3 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.8)
4 * Copyright (C) 2012 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, LM Lui, J Engelhardt, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
6 * This file is part of Jalview.
8 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
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20 <title>What's new ?</title>
24 <strong>What's new ?</strong>
26 <p>Jalview 2.8 includes a brand new logo, which you'll see in file
27 browsers, splash screens, and also on the new look Jalview site.</p>
29 In addition to our new look, Jalview 2.8 includes a number of new
30 features.. some of which have been in development since July 2010. The
31 highlights are below, and - as usual, for a comprehensive list, take a
32 look at the <a href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">Jalview 2.8 Release
36 <strong>Highlights in Jalview Version 2.8</strong>
39 <li><strong>Improved <a href="webServices/JABAWS.html">JABAWS</a> client and new JABAWS 2.0 Services</strong>
41 <li><a href="webServices/AACon.html">AACon alignment conservation</a></li>
42 <li><a href="webServices/proteinDisorder.html">Protein disorder</a> - DisEMBL, RONN, GlobPlot and IUPred</li>
43 <li>Clustal Omega for creating huge protein alignments</li>
46 <li><strong>Support for <a href="na/index.html">RNA</a></strong>
48 <li>Import sequence and alignment associated WUSS or VIENNA dot-bracket
49 notation from files and the <strong>RFAM</strong> database</li>
50 <li>Interactive editing of RNA secondary structure annotation</li>
51 <li>Colour scheme for purine/pyrimidine and to highlight RNA
53 <li>RNA canonical <a href="calculations/structureconsensus.html">base pair consensus score</a> and sequence logo</li>
54 <li>Embedded <a href="features/varna.html">VARNA</a> RNA
55 secondary structure viewer in the Desktop
58 <li>Parse and display <a href="io/tcoffeescores.html">T-COFFEE alignment quality scores</a> (thanks to Paolo Tomassi of the Notredame Group)</li>
59 <li><a href="colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">Per sequence alignment annotation shading</a></li>
60 <li>Enhanced <a href="calculations/pca.html">PCA viewer</a>: more export options, and switch between
61 different PCA modes and residue score models</li>
62 <li>New Jalview Desktop <a href="webServices/dbreffetcher.html">database fetcher</a> GUI</li>
63 <li>Support for DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 sources (thanks to new JDAS Distributed Annotation client library)</li>
64 <li>Export sequence database annotation as <a href="io/exportseqreport.html">HTML report</a></li>
65 <li>Normalised <a href="calculations/consensus.html">Sequence Logo Display</a></li>
68 <strong>Issues Resolved (a select list - see the <a
69 href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">release history</a> for full details)
73 <strong>Issues in the Jalview Desktop</strong>
75 <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via wsdbfetch
76 REST service<!--<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-636'>JAL-636</a>-->
79 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368'>JAL-368</a>] - -->
80 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-153'>JAL-153</a>] - -->Stop
81 windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
84 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-758'>JAL-758</a>] - -->Filetype
85 associations not installed for webstart launch
88 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-849'>JAL-849</a>] - -->Jalview
89 does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in full
93 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-983'>JAL-983</a>] - -->View
94 all structures superposed fails with exception
97 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-994'>JAL-994</a>] - -->Jnet
98 job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for
102 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1022'>JAL-1022</a>] - -->Structure
103 view highlighting doesn't work on windows 7
106 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1026'>JAL-1026</a>] - -->Jalview
107 desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
110 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1031'>JAL-1031</a>] - -->Tree
111 calculation reports 'you must have 2 or more sequences
112 selected' when selection is empty
115 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1062'>JAL-1062</a>] - -->DAS
116 Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence xref
117 which includes range qualification
120 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1111'>JAL-1111</a>] - -->Cannot
121 close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
124 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1131'>JAL-1131</a>] - -->Edited
125 sequence not submitted to web service
128 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1134'>JAL-1134</a>] - -->Jalview
129 2.7 Webstart and InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run
132 <li>The workaround for webstart is to go into the Security
133 panel (gatekeeper symbol) under System settings, and select the
134 'allow any code to run' setting.</li>
138 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1144'>JAL-1144</a>] - -->Annotation
139 panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment annotation
140 are pasted into the alignment
143 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1148'>JAL-1148</a>] - -->Sequence
144 associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview
148 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1145'>JAL-1145</a>] - -->Exceptions
149 when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new window
152 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1149'>JAL-1149</a>] - -->Browser
153 launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
158 <strong>Issues specific to the JalviewLite Applet</strong>
161 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-962'>JAL-962</a>] - -->Sequence
162 features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using
163 hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
166 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-965'>JAL-965</a>] - -->loading
167 features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
170 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1170'>JAL-1170</a>] - -->scrollToColumnIn
171 javascript API method doesn't work
174 <strong>Issues affecting both applet and application</strong>
177 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1007'>JAL-1007</a>] - -->Redundancy
178 removal fails for rna alignment
181 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1033'>JAL-1033</a>] - -->PCA
182 window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
185 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1086'>JAL-1086</a>] - -->Letters
186 coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with clustalx
189 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1099'>JAL-1099</a>] - -->Choosing
190 fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw
194 <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1123'>JAL-1123</a>] - -->Initial
195 PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view