Chapter 3. The ACT Main Window
This chapter describes the main viewing window of ACT. First is an overview of the window and a description of the menus. The menus are also accessible from the pop-up menu in the view windows (see the section called Other Mouse Controlled Functions and the section called The Pop-up Menu for more).
Overview of the Comparison Window
The following images show a breakdown of the main ACT window taken from a screen shot of a two sequence comparison. To see examples of comparing three or more sequences see the ACT examples page.
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The menus for the main window (described later in this chapter). Each menu contains a sub-menu to control each of the sequences in the comparison. The Display menu (see the section called The Display Menu) is the exception since it controls the overall display. Note that all the menus apart from the File menu and the Display menus can also be accessed via a pop-up menu on the third mouse button. See the section called Other Mouse Controlled Functions and the section called The Pop-up Menu for more.
This a view of the subject sequence of the comparison. See the section called The DNA Views for more information on how to operate this part of the window.
This part of the window shows the comparison between the two sequences. See the section called Comparison View for more information.
The query sequence of the comparison. See the section called The DNA Views for more.