bioLegato - The Edit Menu

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The Edit Menu

Cut

Copy selection to internal clipboard and delete from display

Copy

Copy selection to internal clipboard.

Sequences can be pasted into other programs. However, as of BioLegato 0.7.9, the format used is a pseudo-GenBank format, which is not understood by most programs. This will be changed to FASTA format in a future release.

Paste

Paste selection from internal clipboard to cursor location

Sequences selected from documents or other programs can be pasted directly into the BioLegato window. Supported formats include FASTA, GenBank, GDE, and Flat.

Select All

Select all items in name pane or sequence pane

Group

Current selection will be made into a group. Insertions and deletions of gaps or other characters are performed on all members of a group.

Get Info

Show or modify data for the selected sequence.
This menu also makes it possible to read alternative color schemes for displaying nucleotides or amino acids.

Select sequence by name

Select all sequences whose names match a search string

Sort

sort rows by keyword

Copy out

Write selection to the external clipboard file. Copy out and Paste in make it possible to move data from one bioLegato window to another.

program	external clipboard file
bldna	$HOME/.bldna_clipboard
blprotein	$HOME/.blprotein_clipboard
blnalign	$HOME/.blnalign_clipboard
blpalign	$HOME/.blpalign_clipboard
bldata	$HOME/.bldata_clipboard
blmarker	$HOME/.blmarker_clipboard
bltree	$HOME/.bltree_clipboard

Paste in

Import contents of external clipboard file into the current bioLegato window.

Extract

Open a new bioLegato window containing only the selected data

Extract subset of sequences to new window

Select sequences in the current bioLegato window using a list of names to choose the selection. Send to a new bioLegato window, a text edit window, or a file.