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Introduction to CLC Main Workbench
- Contact information and citation
- System requirements
- Installation and startup
- Workbench Licenses
- Plugins
- Network configuration
User interface
- View Area
- Zoom functionality in the View Area
- Toolbox panel
- Processes tab and Status bar
- Element Info view
- History view
- Workspace
- List of shortcuts
Data management and search
- Navigation Area
- Working with non-CLC format files
- Customized attributes on data locations
- Searching for data in CLC Locations
  - Quick Search
  - Local Search
- Backing up data from the CLC Workbench
- Working with AWS S3 using the Remote Files tab
User preferences and settings
- General preferences
- View preferences
- Data preferences
- Advanced preferences
- Export/import of preferences
- Side Panel view settings
Printing
- Selecting which part of the view to print
- Page setup
- Print preview
Connections to other systems
- CLC Server connection
  - CLC Server data import and export
- AWS Connections
- Public S3 buckets
Importing data
- Standard import
Exporting data and graphics
- Data export
- Export graphics to files
  - File formats
- Export graph data points to a file
- Copying and pasting data from an open view
Working with tables
- Table view settings and column ordering
- Filtering tables
  - Simple filtering
  - Advanced filtering
Data download
- Search for Sequences at NCBI
  - NCBI search options
  - Handling of NCBI search results
- Search for PDB Structures at NCBI
- Search for Sequences in UniProt (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL)
  - UniProt search options
  - Handling of UniProt search results
- Sequence web info
Running tools, handling results and batching
- Running tools
  - Running a tool on a CLC Server
- Handling results
- Batch processing
Metadata
- Creating metadata tables
  - Importing metadata
  - Creating a metadata table directly in the Workbench
- Associating data elements with metadata
  - Associate Data Automatically
  - Associate Data with Row
- Working with data and metadata
- Moving, copying and exporting metadata
Workflows
- Creating and editing workflows
- Workflow elements
- Launching workflows individually and in batches
- Advanced workflow batching
  - Batching workflows with more than one input changing per run
  - Multiple levels of batching
- Template workflows
  - Trim and Map Sanger Sequences
- Managing workflows
Viewing and editing sequences
- Working with sequences
- Working with sequence lists
- Working with annotations
- Sequence element information
- View as text
3D Molecule Viewer
- Importing molecule structure files
- Viewing molecular structures in 3D
- Customizing the visualization
  - Visualization styles and colors
  - Project settings
- Tools for linking sequence and structure
- Align Protein Structure
  - Example: alignment of calmodulin
  - The Align Protein Structure algorithm
- Generate Biomolecule
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
- Tools for tree construction
- Tree Settings
- Additional tree views
  - Tree table view
- Bioinformatics explained
General sequence analyses
- Annotate with GFF/GTF/GVF files
- Create Complexity Plot
- Create Dot Plot
- Create Sequence Statistics
  - Bioinformatics explained: Protein statistics
- Extract Sequences
- Join Sequences
- Pattern Discovery
- Shuffle Sequence
- Motif
Nucleotide analyses
- Convert DNA to RNA
- Convert RNA to DNA
- Reverse complements of sequences
- Translation of DNA or RNA to protein
- Find open reading frames
Protein analyses
- Protein charge
- Antigenicity
- Hydrophobicity
  - Hydrophobicity graphs along sequence
  - Bioinformatics explained: Protein hydrophobicity
- Download Pfam Database
- Pfam domain search
- Download 3D Protein Structure Database
- Find and Model Structure
  - Create structure model
  - Model structure
- 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 Sequences 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
- Extract Consensus Sequence
Primers and probes
- Primer design - an introduction
- Setting parameters for primers and probes
- 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
  - Results - binding sites and fragments
- Order primers
Cloning and restriction sites
- Create Sequence Constructs
  - Create Sequence Constructs output
- Homology Based Cloning
- Gateway cloning
- Restriction Analysis and 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
- Transformation and normalization
- Quality control
- Feature clustering
  - Hierarchical clustering of features
  - K-means/medoids clustering
- Statistical analysis - identifying differential expression
- Annotation tests
  - Hypergeometric Tests on Annotations
  - Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
- General plots
BLAST search
- BLAST against local data
- BLAST at NCBI
- Output from BLAST searches
- Local BLAST databases
- Manage BLAST databases
- Bioinformatics explained: BLAST
Utility tools
- Extraction
  - Extract Annotated Regions
- Filtering
  - Filter Based on Name
  - Filter on Custom Criteria
- Renaming
  - Rename Elements
  - Rename Sequences in Lists
- Reports
- Sequences
Appendix
- Graph preferences
- 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
- Custom codon frequency tables
- Matrices for alignment calculation
Bibliography

Export annotations to a GFF3 format file

Annotations selected in the Annotation Table view () can be exported to a GFF3 format file by selecting the option Export Selection to GFF3 File... in the right-click menu (figure 14.20).