[EMBOSS] Keep feature in union of GenBank files

[Peter]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Prompted by this thread on seqanswers.com I tried using EMBOSS 6.3.1
> union to merge multiple GenBank format records (in a single file) into a
> single GenBank record with the concatenated sequence. This worked,
> but the output file has no features:
>
> http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7812
>
> e.g.
>
> union -sequence many.gbk -sformat genbank -outseq merged.gbk -osformat
> genbank -auto
>
> Is support for features something that could be added to union please?
>

Thanks to Nick Loman for the seqanswers.com thread for pointing out this
functionality is present but must be enabled explicitly with "-feature Y".

Apologies for the noise.

Peter

P.S. Why isn't this the default?