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<title>What's new ?</title>
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<p>
- <strong>What's new ?</strong>
- </p>
- <p>
- The Jalview 2.7 release features new web services, and important
- improvements to the way in which Jalview handles alignments and
- associated PDB structures, as well as numerous minor improvements and
- bug fixes. Version 2.7 of the JalviewLite applet also features a
- significantly enhanced Javascript API enabling it to be more easily
- integrated with javascript based web applications. <br /> For full
- details see the <a href="releases.html#Jalview2.7">Jalview 2.7
- release history</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Highlights in Jalview Desktop Version 2.7</strong>
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>New <a href="features/viewingpdbs.html">structure viewer
- options</a>:
- <ul>
- <li>Colour and superimpose 3D structures of complexes and
- multi-domain chains using several different alignments</li>
- <li>Drag and drop to associate PDB files with sequences that
- have the same name</li>
- <li>Open and superimpose all associated structures for the
- current selection</li>
- </ul>
- <li>New web services for <a href="webServices/shmr.html">alignment
- analysis</a></li>
- <li>Improved graphical user interface for <a
- href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws">JABAWS</a>services.
- </li>
- <li>Sort associated alignment views option in tree viewer</li>
- <li>Default colours for <a
- href="colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">shading alignment
- by quantitative annotation</a>.
- </li>
- <li><a href="webServices/newsreader.html">Jalview Desktop RSS
- reader</a> - following important updates at <a
- href="http://www.jalview.org/feeds/desktop/rss">http://www.jalview.org/feeds/desktop/rss</a>
- </ul>
-
- <p>
- <strong>Issues Resolved (a select list - see the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview2.7">release history</a> for full details)
- </strong>
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong><br /> Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix
+ release for Jalview version 2.8. <br /> As usual you can find the
+ highlights below, and the comprehensive list is given in the <a
+ href="releases.html#Jalview2.8.0b1">Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes</a>.
</p>
- <p>
- <strong>Issues in the Jalview Desktop</strong>
- <ul>
- <li>Problems viewing associated structures for sequences
- retrieved from UNIPROT</li>
- <li>Problems viewing Jalview projects from older versions in
- version 2.6</li>
- <li>Preservation of hidden annotation rows and tree bootstrap
- values in projects</li>
- <li>Newly added JABAWS servers not always visible in web services
- menu</li>
- </ul>
- <strong>Issues specific to the JalviewLite Applet</strong>
+ <p>
+ This bug fix release includes numerous minor enhancements made over
+ the last 12 months. Importantly, it is also the first release that
+ provides Jalview as a trusted application, signed with a certificate
+ donated to us by <a href="certum.eu">Certum</a>.
+ </p>
+ <strong>Enhancements and new features</strong>
<ul>
- <li>Layout problems when lots of annotation rows are displayed</li>
- <li><= shown as = in annotation row tooltip</li>
- <li>export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
- <li>relative URLs not handled properly when used in parameters
- and annotation files</li>
+ <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
+ selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works</li>
+ <li>allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
+ <li>Improved per-sequence 'colour-by-annotation' performance</li>
+ <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick files</li>
+ <li>group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
+ <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in database
+ fetcher GUI</li>
+ <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF
+ scope to group annotation rows</li>
+ <li>add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by Jalview</li>
+ <li>groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
+ <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
</ul>
- <strong>Issues affecting both applet and application</strong>
+ <strong>Bug fixes</strong>
<ul>
- <li>sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
- <li>sequence associated secondary structure not correctly parsed
- in interleaved stockholm</li>
- <li>sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
- associated with their pdb files</li>
- <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from deoxy
- nucleotide chains correctly</li>
- <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is off
- by 1</li>
+ <li>Uniprot and PDB database cross-reference fetching works
+ properly</li>
+ <li>'View all structures' in the desktop is more reliable</li>
+ <li>Web services parameter dialog box shows the options enabled
+ for different presets</li>
+ <li>Interactive creation of RNA secondary structure works more
+ smoothly</li>
+ <li>Keyboard mode 'P' command jumps to the right place</li>
+ <li>Improved support for parsing database cross-references via
+ Stockholm and Rfam database</li>
+ <li>Improved semantics in annotation files for grouping
+ annotation rows associated with particular sequences and groups</li>
+ <li>More robust DNA->Amino acid translation</li>
+ <li>Improved Headless-mode operation for DAS annotation
+ retrieval, groovy script execution and alignment figure generation</li>
+ <li>annotation label tooltip text needs to be wrapped</li>
</ul>
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