The Create Menu

New Feature

Create a new feature in the default entry with a key of "misc_feature", a location of "1" and no qualifiers.

Create Feature From Base Range

Create a new feature in the default entry with a key of "misc_feature", no qualifiers and a location that exactly matches the selected range of bases. If no bases are selected an error will be reported.

New Entry

Create a new entry with no name and no features. The new entry will become the default entry (see the section called The Default Entry in Chapter 1).

Mark Open Reading Frames ...

Create a feature for each "large" open reading frame in the sequence. The default minimum size of a "large" open reading frame can be changed by changing the minimum_orf_size option (see the section called minimum_orf_size in Chapter 4).

Mark Empty ORFs ...

Create a feature for each open reading frame that doesn't already contain a feature.

Mark Open Reading Frames In Range ...

Create a feature for each "large" open reading frame in a range of bases. A range must be selected before using this command.

Mark From Pattern ...

Open a text requester to ask the user for a base pattern, then create a feature for each group of bases that matches that pattern. A new entry will be created to hold the features with the name "matches: <pattern>", where <pattern> is the pattern that was entered be the user. Any IUB base code can be used in the pattern, so for example, aanntt will match any six bases that start with "aa" and ends with "tt".

Table 3-1. IUB Base Codes

R = A or GS = G or CB = C, G or T
Y = C or TW = A or TD = A, G or T
K = G or TN = A, C, G or TH = A, C or T
M = A or C V = A, C or G

Mark Ambiguities

Create a new feature for each block of ambiguous bases. The new features will have a key of misc_feature and will created in a new entry called "ambiguous bases".