Hi Carton.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:15:41 +0800, Carton Chen wrote:

> Dear Kim,
> I saw the new version of Artemis. I downloaded it, add the ,command 
> suffix and test ran it a little bit. I like it. It is significantly 
> faster. more responsive, and more convenient.

> A thought occurred to me recently regarding Artemis. It would be great 
> if you let the ORF arrows show info regarding their codon preferences 
> in color: Different colors (say from Red to orange to yellow to green 
> to blue to cyan) for different range (100 to 0%) of G/C in the third 
> position of codon,  This way one may look at the ORF and readily decide 
> which one is likely coding in G+C rich or G+C poor genomes.

That's an interesting suggestion.  I'm CCing this to the Artemis
mailing list so others can comment.


> Another alternative of course is to give the ORF the same color that 
> matches the corresponding curve in the CC Frame Plot. That would be 
> very helpful, too.

That sort of thing has been discussed in the past, but it never made
it to the top of the priority list.


> Another suggestion:
>       At least in prokaryote mode (if there is), the initial ORF mapped 
> should start with the first potential initiation codon after the last 
> stop codon, not just the first codon after. The latter adds a lot extra 
> work - at least one initial move for each potential ORF.

I'm sure there is reason for this behaviour.  I'll leave it to others
to comment.

Kim.

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