Write Annotations Element

This element retrieves the message(s) containing annotation data and saves the data to the specified file(s) in one of the appropriate formats (GenBank, GTF, etc.).

Element type: write-annotations

Parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefault valueParameter in Workflow FileType
Data storagePlace to store workflow results: local file system or a database.data-storagestring
Output fileLocation of the output data file. If this attribute is set, the “Location” slot in port will not be used.url-outstring
Output file suffixThis suffix will be used for generating the output file name.url-suffixstring
Existing fileIf a target file already exists, specify how it should be handled: overwrite, rename, or append (if supported by file format).Renamewrite-modenumeric
Available values are:
* 0 - Overwrite
* 1 - Append
* 2 - Rename
Document formatDocument format of the output file.genbankdocument-formatstring
Available values are:
* CSV
* GenBank
* GFF
Merge annotations tableIf true, all annotation tables from the dataset will be merged into one. The Annotation table name parameter value will be used as the result annotation table’s name.Falsemergeboolean

Input/Output Ports

The element has 1 input port:

Name in GUI: Input annotations

Name in Workflow File: in-annotations

Slot in GUISlot in Workflow FileType
Set of annotationsannotationsannotation-table-list
Sequencesequencesequence
Source URLurlstring