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- <p>
- <strong>What's new ?</strong>
- </p>
- <p>
- Jalview 2.8.2 is the first release produced by our new core
- development team.<br /> It incorporates many minor improvements and
- bug-fixes, and new features for working with 3D structure data,
- shading alignments by secondary structure and generation of alignment
- figures as Scalable Vector Graphics. <br />The majority of
- improvements in this version of Jalview concern the desktop
- application. As ever, the highlights are detailed below,
- and the full list is given in the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview.2.8.2">Jalview 2.8.2 Release Notes</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Annotation visualisation</strong> <br /> The alignment window
- includes a new <em>Annotations</em> menu which provides controls for
- the layout and display of sequence, group and alignment associated
- annotation rows. It also now includes the <em>Autocalculated
- Annotation</em> submenu (formerly located in the View menu), which
- includes settings for the calculation and display of sequence
- consensus, logos, and amino acid conservation for the alignment and
- subgroups.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Sequence associated annotation</strong><br /> New controls
- have also been added to the Sequence ID popup menu for the propagation
- and display of sequence associated annotation such as secondary
- structure assignments and disorder predictions. Annotation associated
- with one or a group of sequence already shown on the alignment may be
- shown or hidden, and any available annotation from 3D structure or
- calculations performed in other Jalview windows can be copied to the
- alignment
- <em>via</em> the <strong>Add Reference Annotation</strong> option.<br />
- The <strong>Colour by annotation</strong> function has also been
- improved, allowing secondary structure annotation to be used to shade
- sequences and alignment columns. Protein sequences can be coloured
- according to the presence of a helix or sheet at each position, and
- RNA sequences can be shaded according to each structure's stem/helix
- pattern - which enables different RNA folding topologies to be quickly
- identified.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>3D Structural data analysis and display</strong><br />
- Jalview now employs Jmol's PDB data API to retrieve secondary
- structure assignments made by the DSSP algorithm. It can also employ
- web services to obtain secondary structure assignments from RNA
- structures. These assignments are shown as sequence associated
- annotation for sequences which have cross-references to the PDB, or
- have had PDB files associated with them via the <em>Structures</em>
- submenu of the sequence ID popup menu. The extraction and display of
- secondary structure and B-factor column annotation is controlled <em>via</em>
- a new <strong>Structure</strong> tab in the Jalview Desktop's
- Preferences dialog box.
- </p>
- <p>
- <Strong>Interoperation with UCSF Chimera</Strong><br /> The desktop
- application can now be configured to employ UCSF Chimera for the
- display of 3D structure data. UCSF Chimera is a python-based
- high-performance molecular graphics and animation system developed by
- the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualisation, and Informatics at the
- University of California.<br />Jalview employs the 'StructureViz'
- communication mechanism developed for Cytoscape by Morris et al.
- (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17623706) in 2007. This mechanism
- allows Jalview to send commands to Chimera, enabling structures to be
- superimposed and shaded according to associated multiple aligmment
- views. <br />Support for Chimera in Jalview 2.8.2 is experimental, and we
- would appreciate feedback ! Please send your comments to
- jalview-discuss@jalview.org, and keep up to date with this feature's
- development via http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1333.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Export of alignment figures as Scalable Vector
- Graphics</strong> <br />Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files are now widely
- supported by web browsers and graphics design programs, and allow
- high-quality graphics for interactive exploration and publication.
- Jalview now supports the generation of SVGs interactively (via the
- Export) menu, and from the command line for server-side figure
- generation.
- </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>What's new in Jalview 2.10 ?</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Jalview 2.10 is the next major release in the Jalview 2 series. Full
+ details are in the <a href="releases.html#Jalview.2.10.0">Jalview
+ 2.10 Release Notes</a>, but the highlights are below.
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Ensembl sequence fetcher.</strong> Annotated Genes,
+ transcripts and proteins can be retrieved via Jalview's new <a
+ href="features/ensemblsequencefetcher.html">Ensembl REST
+ client</a>. Support for import of Ensembl data allows:
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Sequence variant data.</strong> Jalview
+ propagates variant annotation on genomic regions onto transcripts and
+ protein products, complete with associated metadata such as
+ clinical significance.</li>
+ <li><strong>Aligned locus view.</strong> Transcripts
+ retrieved for a gene identifier via the Ensembl or
+ EnsemblGenomes sequence databases are automatically aligned to
+ their reference genome, and introns hidden from the view.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><strong>Working with structures.</strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>More accurate structure mappings.</strong>
+ Jalview now utilises the PDBe's SIFTS database (at EMBL-EBI)
+ to <a href="features/siftsmapping.html">match structures
+ to UniProt sequences</a>, even for structures containing
+ multiple copies of a sequence.</li>
+ <li><strong>Import structures as mmCIF</strong>. Jalview
+ now downloads data from the EMBL-EBI's PDBe site as <a href="features/mmcif.html">mmCIF</a>.
+ This allows very large structures to be imported, such as the HIV virus capsid assembly.</li>
+ <li><strong>Chimera users will need to upgrade to
+ 1.11.1.</strong>If you use Chimera to view structures downloaded by
+ Jalview 2.10, you will need to make sure you are running the
+ latest version of <a href="features/chimera.html">Chimera</a>.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><strong>UniProt Free Text Search.</strong> The new search
+ dialog for UniProt allows you to browse and retrieve sequences
+ from UniProt with free-text search and more structured queries</li>
+ <li><strong>Reference sequence alignment view.</strong>.
+ Jalview 2.9 introduced support for reference sequences. In 2.10,
+ when a reference sequence is defined for the alignment, the
+ alignment column ruler is now numbered according to the reference
+ sequence. The reference sequence for alignment views can also be
+ saved and restored from Jalview projects.</li>
+ <li><strong>Ensembl and ENA 'show cross-references'
+ support.</strong>The Calculations menu's <strong>'Show cross-references'</strong> will now
+ offer Ensembl as well as EMBLCDS and Uniprot when CDS/Protein
+ mapping data is available for download or display.</li>
+
+ </ul>
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