After assembling contigs with GelMerge, use the contig editor, GelAssemble, to review and modify the alignments. After choosing a contig for review, GelAssemble lets you edit the individual sequences in that contig to resolve inconsistencies. GelAssemble creates a consensus sequence that uses the IUB nucleotide ambiguity codes. You can modify a sequence and change the alignment in the same way you edit text with a text editor. Although GelMerge assembles and aligns contigs automatically, you can assemble contigs manually using GelAssemble. For example, you could manually assemble separate contigs that do not share sufficient overlap for GelMerge to assemble automatically. You can also separate fragments from a contig if you believe they should not be included. Once you are satisfied with a contig, you can store it in the sequencing project
database.
GelAssemble
seq03      > GTTCATCAGTCTTGGTGGAGAAGTTCGACAGATGCCATTGGCAGATTTCACCGATGGTTC 220
seq01      > GTTCATCAGTCTTGGTGGAGAAGTTCGACAGATGCCATTGGCAGATTTCACCGATGGTTC 540
CONSENSUS  > GTTCATCAGTCTTGGTGGAGAAGTTCGACAGATGCCATTGGCAGATTTCACCGATGGTTC 540
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