The following sequence formats are recognized by GenBeans:

	Format	Description	Extensions	Icons	Highlighting
	FASTA		fasta, fa, fas, faa, fsa		yes
	GenBank		gb, genbank		yes
	EMBL		embl		yes
	INSD	International Nucleotide Sequence Database	xml		no
	UniProt		pro		yes
	Genpept	GenBank translation	gp, genpept, genpep		yes
	Plain	Any text file, numbers and spaces are ignored	seq		no
	GCK	Gene Construction Kit	gck, gcc		no

 

These sequence formats are automatically identified by the Explorer and represented with specific icons. The content is automatically analyzed by GenBeans and, when sequences are found, varied sequence analyses and export options become available in the contextual menu accessed by a right mouse click on the file node. Click in the Open menu found in the contextual menu or a simple double-clicking on the node will open the files in the editor. The most widely used formats have a special syntax highlighting to simplify the reading. These color schemes can be adjusted in the Fonts & Colors category of the Options panel.

Associations between sequence files and extensions can be changed in the Options > Miscellaneous > Files panel.

See Also

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