Bio-Rad DCode™ Universal Mutation Detection System - Manual (Page 23)

Copy
The Copy command copies the selected text to the clipboard for later use. The selected text
is not deleted. The text on the clipboard can later be inserted by the Paste command. The text
on the clipboard is also available for pasting into another application.
WinMelt keyboard short cut: Control-C
MacMelt keyboard short cut: Command-C
Paste
The Paste command inserts the text from the clipboard to the current cursor position. The text
that has been placed on the clipboard can also come from another application. This function can
transfer a sequence from other sequence analysis program into WinMelt/MacMelt.
WinMelt keyboard short cut: Control-V
MacMelt keyboard short cut: Command-V
Select All
The Select All command selects all of the text. Use this function to quickly select all of the
sequence or other text for later copying or deletion.
8.3 Sequence Menu
The Sequence Menu contains commands for adding, editing, deleting and exporting
sequences. The commands are used with the Project View.
New
The New command will insert an empty sequence into the project. There can be a maximum
of 50 sequences in one project.
Import...
The Import command will import a sequence from a text file into the current project. A
standard File Open dialog box will be shown to select the file containing the sequence. The
sequence will be truncated to 10,000 nucleotides if longer (9,000 in Windows 3.1x). Only
the nucleotide symbols "acgtu and ACGTU" are allowed. Other symbols will be removed
from the sequence. Sequence files in GenBank, EMBL, FASTA, or plain text format will be
automatically recognized.
In WinMelt the dialog box will initially show only files ending with the ".dna" extension.
Select "All files (*.*)" to show all files.
Display...
The Display command will open the Sequence Display window of the selected sequence from
the project. The Sequence Display window allows editing of the sequence, the description,
melt probability calculation, and graphing option.
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