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Console panel
MegAlign Pro Interface » Panels » Console panel
The Console panel displays information, messages and warnings about the operation in progress, or an operation that was recently performed. To display the console for a particular project: Click the tab with the project name, then open its console using the View >…
MegAlign Pro Interface
MegAlign Pro Interface
MegAlign Pro displays your sequences and results in customizable views and panels. The items displayed in the window, their locations, colors, fonts, etc. can all be changed to suit your preferences. To learn more, see the following topics: Welcome screen…
Troubleshooting “wrong type” or “too long” errors
Perform a Multiple Alignment » Perform an initial multiple sequence alignment » Troubleshooting “wrong type” or “too long” errors
Error message that sequences are the wrong type or are too long: After beginning an alignment, an error message will appear if the sequences are not of the appropriate type or are too long for the selected algorithm. If performing a MUSCLE or Clustal Omega alignment,…
Perform an initial multiple sequence alignment
Perform a Multiple Alignment » Perform an initial multiple sequence alignment
To perform the initial multiple sequence alignment: Select three or more sequences to align, or select nothing if you want to align all sequences. (Note: If you choose just two sequences, or if only two are present, you will be prompted to instead do a pairwise…
Panels
MegAlign Pro Interface » Panels
Settings panels allow you to optimize the look, contents and layout of the MegAlign Pro window. To learn what can be done within each panel and the expandable “sections” within each panel, click the links…
Troubleshooting “fatal error” in Clustal Omega alignments
Perform a Multiple Alignment » Perform an initial multiple sequence alignment » Troubleshooting “fatal error” in Clustal Omega alignments
Clustal Omega requires that each sequence in an alignment contain at least one residue that is not an ambiguity code. DNA sequences must contain at least one A, C, T or G. RNA sequences must contain at least one A, C, U, or G. Protein sequences must contain at…
Perform a Pairwise Alignment
Perform a Pairwise Alignment
MegAlign Pro supports the following multiple alignment methods: Clustal Omega, Clustal W, MAFFT, MUSCLE and Mauve. Click here for descriptions and a comparison of the different methods. To learn how to perform, modify, and troubleshoot multiple alignments, see the…
Part A: Add and align multi-segment files
Perform a Multiple Alignment » Try it! – Perform a MUSCLE alignment with multi-segment sequences » Part A: Add and align multi-segment files
If you have not yet downloaded and extracted the tutorial data, click here to download it. Then decompress (unzip) the file archive using the method of your choice. If a MegAlign Pro project is already open, choose File > New Alignment Project > Blank Document.…
Output files
Features » Map features (copy features to another sequence) » Output files
After running the Map Features step, the output consists of several files. File Name Notes PROJECT_map_features_console.txt Copy of the text that appeared for this mapping in the Console side panel in the MegAlign Pro user interface.…