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Figure 8-6 ABI data sheet info<br />

Selecting Bases<br />

<strong>Sequencher</strong> offers a number of ways to select bases. You can choose comm<strong>and</strong>s from<br />

the Select menu or you can use a keyboard combination. To select bases in the opposite<br />

orientation, press <strong>and</strong> hold the Shift key when using any Select Next… comm<strong>and</strong> (from<br />

the menu or with a keyboard shortcut).<br />

Finding Ambiguous Bases<br />

One of the most frequently executed comm<strong>and</strong>s is Next Ambiguous Base under the<br />

Select menu. You can use this comm<strong>and</strong> in the Sequence Editor or the contig editor. By<br />

using this comm<strong>and</strong> in the consensus sequence of a contig, <strong>Sequencher</strong> will display the<br />

next position in your contig that contains an ambiguity or disagreement. The shortcut for<br />

this comm<strong>and</strong> is Ctrl+N (for more on keyboard shortcuts see Appendix 23 “Keyboard<br />

shortcuts”). If you use the Shift key with this key combination, you will go back to the<br />

previous disagreement.<br />

Once you have used any of the Select Next comm<strong>and</strong>s, <strong>Sequencher</strong> will activate the<br />

space bar to execute that operation. If you use either the menu comm<strong>and</strong> or the shortcut<br />

key combination two consecutive times, <strong>Sequencher</strong> will remind you that this easier<br />

alternative is available.<br />

Finding Open Reading Frames (ORF)<br />

Choose Next Met to Stop (>0b) to highlight the next pair of start <strong>and</strong> stop codons in<br />

one of the three forward reading frames. The number of bases shown in this comm<strong>and</strong><br />

depends on whether you specified a preference for a minimum length in the <strong>User</strong><br />

Preferences. (For instructions on how to set a specified minimum length for open<br />

reading frames see Chapter 21 “Customizing <strong>Sequencher</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>User</strong> Preferences”.) If you<br />

set preferences to highlight ORFs only when they are of some minimum length, the menu<br />

comm<strong>and</strong> will display the number of bases you specified.<br />

SEQUENCHER <strong>4.8</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> for Windows © 1991 - 2007 Gene Codes Corporation, Inc. All rights reserved.<br />

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