CINEMA User Guide

Finding and opening sequences and alignments

Opening and saving sequences & alignments, Finding & obtaining sequences from remote databases, Using Non-UTOPIA or "legacy" CINEMA alignments

Using the CINEMA interface

Alignment views, navigating an alignment, changing the level of detail, multiple views onto the same alignment, the consensus sequence, tool tips, the context menu

Editing an alignment

Inserting & removing gaps, sliding sequences, interacting with temporary groups of sequences, creating persistent sequence groups, the Sequence Group Manager, subdividing an alignment with breakpoints, changing the sequence order, removing sequences from an alignment, viewing different chains of PDB sequences

Motifs & fingerprints

Defining a motif, editing a motif, re-validating a motif, using the Motif Manager, compiling a fingerprint of motifs, adding breakpoints to a motif, saving a motif as an image, printing a motif

Working with annotations

The Annotations Manager, showing & hiding specific annotations, choosing different drawing styles for annotations, Changing the order of annotations, Resizing annotations

Using remote bioinformatics services

Access to remote bioinformatics services in CINEMA, Automatic alignment services, Sequence annotation services

Visualizing structure with Ambrosia

Visualizing structure, highlighting regions in Ambrosia, showing annotations in Ambrosia

Searching for sub-sequences in an alignment

Basic searching, searching using regular expressions, fuzzy searching, search result-guided alignment

Miscellaneous topics

Printing an alignment, generating an image of an alignment, editing the colour scheme of an alignment

Customising CINEMA

Changing the way an alignment is displayed