Working with annotations
Annotations provide information about specific regions of a sequence. A typical example is the annotation of a gene on a genomic DNA sequence.
Annotations derive from different sources:
- Sequences downloaded from databases like GenBank are annotated.
- In some of the data formats that can be imported into CLC Genomics Workbench, sequences can have annotations (GenBank, EMBL, and Swiss-Prot format).
- The result of a number of analyses in CLC Genomics Workbench are annotations on the sequence (e.g. finding open reading frames and restriction analysis).
- A protein structure can be linked with a sequence and atom groups defined on the structure transferred to sequence annotations, or vica versa.
- You can manually add annotations to a sequence.
If you would like to extract parts of a sequence (or several sequences) based on its annotations, you can find a description of how to do this in Extract Annotated Regions.
Note! Annotations are included if you export the sequence in GenBank, Swiss-Prot, EMBL, or CLC format. When exporting in other formats, annotations are not preserved in the exported file.
Subsections
- Viewing annotations
- Adding annotations
- Editing annotations
- Removing annotations
- Export annotations to a GFF3 format file