Menu | Description |
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File | A set of project level operations. Example: create, open, etc. a project; open a document; List of operations: new project, new document from text, new workflow, access remote database to download a file, connect to shared database, search NCBI genbank, open, open as, save all, save project as, export project, close project, recent files, recent projects, exit. |
Actions | Various actions associated with the active window. Example: exportList of operations: go to position, add, copy, analyze, align, closing, export, remove, edit , analyze a sequence using different plugins sequence, statistics (for the Sequence View); go to position, add, copy, colors, highlighting, edit, align, change the tree, statistics, view, export, advanced, consensus mode, close active window (for the Alignment Editor). |
Settings | Application, plugins Preferences and tools plugin settings. |
Tools | Various tools, independent of an active window. This menu is extended by different plugins. Example: HMMER2 / HMMER3 tools, SITECON, Workflow DesignerList of operations: sanger data analysis, NGS data analysis, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, cloning, primer, search for TFBS, HMMER tools, build dotplot, generate sequence, show counters, expert discovery, query designer, workflow designer. |
Window | A list of active windows and basic manipulations with the windows. ExampleList of operations: close active view, close all windows, tile windows, select next cascade windows, next window, previous window. |
Help | Application help and check for updates. List of operations: open UGENE user manual, open workflow designer manual, open query designer manual, view UGENE documentation online, visit UGENE website, check for updates, open start page, about. |
The menus can be dynamically populated with new actions added by plugins. Check the Plugins documentation to learn how each plugin affects global and context menus.