BioNumerics Plugin Tools

Querying tools  Find bands Tool to find find bands in a selected fingerprint type, based upon the relative position.  Find character value Tool to find specific character values in a selected character type, and for given characters.  Find string Tool to find a (sub)string in any field, without having to specify wildcards.  Find subsequence Tool to find subsequences for a selected sequence type. This search tool allows no mismatches to be included.  Find subsequence with mismatches Tool to find subsequences for a selected sequence type. This search tool allows mismatches to be included.  MLST search This search tool is especially designed for searching entries with combinations of character states in categorical data sets (i.e. multistate characters), such as Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST). One can search for all entries that have any specific combination of character states. For each character, it is even possible to enter several possibilities. When running the script, the user is first asked to select the character type that has to be used. A categorical data set should be selected, although the script works for binary and integer-value data sets as well. The data set may contain up to 60 different characters. In a second dialog box, which lists all the characters, the user can enter the selection criteria for each of the characters. The criteria for the different characters are combined with AND. For each character, pp to 20 comma separated values can be specified, which are then combined with OR. In the following example: Char1: 2,7 Char5: 4,8 only those entries will be selected that have state 2 or 7 for Char1 and state 4 or 8 for Char5. Found entries are selected in the database. It is even possible to allow a number of mismatches, i.e. allow the inclusion of entries that do not match one or more of the imposed search criteria. One can also specify to replace an existing selection of entries by the found entries, or to search within an existing selection of entries. Search criteria can be pasted from the character states of the currently selected entries (Paste from selected entries). Search criteria can also be pasted from a previous search (Paste from previous search). If the plugin tool is downloaded on a local computer, it appears as menu item Edit > MLST search in the main window.