I have looked through the mail archives and Artemis manual but
can't find what I'm after. In the NCBI
program SEQUIN, there is a nice update function for sequences that
are undergoing refinement
or extension (eg. if you are sequencing a genome but wish to start
annotating before it is fully
completed). You can import an update, SEQUIN will align the new with
the old, and then you
can replace the old sequence with the new, and all your annotations
are placed in the correct
new positions on the new sequence.
In Artemis, how can you do this? There doesn't seem to be any 'update
sequence' function.
If I copy or move features across to the new sequence (entry), it
just pastes the identical base number ranges, without aligning first
and working out the new
base ranges. The edit functions are for small changes (or at least
ones that don't overlap existing
features).
BTW, Sequin is quite a powerful annotation tool, but strangely, it
doesn't accept their own
standard file format, Genbank (go figure...).
Regards, Mike Dyall-Smith
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Mike Dyall-Smith
Dept. Microbiology and Immunology
University of Melbourne
Ph: +61 3 8344 5693
Fx: +61 3 9347 1540
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