3 <title>Sequence Feature Settings Dialog Box</title>
6 <p><strong>Sequence Feature Settings Dialog Box</strong></p>
7 <p>Select <strong>View→Feature Settings...</strong> menu entry in
8 an alignment window to open the feature settings dialog box, which
9 allows you to precisely control the presence and appearance of
10 sequence features for the current alignment.</p>
11 <center><img src="appFeatureSettings.gif" align="center"><br>Sequence Feature
12 Settings for the Jalview Application</img></center>
13 <p>The top section of the dialog box lists all the sequence feature
14 groups, along with a tickbox for each that controls whether its
15 features are displayed. The table in the middle lists all the
16 features in the currently selected groups, along with their display
17 colour and whether they are currently being displayed (only the
18 ticked features and groups are displayed). <strong><em>You can change the
19 colour used for a feature in the associated alignment by clicking on
20 its colour box.</em></strong></p>
21 <p><strong>Transparency and Feature Ordering</strong></p><p>
22 It is important to realise that sequence features are often not
23 distinct and often overlap (for example, a metal binding site
24 feature may be attached to one position along a stretch of sequence
25 marked with a secondary structure feature).</p>
26 <p>The ordering of the sequence features in the dialog box list is the
27 order used by jalview for rendering sequence features. A feature at
28 the bottom of the list is rendered <em>below</em> a feature higher
29 up in the list.<br><em><strong>You can change the order of a feature
30 by dragging it up and down the list with the
31 mouse</strong></em>.</p>
33 The <strong><em>transparency slider setting</em></strong> (currently only available
34 in the application version) controls the visibility of features
35 rendered below other features. Reducing the transparency will mean
36 that features at the top of the list can obscure features lower
37 down, and increasing it allows the user to 'see through' the upper
38 layers of a set of features.</p>
39 <p><strong><em>You can save all features, with their current colours and visibility
40 in a Jalview format file. </em></strong>