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MSA Viewer

The MSA viewer appears when the dataset includes alignment data. It can be opened from the sidebar Sequence Alignment section or from the timeline shortcut.

ControlMeaning
Open AlignmentOpens the floating alignment viewer.
Follow Current WindowKeeps the viewer synchronized with the current input tree or timeline segment.

If Follow Current Window is disabled, the MSA viewer keeps its current viewport while the tree movie moves.

When Follow Current Window is enabled, synchronization follows the current input-tree/window index. During an interpolated transition, the tree viewer distinguishes the source tree and target tree; the MSA viewer follows the corresponding input window rather than redrawing for every intermediate interpolation frame.

Region Override

ControlMeaning
Region start / endSets a manual alignment-column range.
SetApplies the region override. If start is greater than end, the values are swapped.
ClearRemoves the manual region and returns to the dataset or timeline-derived region.

Region overrides are useful when you want to inspect a specific coordinate range independent of the active movie frame.

View Actions

ControlMeaning
Zoom in alignmentIncreases alignment zoom.
Zoom out alignmentDecreases alignment zoom.
Reset alignment viewRestores the default alignment viewport.

The viewer also has horizontal and vertical scrollbars for navigating long alignments and many taxa.

Row Order

ControlMeaning
Match Tree OrderReorders alignment rows to match the visible tree leaf order.
Reset OrderRestores the default alignment row order.

Matching tree order helps compare moving clades with their sequence rows.

Coloring

The alignment viewer supports these color schemes:

SchemeUse
None (Empty)Removes residue background coloring.
DefaultGeneral residue coloring.
Clustal / Clustal2Clustal-style residue classes.
Hydrophobicity, Zappo, Taylor, Buried, Cinema, Helix, Lesk, Mae, Strand, TurnProtein-oriented property schemes.
Nucleotide (DNA), Purine (DNA)DNA-oriented schemes.
Identity to Consensus, Similarity to ConsensusConsensus-relative coloring.
GrayscaleLow-color overview.

Residue Letters

ControlMeaning
LettersShows or hides residue letters over the colored alignment cells.

Turn letters off when zoomed out or when color blocks are more useful than individual residue labels.