1. From the MainViewer Applications menu select DataInterface.
2. Open a database for example Sample.
3. Close DataInterface component.

1. From the MainViewer Applications menu select Property.
2. Now from the Property Viewer Menu select Property then protein then Protien Name

Note: This is how the property is defined

1. From the Property Viewer Menu select New
2. In the Entry field put in an internal name for your property with no spaces. For example hab
3. In the Description field enter the name of your property that will appear in Envision Menus. For example Organism Habitat
4. In the Type field select what type of data you are expecting. In our example select string
5. In the Object field what biological object the property maps to. In our example select protein
6. In the Group files select a group that best describes you property. In our example select whatever
7. In the large text box at the bottom input a description of your Property. In our example enter habitat where organims was collected
8. Now press Add Property to Database
9. Now close the Property Viewer

1. From the MainViewer Applications menu select Information.
2. Select Protein tab at the bottom left you should see your property Organism Habitat
3. Select Protein Name to display the property in the right hand worksheet
4. Select Organism Habitat to display the property in the right hand worksheet
5. Now double click on the vibrio_salomicida.a (row) and Organism Habitat(column) cell.
6. You should now be able to enter a value for our example enter cold sea

Note This information is not saved until you save the database, see step 6

1. From the MainViewer Application menu select Alignment
2. From the Alignment Viewer Listen menu select selection
3. From the MainViewer Application menu select Create Set
4. From the Create Result Set Viewer Menu select New the Result Set
5. In the result set R0, input protein Organism Habitat, substr, cold then press S to generate a selection
6. Now turn you attention to the Alignment Viewer you should see that vibrio_salmonicida.a is selected.
7. It is selected because cold is a substring of cold sea which you entered as a value for Organism Habitat

1. To permanently store your property you need to save the database
2. From the MainViewer Applications menu select Database
3. From the Save option select OK
4. Note This will save your changes into the database
5. After the database is saved close the Database viewer.