Issue
Read outputs for sequence alignments have changed and suddenly look "scattered out-of-order"
Before:
Now:
Environment
Molecular Biology Multisequence Alignments
Cause
Previously, Benchling sorted alignment rows by "position" by default (sort by the first non-gap base). We recently changed this behavior to sort by name initially.
Resolution steps
Change to sort by "position". Users can adjust this when viewing the alignment with the "sort by" dropdown in the menu, and it will save the order for that particular alignment, but all new alignments will be sorted by name initially.