NCBI feature table (.tbl) format

[mike.t]

I'm writing a script to generate a .tbl file from our genome annotation pipeline for processing by tbl2asn and submission to GenBank. I have a bunch of partial features, which are supposed to be indicated with arrow (< >) symbols. I think I have the forward strands figured out. What I don't know about is the referse strand.

Here's an example of a reverse strand gene where the end of the gene is unknown.:

Feature Scaffold_1044.1
<250    32      gene
                        locus_tag       CFIO01_11959
<250    198     CDS
149     32
                        locus_tag       CFIO01_11959
                        product  Hypothetical Protein
                        protein_id      gnl|ThonCIALE|CFIO01_11959
                        transcript_id   gnl|ThonCIALE|mrna.CFIO01_11959
                        codon_start     1
<250    198     mRNA
149     32
                        locus_tag       CFIO01_11959
                        product  Hypothetical Protein
                        protein_id      gnl|ThonCIALE|CFIO01_11959
                        transcript_id   gnl|ThonCIALE|mrna.CFIO01_11959

Problem is, tbl2asn still complains that the gene is missing a stop codon, so I guess it didn't recognize my arrow symbol. Does anyone have an example tbl file with partial features?

[GenoMax]

Here are some example .tbl files: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/examples.wgs