While the help notes for the alignment editor says that gaps can be created, I can't see how! Surely I'm missing something... Selecting a residue or set of residues to create a region, then applying ctrl-left-arrow (or right arrow) yields an error complaining of a lack of gaps in the region ("No gap available in <seq name>"). This makes me think that regions can only be moved if they are already bounded by gaps. Which in turn leaves me stumped as how to create the initial gaps manually...! What I had expected was for it to insert new gaps to the let of the region if applying ctrl-right-arrow to a region and vice versa for using ctrl-left-arrow. I'm using 2.180 on Mac OS X 10.4.2 Grant -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Grant Jacobs Ph.D. BioinfoTools ph. +64 3 478 0095 (office, after 10am) PO Box 6129, or +64 27 601 5917 (mobile) Dunedin, gjacobs@bioinfotools.com NEW ZEALAND. Bioinformatics tools: deriving knowledge from biological data Bioinformatics tools - software development - consulting - training 15 years experience in bioinformatics ready to solve your problem Check out the website for more details: http://www.bioinfotools.com The information contained in this mail message is confidential and may be legally privileged. Readers of this message who are not the intended recipient are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immed- iately and destroy the original message. This applies also to any attached documents.