diff --git a/backend/common/models/dataset.js b/backend/common/models/dataset.js
index 6e3328862..61ba0e6d6 100644
--- a/backend/common/models/dataset.js
+++ b/backend/common/models/dataset.js
@@ -240,12 +240,16 @@ module.exports = function(Dataset) {
         if (feature.end !== undefined) {
           value.push(feature.end);
         }
-        array_features.push({
+        let f = {
           name: feature.name,
           value,
           value_0: feature.val,
           blockId: blocks_by_name[feature.block]
-        });
+        };
+        if (feature.values) {
+          f.values = feature.values;
+        }
+        array_features.push(f);
       });
       // create new features
       return models.Feature.create(array_features);
diff --git a/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results-view.js b/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results-view.js
index 625a0d528..2d7b00810 100644
--- a/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results-view.js
+++ b/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results-view.js
@@ -24,7 +24,20 @@ const tableHeight = 500;  // pixels
  * This also aligns with createTable() : colHeaders below.
  */
 const columnsKeyString = [
-  'name', 'chr', 'pcIdentity', 'lengthOfHspHit', 'numMismatches', 'numGaps', 'queryStart', 'queryEnd', 'pos', 'end'
+  'name',           // query ID
+  'chr',            // subject ID
+  'pcIdentity',     // % identity
+  'lengthOfHspHit', // length of HSP (hit)
+  'numMismatches',  // # mismatches
+  'numGaps',        // # gaps
+  'queryStart',     // query start
+  'queryEnd',       // query end
+  'pos',            // subject start
+  'end',            // subject end
+  'eValue',         // e-value
+  'score',          // score
+  'queryLength',    // query length
+  'subjectLength',  // subject length
 ];
 /** Identify the columns of dataFeatures and dataMatrix.
  */
@@ -43,11 +56,6 @@ const t_view = 0;
  */
 export default Component.extend({
 
-  /** Similar comment to data-csv.js applies re. store (user could select server via GUI).
-   * store is used by upload-table.js : getDatasetId() and submitFile()
-   */
-  store : alias('apiServers.primaryServer.store'),
-  auth: service('auth'),
   transient : service('data/transient'),
 
   /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -61,12 +69,18 @@ export default Component.extend({
 
   didReceiveAttrs() {
     this._super(...arguments);
+
     let promise = this.get('search.promise');
     if (promise) {
       promise.catch(() => {
         this.set('statusMessage', 'The search did not complete');
       });
     }
+
+    /** not clear yet where addDataset functionality will end up, so wire this up for now. */
+    this.registerDataPipe({
+      validateData: () => this.validateData()
+    });
   },
 
   /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -121,6 +135,21 @@ export default Component.extend({
         if (row[c_end] !== undefined) {
           feature.end = Number(row[c_end]);
         }
+        // place the remainder of the columns into feature.values
+        feature.values = row.reduce((v, c, i) => {
+          switch (i) {
+          case c_name:
+          case c_chr:
+          case c_pos:
+          case c_end:
+            break;
+          default:
+            v[columnsKeyString[i]] = c;
+            break;
+          }
+          return v;
+        }, {});
+
         return feature;
       });
     dLog('dataFeatures', features.length, features[0]);
diff --git a/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results.js b/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results.js
index a8f01d7df..c33e42b16 100644
--- a/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results.js
+++ b/frontend/app/components/panel/upload/blast-results.js
@@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ const dLog = console.debug;
  * /Feature/dnaSequenceSearch
  */
 export default Component.extend({
+  /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+  // support for upload-table
+
+  /** Similar comment to data-csv.js applies re. store (user could select server via GUI).
+   * store is used by upload-table.js : getDatasetId() and submitFile()
+   */
+  store : alias('apiServers.primaryServer.store'),
+  auth: service('auth'),  // used by upload-table.js : submitFile()
+
+  /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
   apiServers: service(),
   blockService : service('data/block'),
   queryParams: service('query-params'),
@@ -150,7 +161,7 @@ export default Component.extend({
    */
   unviewDataset(datasetName) {
     let
-    store = this.get('apiServers').get('primaryServer').get('store'),
+    store = this.get('store'),
     replacedDataset = store.peekRecord('dataset', datasetName);
     if (replacedDataset) {
       let
diff --git a/frontend/app/templates/components/panel/upload/blast-results.hbs b/frontend/app/templates/components/panel/upload/blast-results.hbs
index e7b7c3a73..f7685af70 100644
--- a/frontend/app/templates/components/panel/upload/blast-results.hbs
+++ b/frontend/app/templates/components/panel/upload/blast-results.hbs
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
       {{panel/upload/blast-results-view
         viewDataset=viewDataset
         search=search data=data active=active tableVisible=tableVisible tableModal=tableModal
+        registerDataPipe=(action (mut this.dataPipe))
         }}
     {{/ember-wormhole}}
 
diff --git a/frontend/app/utils/panel/upload-table.js b/frontend/app/utils/panel/upload-table.js
index 1f23d13f3..7ff7bfaae 100644
--- a/frontend/app/utils/panel/upload-table.js
+++ b/frontend/app/utils/panel/upload-table.js
@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ export default {
       that.set('nameWarning', null);
       var table = that.get('table');
       // 1. Check data and get cleaned copy
-      that.validateData()
+      let validateData = (that.validateData && (() => that.validateData())) ||
+          (that.dataPipe.validateData && (() => that.dataPipe.validateData()));
+      validateData()
       .then((features) => {
         if (features.length > 0) {
           // 2. Get new or selected dataset name