Hi Feifei It seems that we can not guarantee the order. Although I did try label and accession_id on a feature and the order did remain label, accession_id between saving out to separate files. Were you adding new features or annotations on features?
Artemis does an auto-save once changes are made. It will backup a file as #filename.gff# unless you use save it out manually from the File menu. Regards Tim On 9/20/11 7:42 AM, "Feifei Xu" <feifei...@ebc.uu.se> wrote: > Yes. I am using the gff3 file as the base for manual annotation. I am keeping > it versioned to keep track of what has been changed. So if there is no way to > retain the order of attributes, it's just killing the the version system. > > So far I managed to retain the order by changing "accession_id" to something > else. But it would be good to know how Artemis saves gff3 files. I need to > know if the order will always be retained, or it's just purely random? > > BTW, is there any way to auto save the gff3 file in artemis? > > Thanks! > Feifei > > On 19 sep 2011, at 18.01, Scott Cain wrote: > >> Hi Feifei, >> >> Is there a reason you want to retain order? The order of attributes >> should not matter. >> >> Scott >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Feifei Xu <feifei...@ebc.uu.se> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Is there any way to conserve the order of the attributes (column 9) in gff3 >>> file? >>> >>> The problem I have now is between the two tags "label" and "accession_id". >>> If I load a version (v1) of gff3 file with "label" before "accession_id", >>> then it will be saved into a new version (v2) of gff3 file with >>> "accession_id" before "label". When I thought that I can live with the >>> order in v2, and tried to save v2 into yet another version (v3), then the >>> order changed back to "label" before "accession_id". >>> >>> It would be great if there is any way to fix the order. I will also try to >>> change the tags, see if that will do. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Feifei >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Artemis-users mailing list >>> Artemis-users@sanger.ac.uk >>> http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Scott Cain, Ph. D. scott at scottcain dot >> net >> GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/) 216-392-3087 >> Ontario Institute for Cancer Research > > > _______________________________________________ > Artemis-users mailing list > Artemis-users@sanger.ac.uk > http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users _______________________________________________ Artemis-users mailing list Artemis-users@sanger.ac.uk http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users
