Import Features allows you to annotate an unannotated or partially annotated sequence with annotations (or features) contained within a BED/GFF/GTF/GFF3 file.
The Sequence ID (SeqID) contained within all features in the file will be shown in a dialog along with the number of features for each SeqID and the region of the sequence that these will be annotated against. A warning will be displayed if any of the features are outside of the region to be annotated
A dialogue will be shown with the number of annotations that have been added. If you annotate a blank sequence (e.g. a fasta file) the resulting features may be initially hidden. However, you can easily show them from the Graphics Palette tree view.
Note that due to the lack of strict standards across the many different file formats it may be that a potential duplicate is not recognised as such because the wording or keyword is different. In the majority of cases some degree of manual curation of the annotated sequence will be required. In all cases MacVector will err on the side of caution and will never throw away any potentially interesting or important information contained within a feature. Only entries that are 100% the same (after being parsed during the import) will be considered as duplicates. MacVector will never class a feature as a duplicate if the START, STOP or FEATURE TYPE are different in any way. Even if they differ by just a single base.
Automatically display restriction sites, ORFs and missing features on your sequence.