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- What's new ?
+ What's new in Jalview 2.10.3b1 ?
- Jalview 2.9 has been in development since December 2014. In addition
- to a multitude of bug fixes and minor improvements (both small, and
- rather big!), it also brings major new capabilities for codon-level
- analysis of protein alignments and the retrieval and manipulation of
- structural data.
For the full list of changes, see the
- Jalview 2.9 Release Notes.
+ This release - Jalview 2.10.3b1 is the January 2018 patch release for Version 2.10.3 was released in November 2017. The major focus was to
+ improve Jalview's sequence features datamodel and the scalability of
+ the alignment rendering system. The bugs fixed in this release can be found in the 2.10.3b1
+ Release Notes.
+ The highlights for Jalview 2.10.3 include:
+
+
+ - Faster and more responsive UI when importing and working
+ with wide alignments and handling hundreds and thousands of
+ sequence features
+ - Improved usability with PDB and UniProt Free Text
+ Search dialog, and new tab for retrieval of sequences for lists of
+ IDs.
+
+ - Short names assigned to sequences retrieved from UniProt
+ - Groovy console upgraded to 2.4.12 (improved support for Java 9)
+
- Highlights in Jalview 2.9
+ Experimental Features
+
+
+ Remember, please enable the Experimental Features option in
+ the Jalview Desktop's Tools menu, and then restart Jalview
+ if you want to try out features below:
+
- - Visualisation, editing and analysis of
- cDNA and Protein alignments
A new Split View window allows linked
- protein and nucleotide sequence alignments to be viewed, edited,
- and analysed as one.
cDNA alignments can also be
- reconstructed from protein alignments calculated by Jalview's web
- services, and update in response to edits in the amino acid view.
To
- start experimenting with cDNA/Protein analysis, jut drop a file
- containing cDNA sequences which code for, and have IDs matching
- proteins in an existing alignment, and Jalview will do the rest.
- - Enhanced Integration of UCSF Chimera
Jalview
- 2.9 provides full support for the use of Chimera to view 3D
- structures linked to alignment views in the Jalview Desktop. We've
- also included support for saving Chimera sessions in Jalview
- project files.
Jalview and Chimera communicate using local
- web server connections, which may cause firewall alerts on some
- systems, but has the advantage of allowing bidirectional
- communication. Communication between Jalview and Chimera is now
- much more responsive, and selected regions in Chimera are now
- shown as highlighted regions in the Jalview desktop.
- - Interactive querying of the PDBe
Jalview
- users can now browse and retrieve 3D structure data from the PDB
- via the PDBe
- Search API (Gutmanas
- et al 2014). Developed in collaboration with the PDBe group at
- EMBL-EBI, the interface allows both structured and free-text
- queries to be performed, and allows automatic selection of the
- most relevant structures for an alignment acording to a variety of
- criteria.
- - Improved support for RNA visualisation
Jalview
- 2.9 integrates the latest version of the VARNA RNA Viewer, and VARNA views
- can also now be stored in Jalview projects. We've also dealt with
- a number of lingering bugs in the VARNA/Jalview interface,
- including the loss of pseudoknots when RNA secondary structure is
- shown VARNA.
- - Protein Secondary Structure predictions
- with JPred4Jalview includes a number of new features for working
- with secondary structure predictions from the JPred4 server. These
- include the ability to automatically hide insertions and highlight
- mutations in an alignment with respect to a reference sequence.
- Jalview 2.9's new scrollable SVG HTML export mode was also
- developed specifically for the JPred4 server.
+ - Annotation transfer between Chimera and Jalview
Two
+ new entries in
+ the Chimera viewer's Chimera menu allow positional annotation to
+ be exchanged between Chimera and Jalview.
-
+