Genetic codes are used for translating and reverse translating sequence data. The Modify Genetic Codes command opens a dialog box that enables you to:
- designate a default genetic code for performing auto-translations
- create a new genetic code
- delete codons from a genetic code to reduce the amount of degeneracy when reverse translating an amino acid sequence to a DNA sequence.
Autotranslations are controlled by the annotated sequence formatting. When enabled, they display selected features with a translation beneath the main sequence display.