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Tutorial: BLAST Searching from Gene Inspector

Gene Inspector allows you to perform a BLAST using the Internet. This analysis requires that you set up your internet connection parameters first, so that the program knows how to communicate with the database servers. If you do not have an internet connection, you will not be able to do this tutorial. Note that different […]
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Tutorial: Creating Your Own Analysis Tables

The Gene Inspector allows you to create a number of different kinds of tables for use in analyses. The Gene Inspector’s built-in table editor makes it easy.
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Tutorial: Using Bookmarks in the Gene Inspector Notebook

Bookmarks can be attached to selected objects and used to remember specific locations in a GI notebook. Bookmarks are automatically added to the Notebook menu. Selecting a bookmark from the menu takes you to the location of that bookmark in the notebook.
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Tutorial: Dot Matrix Analysis – Another Interactive Analysis

This tutorial will show you how to work with the dot matrix analysis interactive tool.
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Tutorial: Testcode – An Interactive Analysis

The Gene Inspector is an interactive application. This means that you can perform almost any function at almost any time. It also means that you can interact with some output objects to alter their appearance, rerun an analysis or even continue the analytical process as described in this tutorial for Testcode, and in Tutorial 18: […]
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Tutorial: Displaying Formatted Sequence Information

Although the sequence editor is ideal for manipulating sequences and displaying alignments, there is often a need to display formatted sequences including translations and restriction sites. This can be done by creating a features object in the notebook.
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Tutorial: Restriction Enzyme Digests

This tutorial will show you how to work with restriction enzyme digest.
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Tutorial: Using Predefined Analysis Suites

This tutorial will teach you how to use predefined analysis suites in Gene Inspector.
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Tutorial: Customizing and Saving Analysis Setup Suites

You can standardize parameters and set up to run suites of analyses repeated in Gene Inspector.
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Tutorial: Appendices – Hiding Large Amounts of Data

Sometimes analyses produce a large amount of data that you might not want to keep displayed in the GI Notebook at all times. Yet, it would be nice to be able to keep the data and refer to it as needed. You can do this by creating an Appendix. Each appendix object resides in its […]
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