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Remote Request plugin

Remote Request is used to annotate sequences with information stored in remote databases.
The result of the request is stored as a set of annotations to the sequence.

To run remote database search open DNA sequence view, select the sequence region to analyse and click "Analyse->Request remote database" item from the context menu:

Remote Request menu

In the dialog you can select remote database to use and set up length filters that will keep only results of the required length.

If the database in the list supports only amino-acid input and your sequence is in nucleic form, plugin will automatically convert the sequence into 3 (or 6) possible translations using translation table from the active sequence view.

Remote Request menu

Note, that most of the remote databases require to wait for a certain period of time before executing your query. In this case you can use 'Log' tab and check for the request state manually:

Remote Request menu

All remote database adapters are written in a script language similar to Java script and located in $UGENE/scripts folder. If you are experienced with JavaScript programming you can create your own custom database adapters using existing ones as reference.

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