Going further
Exporting and sharing
Your sequences leave in standard formats. Which one you pick decides how much of the map survives the trip.
The formats
Open Export sequence from the toolbar, or right-click a sequence in the file tree for the quick options.
| Format | File | Keeps annotations? | Reach for it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| GenBank | .gb | Yes | Almost always. Sequence and features together, and every tool reads it. |
| FASTA | .fasta | No | A tool that wants bases and nothing else — BLAST, an aligner, a synthesis form. |
| SnapGene | .dna | Yes | A colleague who works in SnapGene. See the note below. |
| SBOL | .xml | Partly | Standards-based part exchange. A minimal record — component and sequence. |
| Plain text | .txt | No | Pasting bases somewhere that wants only bases. |
| JSON | .json | Yes | Scripting against the full record yourself. |
What survives
GenBank round-trips well: feature names, types, spans, strands, colours and qualifiers all come back if you re-import. Compound features that span the origin of a circular plasmid are preserved.
File formats has the detail, including the two location constructs that are not supported.
Sharing with people
- A read-only link
- Creates a public URL that anyone can open without an account. They can look; they cannot change anything. You can set an expiry date and a password.
- Adding someone to the project
- For a collaborator who needs to work in it rather than look at it. They get an account and a role.
- Just the file
- Export GenBank and email it. Still the most portable option, and the one that needs nothing from the recipient.
Working as a team
Where the team controls are
Team settings, project sharing, invitations and the activity feed are reachable through the command palette and keyboard shortcuts rather than a button in the sidebar. Press ⌘K and search for Team, or use the shortcuts listed in Shortcuts.
Editing at the same time
Live co-editing of a document is not supported yet — two people in the same entry can overwrite one another. Split the work across separate entries, or agree who is editing.
Guests cannot export
Export is disabled while browsing without an account. If you have been evaluating GeneLoop as a guest and want to keep what you have made, sign up before you close the tab.