Usage Overview

Users and client systems interact with the GLUE database and functionality via the Command Layer.

The core set of GLUE commands support operations such as:

• Adding, deleting or modifying objects in the database
• Interrogating the database using a rich query language
• Deriving frequencies of amino acid resdiues within a certain set of sequences
• Scanning sequences for specific nucleotide or amino acid patterns

Further GLUE command functionality is accessed using Modules.

These provide built-in functionality, customised on a project-specific basis.

GLUE contains an extensive range of module-based functionality including:

• Importing sequences into the database from NCBI Nucleotide
• Extracting and normalising data in a GenBank record
• Computing new alignments
• Assigning a genotype to sequences using a maximum-likelihood based method
• Exporting sequences or alignments from the database for use outside GLUE

Users may also add their own project-specific functionality using the Scripting Layer.