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# Create Gene / Edit location

- OCCURRENCE
- DESCRIPTION
- EXAMPLES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## OCCURRENCE

### ARB_NT/Genome/Gene Information/GENE/Create

### ARB_NT/Genome/Gene Information/FIELDS/Edit gene location

## DESCRIPTION

### Creates a new gene entry or edits the location of an existing gene entry.

### When creating a new gene, type a unique gene name into 'Gene'.

### To edit the location of the gene you may either

- edit the 'Location' field or
- edit the detailed fields in the lower part of the window.

### Changing any of them updates the other.

### The field 'Status' gives hints about the validity of the location.

### Certainty fields may contain

    Character     Meaning
    =             exact position
    <             somewhere before position
    >             somewhere behind position
    +/-           directly behind/before position

### '+' and '-' are special and only allowed for locations like '7^8' (which marks the location between base number 7 and 8)

### When you are satisfied with the entered location, press 'Create gene'.

### In case of editing the location of an existing gene, the gene is updated everytime the location has a valid state. That allows an open ARB_EDIT4 which automatically searches and highlights the gene sequence.

## EXAMPLES

### Example locations:

10..15
<10..>15
join(10..15,20..350)
join(10..15,complement(20..350))
20^21

## WARNINGS

### None

## BUGS

### No bugs known