Hi, thanks for this cool program. I have used Artemis for updating my sequence annotations. Compared to Artemis, Ugene appears easier for mol biologists and provides convenient tools like a restriction analysis. I will recommend my labmates to try this.

However, I would like to see an option of saving new annotations as a new GenBank file, etc. It seems that current version (1.4.1) only allows export as a fasta format. If there's a way to do this, please let me know. Thanks.

Thanks, Ivan. Your suggestion helped me to find out a right way.

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At first, the way you said didn't give me a complete Genbank file (see image 1). But when I make a new copy of the original Genbank file (which I want to modify) by "save a copy.." menu, a lock icon with the new document (see red arrowheads in image 2) is gone. Now I make a  new annotation on the new document "test.gb", save the new document, and it has a new annotation as well as the sequence (image 3).

Apparently eliminating the "lock" icon (i.e. making a document editable) solved the problem. Post any simpler solutions.

big T, you found exactly the right way to append new annotations to existing documents.

In fact, UGENE cannot modify documents which were created by other tools. Instead UGENE has following models for working with new annotations: saving them as a new distinct file, which contains annotations only (the way I described) and creating a modifiable copy of the original file (the way you found).

Also, if you are interested in modifying original files see http://ugene.unipro.ru/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1238829036