Main Menu Overview
| Menu | Description |
|---|---|
| File | A set of project-level operations. |
| Actions | Various actions associated with the active window. |
| Settings | Preferences and plugin settings. |
| Tools | Various tools, extended by different plugins. |
| Window | A list of active windows and basic manipulations with the windows. |
| Help | Application help and check for updates. |
File
List of operations:
- new project
- new document from text
- new workflow
- open
- open as
- open from clipboard
- access remote database
- search NCBI Genbank
- connect to UGENE shared database
- save all
- save project as
- export project
- close project
- recent files
- recent projects
- exit
Actions
List of operations:
- go to position
- add
- copy/paste
- analyze
- align
- cloning
- export
- remove
- edit (for the Sequence View);
- go to position
- add
- copy/paste
- colors
- highlighting
- edit
- align
- tree
- statistics
- view
- export
- advanced
- consensus mode
- close active window (for the Alignment Editor).
Tools
List of operations:
- sanger data analysis
- NGS data analysis
- BLAST
- multiple sequence alignment
- cloning
- primer
- search for TFBS
- HMMER tools
- build dotplot
- random sequence generator
- query designer
- workflow designer
Window
List of operations:
- window layout (multiple or tabbed)
- close active view
- close all windows
- tile windows
- cascade windows
- next window
- previous window
Help
List of operations:
- open UGENE user manual
- view UGENE documentation online
- visit UGENE website
- check for updates
- open start page
- about
Unipro UGENE (macOS only)
List of operations:
- about Unipro UGENE
- preferences
- services
- hide Unipro UGENE
- hide others
- show all
- quit Unipro UGENE
The menus can be dynamically populated with new actions added by plugins. Check the Plugins documentation to learn how each plugin affects global and context menus.