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Introduction to CLC Main Workbench
- Contact information
- Download and installation
- System requirements
- Workbench Licenses
- When the program is installed: Getting started
  - Quick start
- Plugins
- Network configuration
- Latest improvements
User interface
- View Area
- Zoom and selection in View Area
- Toolbox and Status Bar
- Workspace
- List of shortcuts
Data management and search
- Navigation Area
- Metadata
- Working with tables
  - Filtering tables
- Customized attributes on data locations
- Local search
  - Quick search
  - Advanced search
User preferences and settings
- General preferences
- View preferences
  - Import and export Side Panel settings
- Data preferences
- Advanced preferences
- Export/import of preferences
- View settings for the Side Panel
Printing
- Selecting which part of the view to print
- Page setup
- Print preview
Import/export of data and graphics
- Standard import
  - External files
- Data export
- Export graphics to files
  - File formats
- 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
- Search for structures at NCBI
- UniProt (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL) search
- Sequence web info
Running tools, handling results and batching
- Running tools
- Handling results
- Batch processing
Workflows
- Creating a workflow
- Distributing and installing workflows
- Executing a workflow
- Open copy of installed workflow
Other data types
- Tracks
Viewing and editing sequences
- View sequence
- Circular DNA
  - Using split views to see details of the circular molecule
  - Mark molecule as circular and specify starting point
- Working with annotations
- Element information
- View as text
- Sequence Lists
3D Molecule Viewer
- Importing molecule structure files
- Viewing molecular structures in 3D
  - Updating old structure files
- Customizing the visualization
  - Visualization styles and colors
  - Project settings
- Tools for linking sequence and structure
- Protein structure alignment
Sequence alignment
- Create an alignment
- View alignments
  - Bioinformatics explained: Sequence logo
- Edit alignments
  - Realignment
- Join alignments
- Pairwise comparison
  - The pairwise comparison table
  - Bioinformatics explained: Multiple alignments
Phylogenetic trees
- K-mer Based Tree Construction
- Create tree
- Model Testing
- Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny
  - Bioinformatics explained
- Tree Settings
- Metadata and phylogenetic trees
General sequence analyses
- Extract Annotations
- Extract sequences
- Shuffle sequence
- Dot plots
- Local complexity plot
- Sequence statistics
  - Bioinformatics explained: Protein statistics
- Join sequences
- Pattern discovery
  - Pattern discovery search parameters
  - Pattern search output
- Motif Search
- Create motif list
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
Protein analyses
- Protein charge
- Antigenicity
- Hydrophobicity
  - Hydrophobicity graphs along sequence
  - Bioinformatics explained: Protein hydrophobicity
- Pfam domain search
  - Download of Pfam database
  - Running Pfam Domain Search
- Secondary structure prediction
- Protein report
- Reverse translation from protein into DNA
  - Bioinformatics explained: Reverse translation
- Proteolytic cleavage detection
  - Bioinformatics explained: Proteolytic cleavage
Sequencing data analyses and Assembly
- Importing and viewing trace data
  - Trace settings in the Side Panel
- Trim sequences
  - Trimming using the Trim tool
  - Manual trimming
- Assemble sequences
- Assemble sequences to reference
- Sort sequences by name
- Add sequences to an existing contig
- View and edit contigs and read mappings
- Reassemble contig
- Secondary peak calling
Primers and probes
- Primer design - an introduction
  - General concept
  - Scoring primers
- Setting parameters for primers and probes
  - Primer Parameters
- Graphical display of primer information
  - Compact information mode
  - Detailed information mode
- Output from primer design
- Standard PCR
- Nested PCR
- TaqMan
- Sequencing primers
- Alignment-based primer and probe design
- Analyze primer properties
- Find binding sites and create fragments
  - Binding parameters
  - Results - binding sites and fragments
- Order primers
Cloning and restriction sites
- Restriction site analyses
  - Dynamic restriction sites
  - Restriction Site Analysis
- Restriction enzyme lists
- Molecular cloning
- Gateway cloning
- Gel electrophoresis
  - Gel view
RNA structure
- RNA secondary structure prediction
- View and edit secondary structures
- Evaluate structure hypothesis
  - Selecting sequences for evaluation
  - Probabilities
- Structure scanning plot
  - Selecting sequences for scanning
  - The structure scanning result
- Bioinformatics explained: RNA structure prediction by minimum free energy minimization
  - The algorithm
  - Structure elements and their energy contribution
Expression analysis
- Experimental design
- Working with tracks and experiments
  - Data structures for transcriptomics
- Transformation and normalization
- Quality control
- Statistical analysis - identifying differential expression
- Feature clustering
  - Hierarchical clustering of features
  - K-means/medoids clustering
- Annotation tests
  - Hypergeometric tests on annotations
  - Gene set enrichment analysis
- General plots
BLAST search
- Running BLAST searches
  - BLAST at NCBI
  - BLAST against local data
- Output from BLAST searches
- Extract consensus sequence
- Local BLAST databases
- Manage BLAST databases
- Bioinformatics explained: BLAST
Appendix
- Graph preferences
- BLAST databases
- Proteolytic cleavage enzymes
- Restriction enzymes database configuration
- Technical information about modifying Gateway cloning sites
- IUPAC codes for amino acids
- IUPAC codes for nucleotides
- Formats for import and export
  - List of bioinformatic data formats
  - List of graphics data formats
- Gene expression annotation files and microarray data formats
- Translation Tables
- Custom codon frequency tables
- Matrices for alignment calculation
Bibliography

Installation on Mac OS X

Starting the installation process is done in the following way: When you have downloaded an installer, locate the downloaded installer and double-click the icon. The default location for downloaded files is your desktop.

Launch the installer by double-clicking on the "CLC Main Workbench" icon.

Installing the program is done in the following steps:

On the welcome screen, click Next.
Read and accept the License agreement and click Next.
Choose where you would like to install the application and click Next.
Choose if CLC Main Workbench should be used to open CLC files and click Next.
Choose whether you would like to create desktop icon for launching CLC Main Workbench and click Next.
Choose if you would like to associate .clc files to CLC Main Workbench. If you check this option, double-clicking a file with a "clc" extension will open the CLC Main Workbench.
Wait for the installation process to complete, choose whether you would like to launch CLC Main Workbench right away, and click Finish.

When the installation is complete the program can be launched from your Applications folder, or from the desktop shortcut you chose to create. If you like, you can drag the application icon to the dock for easy access.