Features screen

The Features screen is the first wizard screen of the Map Features dialog, and allows you to choose the features you want to include or exclude in the mapping.

*Note: This dialog is optional, and you may click Next, if desired, to skip to the next screen. However, note that this will cause all features except the source features to be selected. In order to select all features, it is necessary to change the drop-down menu to All features, as described below the following image.

• Use the upper drop-down menu to elect to map All features, Features matching those you will specify in the subsequent row(s) of the dialog, or Features except those specified in the subsequent row(s).

• Use the lower drop-down menu to select the feature type to match (or not match), e.g., gene, CDS, exon, intron, mRNA, tRNA, promoter, misc_binding, etc. To specify more than one feature type, use the plus (+) button to add additional “Features” rows. If you want to further limit the search to features matching (or not matching) particular qualifiers, check the Filter box, then choose a qualifier (gene, /product, /locus_tag, /note or /db_xref) from the drop-down menu to its right. In the right-most textbox, enter the text that the qualifier must match or not match (e.g., /gene = thrL) in order for the feature to be removed in the output file. You may use wildcards in this box if you wish (e.g., /gene = thr*).

The image below shows an example of how the screen might look after specifying the desired options:

Click Next to move to the Options screen.