diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/BlastController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/BlastController.php
index af5c658d9db7b8c21e1ef60f2c7fdfb5a781fc49..7af10f10d844d2c2710350a6531e3e5a1fcb6a37 100755
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/BlastController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/BlastController.php
@@ -73,13 +73,17 @@ class BlastController extends Voyager\VoyagerBaseController
           
           /*
           ** Create the dnafeatures Database
+          ** (including the feature's type in its name)
+          ** in format:
+          ** >featurename_FEATCAT_featurecategory
           */
           $dnafeatures = DnaFeature::all();
           // Create an updated fasta file of all DNA features
           $dnafeaturesfasta = $storagedir . "dnafeatures.fasta";
           $FastaFile = fopen($dnafeaturesfasta, 'w');
           foreach ($dnafeatures as $dnafeature) {
-              fwrite($FastaFile, ">$dnafeature->name\n");
+              $extendedname = $dnafeature->name . "_FEATCAT_" . $dnafeature->category;
+              fwrite($FastaFile, ">$extendedname\n");
               $toprint = Convert2Fasta($dnafeature->sequence);
               for ($i=0; $i< count($toprint); $i++) {
                   fwrite($FastaFile, "$toprint[$i]\n");
diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php b/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php
index f7055ed415bbe3524660d08a47161421ab212f54..e626fadd9b47390ea6065b967f7db8c7450fce2a 100755
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php
@@ -35,12 +35,7 @@ function is_dna($seq){
 
 function blast2cirdna($infile, $outfile, $start, $end){
         $newtxt = "Start" . "\t" . $start . "\n" . "End" . "\t" . $end . "\n"."\n";
-/*
-        if(!$input = fopen($infile, "r")){
-                echo("ERROR in blast2cirdna: Unable to open data file ". $infile );
-                exit;
-                }
-*/
+
         if(!$output = fopen($outfile, "w")){
                 echo("ERROR in blast2cirdna: Can't open file " . $outfile . " for writing");
                 exit;
@@ -50,26 +45,36 @@ function blast2cirdna($infile, $outfile, $start, $end){
         $txt_string = trim($txt_string, "\n");   //remove whitespace
         $lines = explode("\n", $txt_string);
 
-        $newtxt = "group" . "\n" . "\n";
-        fwrite($output, $newtxt);
+        $newtxt = "group" . "\n" . "\n"; fwrite($output, $newtxt);
 
         // For all the lines within the TXT
         foreach ($lines as $newline) {
 
                 $line = explode("\t", $newline);
-                //echo  "Block". "\t" . $line["1"].  "\t" . $line["6"]. "\t" . $line["7"] . "\n";
-
-                $newtxt =  "label" . "\n". "Block". "\t";
-                fwrite($output, $newtxt);
-                $newtxt = $line["6"]. "\t" . $line["7"] . "\t" . "3" . "\n";
-                fwrite($output, $newtxt);
-                $newtxt = $line["1"] . "\n";
-                fwrite($output, $newtxt);
-                $newtxt =  "endlabel" . "\n" ;
-                fwrite($output, $newtxt);
+                $fullname = $line["1"];
+                $names = explode("_FEATCAT_", $fullname);
+                $featname = $names["0"];
+                $featcat = $names["1"];
+                // set color according to feature category
+                if ($featcat == "PRO"){        $color = "9";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "REG") { $color = "13";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "TER") { $color = "9";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "SEL") { $color = "1";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "REP") { $color = "8";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "TAG") { $color = "0";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "LOC") { $color = "0";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "ORI") { $color = "10";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "HYB") { $color = "12";
+                } elseif ($featcat == "OTH") { $color = "13";
+                } else { $color = "14";
+                }
+
+                $newtxt =  "label" . "\n". "Block". "\t"; fwrite($output, $newtxt);
+                $newtxt = $line["6"]. "\t" . $line["7"] . "\t" . $color . "\n"; fwrite($output, $newtxt);
+                $newtxt = $featname . "\n"; fwrite($output, $newtxt);
+                $newtxt =  "endlabel" . "\n" ; fwrite($output, $newtxt);
         }
-        $newtxt =   "\n". "endgroup";
-        fwrite($output, $newtxt);
+        $newtxt =   "\n". "endgroup"; fwrite($output, $newtxt);
         fclose($output);
 }