[Jalview-discuss] Jalview - Failed translation

[James Procter]

Hi Adrien.

adrien wrote:
> I have come across a recurrent problem in Jalview, sometimes when I want
> to translate a cDNA sequence, Jalview returns an error stating :
> 
> "Please select at least three bases in at least one sequences in order
> to perform a cDNA translation"
> 
> This doesn't happen with all the sequences and when it does, I usually
> have more than 3 bases selected in more than one sequence.
> 
> Does this have to do with the way I select the sequences or am I missing
> something ?
Jalview usually makes this complaint when it cannot create even a single
amino acid from the selected region. Its possible that the error box
also pops up when several sequences are selected, but in one case, there
are less than three bases in the selected region. Can you send me an
example of an alignment where this occurs ?  You should be able to
repeat the error by copying the selected region to a new alignment
window, and then trying the 'translate cDNA' option again.

> Any help is welcome :)
we'll see what can be done. The translate cDNA function hasn't been as
thoroughly bugtested as other aspects of the program, so thanks for
querying this.

Jim