General

Single Target Query Library Definition Panel

Each Task Template can have one or more Query Libraries to perform the typing or identification queries.

Queries can be automatically performed or invoked manually. This preference can be specified in the definition panel of a query.

After a query has been performed, a query result is produced. This query result has one of three states:

• succeeded
• ambiguous
• failed

An Allele Typing query can additionally have a forth state:

• new alleles can be assigned

If the result has succeeded, then the query has stored result values in the result fields of the Task Entry (from which they can be exported or compared).

Different Types of Queries

There are different types of Query Libraries depending on the target count and the library type (e.g. local FASTA-libraries or remotely requested web services).

• MLST Query Libraries

Querying a local MLST library for 5-7 targets

• Allele Typing Query Libraries

Querying a local multi-locus library for a high number of targets, e.g. for MLST+

• NCBI GenBank Online Query

Querying NCBI GenBank online

• Single Target Query Library

Querying a local sequence library