Automatic Annotations Highlighting

Enabling automatic annotation highlighting allows you to automatically calculate and highlight annotations on each nucleotide sequence opened.

Currently, the following annotation types support automatic highlighting:

  • Open reading frames
  • Restriction sites
  • Plasmid features

The corresponding groups of annotations found are stored in the Auto-annotations object in the Annotations editor, for example:

To disable/enable automatic annotation calculations, use the Automatic annotations highlighting menu button on the Sequence View toolbar:

To create a permanent annotation, click on the Make auto-annotations persistent context menu item and choose the annotation parameters in the Create Permanent Annotation dialog:

The following dialog will appear: