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+package jalview.io.gff;
+
+/**
+ * A class to hold constants shared by creators and consumers of GFF or feature
+ * data
+ */
+public class GffConstants
+{
+  // SequenceOntology terms are to be found in SequenceOntologyI
+
+  /*
+   * clinical_significance may be an attribute of 
+   * sequence_variant data from Ensembl
+   */
+  public static final String CLINICAL_SIGNIFICANCE = "clinical_significance";
+
+  /*
+   * not instantiable
+   */
+  private GffConstants()
+  {
+  }
+}