What's new in Jalview 2.10.3b1 ?

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)

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:

• 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.