In the short time I’ve been playing EteRNA, I’ve discovered that there are two repetitive sequences of four to six mouse-click moves each that I need to do repeatedly. My idea is to automate these move sequences for speed, ease, and player convenience.
- Simple Base-Pair Swap: I envision this as a hot key (perhaps “S”?), that, when held down while clicking on either nucleotide in any base pair, will simply swap the nucleotides.
Currently, this operation requires either 4 mouse-clicks, or 2 key-presses and two mouse-clicks to complete.
Implementing the Simple Base-Pair Swap as a feature would eliminate either 3 of those mouse-clicks, or 1 of the key-presses and 1 of the mouse-clicks. This is perhaps not a big savings in time or motion when only doing a few operations, but potentially a huge time & motion savings when you need to try many recombinations
- Mutating Base-Pair Swap: I envision this also as a hot key (perhaps “M” ?), which when held down while clicking on:
A) a G-C pair, would first do a simple base-pair swap (as in #1 above), then additionally, also remove the Cytoseine, and instead insert a Uracil in its place, resulting in a U-G pair.
Conversely, when held down while clicking on:
B) a G-U pair, would first do a simple base-pair swap (as in #1 above), then additionally also remove the Uracil, substituting a Cytoseine in its place, resulting in a C-G pair
Currently this second operation requires either 6 mouse clicks, or 3 key-presses, and 3 mouse-clicks to complete.
Implementing the Mutating Base-Pair Swap as a feature would eliminate either 5 mouse-clicks, or.2 key-presses and 2 mouse-clicks - per operation - again, perhaps not a big savings in time or motion when only doing a few operations, but potentially a huge time & motion savings when you need to try many recombinations
