soedinglab / MMseqs2-App

MMseqs2 app to run on your workstation or servers
https://search.foldseek.com
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[Enhancement] add consensus line to alignment output #20

Closed nwespe closed 3 years ago

nwespe commented 3 years ago

Hi, I am using the web server set up locally and it's great. I have a feature request from an end user for the alignment view. They would like to see a line between the Q and T sequences showing the match/mismatch/gap results, similar to the current NCBI BLAST output. Is this something you would consider implementing? Thanks!

milot-mirdita commented 3 years ago

I am using the Clustal alignment colors for this purpose, they should be visible in any modern browser (make sure your ad blocker does not disable custom fonts):

pairwise alignment clustal colored

I could additionally add that line if its helpful. You mean this line that contains the letter for match, + for similar, nothing for mismatch and gap, right?

nwespe commented 3 years ago

Ah, your response solves a mystery for us - this particular end user couldn't see the colors. Yes, that is the line I mean - I think the line would still be really helpful, since the colors make it hard to distinguish exact matches from similar, for example, and similar from mismatch. Thanks for the quick response!

milot-mirdita commented 3 years ago

Do you happen to know what browser the user was using?

nwespe commented 3 years ago

He is using Google Chrome with no apparent ad blocker.

milot-mirdita commented 3 years ago

Hm weird, chrome should have support for the color fonts since a long time (chrome 71 apparently).

Anyway I made a new release that contains this change (among others).

nwespe commented 3 years ago

Thanks!! We'll update our local version and I can also let you know if we solve the mystery of the blocked colors.

milot-mirdita commented 3 years ago

I made another release shortly after I wrote the last comment. Turns out the result view for multiple queries was broken in release 6.