Creating Document

To create a new sequence file from a text, select the File ‣ New Document from Text option in the main menu or Create Sequence on the main screen.

The Create Sequence dialog appears:

You can input the created sequence into the Paste Data Here field. You can type or paste sequences in either FASTA or text format.

The following Custom Settings are available:

Alphabet — here you can select the alphabet:

The following alphabets are available: Standard DNA, Standard RNA, Extended DNA, Extended RNA, Standard Amino, Extended Amino, and Raw.

Skip Unknown Symbols / Replace Unknown Symbols With — you can select either to skip unknown input symbols or to replace them with a specified symbol.

Save Sequence to File — the location of the created document.

File Format — the format of the created document. Currently available formats are FASTA and Genbank.

Sequence Name — the name of the sequence in the created document.

The created document will be added to the current project and opened in the Sequence View.