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Sequin 2.14 -- New Stand-alone Submission Program
Introduction
Sequin is the latest multi-platform (Mac/PC/Unix) stand-alone software tool developed by the NCBI for submitting entries to the EMBL, GenBank, or DDBJ sequence databases. The Sequin home page at NCBI lists all the the latest developments, new questions in the Frequently Asked Questions section, and the most recent version of the help documentation. The home page also contains a link to the new and much improved version of the Sequin Quick Guide, a step-by-step description of how to prepare your Sequin submission, a must-read for all new and seasoned Sequin users.
Changes for Sequin 2.14
Network Entrez, an NCBI tool for accessing bibliographic, sequence, and structure records is now fully integrated into Sequin. As before, users can download sequences from Entrez to view or to edit and resubmit to the databases. Now, users can also view any type of record on demand from within Sequin. Users are reminded that they can only update their own records this way.
PowerBLAST, a version of the client for the popular BLAST software for sequence comparisons, is now available from within Sequin. Users can compare their sequence to sequences in the nucleotide and protein databases and view the from results within Sequin.
A new algorithm is now used to calculate global sequence alignments. You can have Sequin calculate and display the alignment between a sequence in the record and another sequence in a file. In the sequence editor, select the option "Align with" under the Edit menu.
Sequin will now recognize sequence alignments which have been saved in NEXUS Interleaved and NEXUS Contiguous formats. Examples of these formats are in the Sequin help documentation.
Records can now be viewed with two new Display Formats, Summary and Sequence. Summary format shows the range of any sequence alignments in the record. Sequence format shows the sequence(s) in the record along with any associated features.
The location of certain menu items has been changed. All features and descriptors are now accessed from the Annotate menu.
A variety of minor bugs have been fixed (affecting all platforms).
Information supplied by: Francis Ouellette
Resources and further information
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Sequin home page -- information and software
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/
Contact: info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
European Bioinformatics Institute
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/
Sequin software mirror site
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/sequin/
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