diff --git a/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/entity/gff3Object.dto.ts b/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/entity/gff3Object.dto.ts
index f4502e253..dac43ccfb 100644
--- a/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/entity/gff3Object.dto.ts
+++ b/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/entity/gff3Object.dto.ts
@@ -28,3 +28,8 @@ export interface FeatureRangeSearchDto {
   start: number
   end: number
 }
+
+export interface FeatureIdsSearchDto {
+  featureIds: string[]
+  topLevel?: boolean
+}
diff --git a/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.controller.ts b/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.controller.ts
index df5fd97e8..22006282f 100644
--- a/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.controller.ts
+++ b/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.controller.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 import {
+  Body,
   Controller,
   Get,
   Logger,
   Param,
   ParseBoolPipe,
+  Post,
   Query,
 } from '@nestjs/common'
 
-import { FeatureRangeSearchDto } from '../entity/gff3Object.dto'
+import {
+  FeatureIdsSearchDto,
+  FeatureRangeSearchDto,
+} from '../entity/gff3Object.dto'
 import { Role } from '../utils/role/role.enum'
 import { Validations } from '../utils/validation/validatation.decorator'
 
@@ -37,14 +42,23 @@ export class FeaturesController {
    * or if search data was not found or in case of error throw exception
    */
   @Get('getFeatures')
-  getFeatures(@Query() request: FeatureRangeSearchDto) {
+  getFeaturesByRange(@Query() request: FeatureRangeSearchDto) {
     this.logger.debug(
-      `getFeaturesByCriteria -method: refSeq: ${request.refSeq}, start: ${request.start}, end: ${request.end}`,
+      `getFeatures endpoint: refSeq: ${request.refSeq}, start: ${request.start}, end: ${request.end}`,
     )
 
     return this.featuresService.findByRange(request)
   }
 
+  @Post('getByIds')
+  findByFeatureIds(@Body() request: FeatureIdsSearchDto) {
+    this.logger.debug(`: featureIds: ${JSON.stringify(request.featureIds)}`)
+    return this.featuresService.findByFeatureIds(
+      request.featureIds,
+      request.topLevel,
+    )
+  }
+
   @Get('count')
   async getFeatureCount(@Query() featureCountRequest: FeatureCountRequest) {
     this.logger.debug(
diff --git a/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.service.ts b/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.service.ts
index 21cc0054d..87f078048 100644
--- a/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.service.ts
+++ b/packages/apollo-collaboration-server/src/features/features.service.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,33 @@ export class FeaturesService {
     return
   }
 
+  async findByFeatureIds(featureIds: string[], topLevel?: boolean) {
+    const foundFeatures: Feature[] = []
+    // all featureIds that have already been fetched
+    const fetchedFeatureIds = new Set<string>()
+
+    for (const featureId of featureIds) {
+      if (fetchedFeatureIds.has(featureId)) {
+        this.logger.debug(`FeatureId ${featureId} already fetched, skipping...`)
+        continue
+      }
+
+      try {
+        const feature = await this.findById(featureId, topLevel)
+        foundFeatures.push(feature)
+        for (const id of feature.allIds) {
+          fetchedFeatureIds.add(id)
+        }
+      } catch (error) {
+        this.logger.error(
+          `Error occurred while fetching feature ${featureId}`,
+          error instanceof Error ? error.stack : String(error),
+        )
+      }
+    }
+    return foundFeatures
+  }
+
   /**
    * Get feature by featureId. When retrieving features by id, the features and any of its children are returned, but not any of its parent or sibling features.
    * @param featureId - featureId