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23 <title>Creating Sequence Features</title>
26 <strong>Creating Sequence Features</strong>
28 Jalview can create sequence features from the matches of a <a
29 href="search.html">regular expression search</a>, or from the
30 currently selected area via the <strong>"selection→Create
31 sequence feature"</strong> entry in the <a
32 href="../menus/popupMenu.html">selection area popup menu</a>. In
33 both cases, the <strong>Create Features</strong> dialog box will
37 <img src="crnewfeature.gif">
39 <p>Select or enter the attributes for the features being created,
40 and then press OK to create the new features.</p>
41 <p>Each attribute is described below:
43 <li><strong>Sequence Feature Name</strong>
44 <p>Either give the new features a new name or use the menu to
45 re-use an existing feature name.</p></li>
46 <li><strong>Feature group</strong>
47 <p>Enter a new group name, or re-use an existing group from
48 the pull-down menu.</p></li>
49 <li><strong>Feature Colour</strong>
50 <p>Keep the existing colour for this feature's name and group,
51 or select the colour box to open a colour chooser to pick a
52 different one.</p></li>
53 <li><strong>Description</strong>
54 <p>Enter a description for all the features being created.
55 Each feature defined on a sequence may have its own description
56 that will be displayed in the tooltip for the feature in that
61 <em>Sequence Feature Creation was introduced in Jalview Version