Align by Family Dialog Box

Select the family to use for aligning specified sequences. The relevant features will be computed, and the corresponding feature highlights shown. These highlights can be turned off from the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor Panel

To open this dialog box, choose Other Tasks → Align by Family in the Multiple Sequence Viewer/Editor Panel

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Align by Family Dialog Box Features

Sequence Family option menu

Select family features to perform alignments of sequences from the same family. The choices are Antibody, GPCR, Kinase, and Custom.

  • Antibody option

    Select to align by antibody families.

  • GPCR option

    Select to align by GPCR families. The alignment will identify the closest possible classification.

  • TCR option

    Select to align by T-Cell Receptor Region values.

  • Kinase option

    Select to align by kinase families.

  • Custom option

    Select to align by custom families. Choosing this option will display the Load reference alignment file button and an information icon. Hovering over the icon displays requirements for the custom family reference alignment file. Upon browsing to and loading a custom family file, a new option will be added to the Sequence Family dropdown menu for the custom family, labeled as the title of the FASTA file or by the default: "My family title." Multiple custom families can be added, but only one can be selected for custom family alignment.

Align selected sequences only button

Select this option to align the selected sequences only, else all sequences will included.

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