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+<head><title>Alignment Consensus Annotation</title></head>
+<body>
+<p><strong>Alignment Consensus Annotation</strong></p>
+<p>The consensus displayed below the alignment is the percentage of the modal
+ residue per column. By default this calculation takes includes gaps in column.
+ You can choose to ignore gaps in the calculation by right clicking on the label
+ "Consensus" to the left of the consensus bar chart.
+<p>If the modal value is shared by more than 1 residue, a "+" symbol
+ is used in the display for the simple reason that it is not possible to display
+ multiple characters in a single character space.
+<p><strong>Copying the consensus sequence</strong></p>
+<p>Select the <strong>"Copy Consensus Sequence"</strong> entry from
+the consensus annotation label to copy the alignment's consensus sequence to the
+clipboard.
+</p>
+</body>
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