuals

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• Introduction to CLC Sequence Viewer
  • Contact information
    • Contact for the CLC Sequence Viewer
    • New program feature request
    • Getting help
  • Download and installation
    • Program download
    • Installation on Microsoft Windows
    • Installation on Mac OS X
    • Installation on Linux with an installer
  • System requirements
    • CLC Sequence Viewer vs. Workbenches
  • When the program is installed: Getting started
    • Quick start
    • Import of example data
    • Import of example data
  • Plugins
    • Installing plugins
  • Install
  • Uninstall
    • Uninstalling plugins
    • Updating plugins
  • Network configuration
  • Latest improvements
• User interface
  • Navigation Area
    • Data structure
    • Create new folders
    • Sorting folders
    • Multiselecting elements
    • Moving and copying elements
    • Change element names
    • Delete, restore and remove elements
    • Show folder elements in a table
  • View Area
    • Open view
    • Open additional views with the toolbar
    • History and Info views
    • Close views
    • Save changes in a view
    • Undo/Redo
    • Arrange views in View Area
    • Moving a view to a different screen
    • Side Panel
  • Zoom and selection in View Area
    • Zoom in
    • Zoom out
    • Selecting, panning and zooming
  • Toolbox and Status Bar
    • Processes
    • Toolbox
    • Status Bar
  • Workspace
    • Create Workspace
    • Select Workspace
    • Delete Workspace
  • List of shortcuts
  • Working with tables
    • Filtering tables
• User preferences and settings
  • General preferences
  • View preferences
    • Import and export Side Panel settings
  • Advanced preferences
  • Export/import of preferences
    • The different options for export and import
  • View settings for the Side Panel
    • Saving, removing and applying saved settings
• Printing
  • Selecting which part of the view to print
  • Page setup
  • Print preview
• Import/export of data and graphics
  • Standard import
    • Import using the import dialog
    • Import using drag and drop
    • Import using copy/paste of text
    • External files
  • Data export
    • Export of folders and multiple elements in CLC format
    • Export of dependent elements
    • Export history
    • The CLC format
    • Backing up data from the CLC Workbench
  • Export graphics to files
    • Which part of the view to export
    • Save location and file formats
    • Graphics export parameters
    • Exporting protein reports
  • Export graph data points to a file
  • Copy/paste view output
• Data download
  • Search for Sequences at NCBI
    • NCBI search options
    • Handling of NCBI search results
    • Save NCBI search parameters
• Viewing and editing sequences
  • View sequence
    • Sequence settings in Side Panel
    • Selecting parts of the sequence
    • Editing the sequence
    • Sequence region types
  • Circular DNA
    • Using split views to see details of the circular molecule
    • Mark molecule as circular and specify starting point
  • Working with annotations
    • Viewing annotations
    • Removing annotations
  • Element information
  • View as text
  • Sequence Lists
• Viewing structures
  • Importing molecule structure files
    • Import issues
  • Viewing molecular structures in 3D
    • Moving and rotating
    • Troubleshooting 3D graphics errors
  • Customizing the visualization
    • Visualization styles and colors
    • Project settings
  • Snapshots of the molecule visualization
  • Tools for linking sequence and structure
    • Show sequence associated with molecule
• General sequence analyses
  • Extract sequences
  • Shuffle sequence
  • Sequence statistics
    • Bioinformatics explained: Protein statistics
  • Join sequences
• Nucleotide analyses
  • Convert DNA to RNA
  • Convert RNA to DNA
  • Reverse complements of sequences
  • Reverse sequence
  • Translation of DNA or RNA to protein
  • Find open reading frames
    • Open reading frame parameters
• Restriction site analyses
  • Dynamic restriction sites
    • Sort enzymes
    • Manage enzymes
  • Restriction site analysis from the Toolbox
    • Selecting, sorting and filtering enzymes
    • Number of cut sites
    • Output of restriction map analysis
    • Restriction sites as annotation on the sequence
    • Table of restriction sites
  • Restriction enzyme lists
    • Create enzyme list
    • View and modify enzyme list
• Sequence alignment
  • Create an alignment
    • Gap costs
    • Fast or accurate alignment algorithm
    • Aligning alignments
    • Fixpoints
  • View alignments
  • Edit alignments
    • Move residues and gaps
    • Insert gaps
    • Delete residues and gaps
    • Move sequences up and down
    • Delete and rename sequences
  • Bioinformatics explained: Multiple alignments
    • Use of multiple alignments
    • Constructing multiple alignments
• Phylogenetic trees
  • Phylogenetic tree features
  • Create Trees
    • Create tree
    • Bioinformatics explained
  • Tree Settings
    • Minimap
    • Tree layout
    • Node settings
    • Label settings
    • Background settings
    • Branch layout
    • Bootstrap settings
    • Node right click menu
• Appendix
  • More features
  • Graph preferences
  • Formats for import and export
    • List of bioinformatic data formats
    • List of graphics data formats
  • Restriction enzymes database configuration
  • IUPAC codes for amino acids
  • IUPAC codes for nucleotides
  • Translation Tables
    • 1. Standard
    • 2. Vertebrate Mitochondrial
    • 3. Yeast Mitochondrial
    • 4. Mold Mitochondrial; Protozoan Mitochondrial; Coelenterate Mitochondrial; Mycoplasma; Spiroplasma
    • 5. Invertebrate Mitochondrial
    • 6. Ciliate Nuclear; Dasycladacean Nuclear; Hexamita Nuclear
    • 9. Echinoderm Mitochondrial; Flatworm Mitochondrial
    • 10. Euplotid Nuclear
    • 11. Bacterial and Plant Plastid
    • 12. Alternative Yeast Nuclear
    • 13. Ascidian Mitochondrial
    • 14. Alternative Flatworm Mitochondrial
    • 15. Blepharisma Macronuclear
    • 16. Chlorophycean Mitochondrial
    • 21. Trematode Mitochondrial
    • 22. Scenedesmus Obliquus Mitochondrial
    • 23. Thraustochytrium Mitochondrial
    • 24. Pterobranchia Mitochondrial
    • 25. Candidate Division SR1 and Gracilibacteria
  • Matrices for alignment calculation
    • PAM30 log-odds matrix
    • PAM60 log-odds matrix
    • BLOSUM42 log-odds matrix
    • BLOSUM62 log-odds matrix
    • BLOSUM80 log-odds matrix
• Bibliography

Getting help

Users of the freely available CLC Sequence Viewer can make use of any of our online documentation sources, including the manuals (http://www.qiagenbioinformatics.com/support/manuals/), tutorials (http://www.qiagenbioinformatics.com/support/tutorials/) and other entries in our FAQ area (http://helpdesk.clcbio.com/index.php?pg=kb).

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