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<title>What's new ?</title>
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-<p><strong>What's new ?</strong></p>
-<p><strong>Highlights in Jalview Version 2.4</strong></p>
-<ul>
- DNA and protein product highlighting<br>
- URL links generated with regular expressions<br>
- URL links for sequence database cross references<br>
- New sequence fetcher dialog and DAS Sequence Fetching<br>
- JPred Service upgraded to Jpred3<br>
- Memory monitor<br>
- PFAM full alignment retrieval<br>
- Generalised sequence database reference validation<br>
- DNA Protein Product sequence db traversal (Experimental)<br>
- VAMSAS Interoperation Client (Experimental)<br>
- export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import<br>
- New application command line args and optional Groovy suport<br>
- New Applet API methods and parameters<br>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Issues Resolved (a select list)</strong></p>
-<ul>
- Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly<br>
- selected region output includes visible annotations (for
- certain formats)<br>
- edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
- editing<br>
- Newick tree support improved for clustalW trees and preserving NHX style comments<br>
- Pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
- filenames containing a ':'<br>
- Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
- sequence features<br>
- Reference counting for alignment datasets<br>
- better reporting of non-fatal warnings and error messages to user when file
- parsing fails.<br>
- Save works when Jalview project is default format<br>
- Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo<br>
- Undo recovers dataset sequence metadata when sequence
- regions are cut<br>
- PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
- generated by MODELLER) are read in properly<br>
- Stockholm annotation parsing fixed and improved (PFAM records)<br>
- Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association (MyHits)<br>
- annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
- read and written correctly to annotation file<br>
- Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
- for representatives in Applet<br>
- Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</br>
- Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</br>
- Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
- column of alignment<br>
- Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July 2008<br>
- Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is case-insensitive<br>
- Sequence features read from Features file appended to all sequences with matching IDs<br>
- PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views containing a sub-sequence<br>
- Display name and local features preserved in results retrieved from web service<br>
- Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence fetcher initialisation<br>
- Updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS client
-</ul>
-
-<p> </p>
-<p>See the <a href="releases.html">Release History</a> page for
-details of all new features and resolved issues.</p>
+ <p>
+ <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>
+ 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>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>Bug fixes</strong>
+ <ul>
+ <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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