Overview of the features map

With the GeneFinder Tutorial database open....

Double click on the Test_Sequence class in the Classes window and then double click the object EM:D13249 in the KeySet window. The features map (fmap or sequence map) appears.

Now click on the GeneFind.. button at the top right of screen. A message box appears; press the Continue button. GeneFinder features appear; these are stop codons, ATG codons, blocks of coding potential, splice donor and acceptor sites (see diagram below)

With the right hand mouse button click on the GeneFind.. button and select [AutoFind gene] from the menu that appears. A message box appears giving the maximum and minimum co-ordinates of the search, and the score for the "temp_gene" which was found; press Continue. The temp_gene is the GeneFinder prediction and is marked on the fmap.

Some GeneFinder features are now marked in green. These are the ATG (AUG) translation initiation codon, splice donor and acceptor sites and an open reading frame corresponding to the terminal exon of this predicted gene. Note that the GeneFinder prediction does not correspond to the gene from the EMBL record.

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