Jalview 2.8 release notes and whats new! text
authorjprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:42:19 +0000 (15:42 +0000)
committerjprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:42:19 +0000 (15:42 +0000)
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                <div align="center"><em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em></div>
                </td>
        </tr>
-<tr>
-<td><div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br/> <em>08/11/2012</em></div></td>
-<td><em>Application</em>
-<li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega) <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-976'>JAL-976</a>] -         Enhance Jalview desktop to support to JABAWS v2.0 services -->
-<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-974'>JAL-974</a>]--><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-975'>JAL-975</a>]-->
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1060'>JAL-1060</a>] -        -->JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services preferences
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-842'>JAL-842</a>] -         -->VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in Jalview alignment window
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1133'>JAL-1133</a>] -         -->Updated jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain lion, windows 7, and 8
-</li>
-<li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA and ambiguity codes <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1027'>JAL-1027</a>] -->
-</li>
+  <tr>
+   <td><div align="center">
+     <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>08/11/2012</em>
+    </div></td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
+     conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega) <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-976'>JAL-976</a>] -         Enhance Jalview desktop to support to JABAWS v2.0 services -->
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-974'>JAL-974</a>]-->
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-975'>JAL-975</a>]-->
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1060'>JAL-1060</a>] -        -->JABAWS
+     server status indicator in Web Services preferences
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-842'>JAL-842</a>] -         -->VARNA
+     (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in Jalview
+     alignment window
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1133'>JAL-1133</a>] -         -->Updated
+     jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain lion, windows
+     7, and 8
+   </li>
+    <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA
+     and ambiguity codes <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1027'>JAL-1027</a>] -->
+   </li>
 
-<li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li><li>Support fetching and database reference look up against multiple DAS sources<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1061'>JAL-1061</a>], [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1075'>JAL-1075</a>] -         GUI elements to select one or several DAS sources to query for sequences or database references-->
-</li>
-<li>Jalview project improvements<ul><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1109'>JAL-1109</a>] -->Store and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for annotation</li><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1110'>JAL-1110</a>]-->calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the alignment</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1136'>JAL-1136</a>] -         -->Store AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview project
-</li>
+    <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
+   <li>Support fetching and database reference look up against
+     multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1061'>JAL-1061</a>], [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1075'>JAL-1075</a>] -         GUI elements to select one or several DAS sources to query for sequences or database references-->
+   </li>
+    <li>Jalview project improvements
+     <ul>
+      <li>
+       <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1109'>JAL-1109</a>] -->Store
+       and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for annotation
+      </li>
+      <li>
+       <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1110'>JAL-1110</a>]-->calcId
+       attribute to group annotation rows on the alignment
+      </li>
+      <li>
+       <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1136'>JAL-1136</a>] -         -->Store
+       AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview project
+      </li>
 
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1160'>JAL-1160</a>] -         -->horizontal scrolling gesture support
-</li>
-<li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1120'>JAL-1120</a>] -         -->
-</li>
-<li>Simpler JABA web services menus<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1137'>JAL-1137</a>] -         -->
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1165'>JAL-1165</a>] -         -->visual indication that web service results are still being retrieved from server 
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1183'>JAL-1183</a>] -         -->Serialise the dialogs that are shown when jalview starts up for first time
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1188'>JAL-1188</a>] -         -->Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP services
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-972'>JAL-972</a>] -         -->DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client library
-</li>
-</ul>
-<em>Applet</em>
-<ul><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-963'>JAL-963</a>] -         -->RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation visualization applet example 
-</li>
-</ul>
-<em>General</em>
-<ul><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-958'>JAL-958</a>] -         -->Normalise option for consensus sequence logo
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1121'>JAL-1121</a>] -         -->Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to defaults
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1125'>JAL-1125</a>] -         -->Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA calculation
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1013'>JAL-1013</a>] -->PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution matrices
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1157'>JAL-1157</a>] -         -->Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported in HTML
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-970'>JAL-970</a>] -         -->Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary structure contacts
-</li>
-<li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
-<li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-878'>JAL-878</a>] -         -->Parse sequence associated secondary structure information in Stockholm files
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1015'>JAL-1015</a>] -         -->HTML Export database accessions and annotation information presented in tooltip for sequences
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1052'>JAL-1052</a>] -        -->Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA alignment files
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1065'>JAL-1065</a>] - [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1078'>JAL-1078</a>]-->import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an alignment
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1066'>JAL-1066</a>] -        -->&#39;colour by annotation&#39; per sequence option to shade each sequence according to its associated alignment annotation
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1130'>JAL-1130</a>] -         -->New Jalview Logo
-</li>
-</ul>
-<em>Documentation and Development</em>
-<ul><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1167'>JAL-1167</a>] -         -->documentation for score matrices used in Jalview
-</li>
-<li>New Website!
-</li>
-</ul>
-</td><td>
-<em>Application</em>
-<ul><li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via wsdbfetch REST service<!--<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-636'>JAL-636</a>-->
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368'>JAL-368</a>] -         --><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-153'>JAL-153</a>] -        -->Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-758'>JAL-758</a>] -         -->Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-849'>JAL-849</a>] -         -->Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in full once it is complete
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-979'>JAL-979</a>] -         -->revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is uploaded via ali_file parameter
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-980'>JAL-980</a>] -         -->Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-983'>JAL-983</a>] -         -->View all structures superposed fails with exception
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-994'>JAL-994</a>] -         -->Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for prediction
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1004'>JAL-1004</a>] -         -->Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on desktop window
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1010'>JAL-1010</a>] -         -->Putting fractional value into integer text box in alignment parameter dialog causes jalview to hang
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1022'>JAL-1022</a>] -         -->Structure view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1023'>JAL-1023</a>] -         -->View all structures fails with exception shown in structure view
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1025'>JAL-1025</a>] -         -->Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not escaped in a platform independent way 
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1026'>JAL-1026</a>] -         -->Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1031'>JAL-1031</a>] -         -->Tree calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more sequences selected&#39; when selection is empty
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1040'>JAL-1040</a>] -         -->Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure when java web start temporary file caching is disabled
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1062'>JAL-1062</a>] -         -->DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence xref which includes range qualification
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1087'>JAL-1087</a>] -         -->Errors during processing of command line arguments cause progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1097'>JAL-1097</a>] -         -->Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS sources in sequence fetcher
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1111'>JAL-1111</a>] -         -->Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1127'>JAL-1127</a>] -         -->Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1131'>JAL-1131</a>] -         -->Edited sequence not submitted to web service
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1134'>JAL-1134</a>] -         -->Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1135'>JAL-1135</a>] -         -->InstallAnywhere installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on OSX Mountain Lion
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1144'>JAL-1144</a>] -         -->Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment annotation are pasted into the alignment
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1148'>JAL-1148</a>] -         -->Sequence associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview project
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1149'>JAL-1149</a>] -         -->Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1171'>JAL-1171</a>] -         -->JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled or job failed due to invalid input
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1185'>JAL-1185</a>] -         -->NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated with all views
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1145'>JAL-1145</a>] -         -->Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new window
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<em>Applet</em>
-<ul><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-962'>JAL-962</a>] -         -->Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-965'>JAL-965</a>] -         -->loading features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1170'>JAL-1170</a>] -         -->scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn&#39;t work
-</li>
-</ul>
-<em>General</em>
-<ul><li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1007'>JAL-1007</a>] -         -->Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1032'>JAL-1032</a>] -         -->PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected and then deselected
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1033'>JAL-1033</a>] -         -->PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1086'>JAL-1086</a>] -        -->Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with clustalx
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1099'>JAL-1099</a>] -         -->Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw errors
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1123'>JAL-1123</a>] -         -->Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1153'>JAL-1153</a>] -         -->Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line colour
-</li>
-<li><!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1155'>JAL-1155</a>] -         -->Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted for lots of labels
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-</tr>
-               <tr>
-                       <td>
-                               <div align="center">
-                                       <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a>
-                                       </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
-                               </div></td>
-                       <td><em>Application</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
-                                       <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
-                                       <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
-                                               specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
-                                               colours/correspondences from</li>
-                                       <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL </li>
-                                               <li>Extend jalview project to preserve associations between
-                                                       many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
-                                               <li>Store annotation row height in jalview project file</li>
-                                               <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
-                                                       in project file</li>
-                                               <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
-                                                       preserved in jalview project file</li>
-                                               <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
-                                                       using Desktop window menu</li>
-                                               <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
-                                                       being processed</li>
-                                               <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
-                                               <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
-                                                       preferences</li>
-                                               <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
-                                                       alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
-                                                       IDs</li>
-                                               <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
-                                               <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
-                                                       in same window</li>
-                                               <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
-                                               <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
-                                                       analysis function in its own submenu</li>
-                               </ul> <em>Applet</em>
-                       <ul>
-                                       <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
-                                       <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
-                                       <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
-                                       <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
-                                       <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
-                                       <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
-                                               annotated from GFF/jalview features files</li>
-                                       <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
-                                       <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
-                                               parameters are treated as such</li>
-                                       <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
-                                               <ul>
-                                                       <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
-                                                       <li>Javascript callbacks for
-                                                               <ul>
-                                                                       <li>Applet initialisation</li>
-                                                                       <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
-                                                               </ul>
-                                                       </li>
-                                                       <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
-                                                       <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
-                                                       <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
-                                                               between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
-                                                       <li>sortBy method</li>
-                                                       <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
-                                                               documentation</li>
-                                                       <li>New example to demonstrate jalviewLite and Jmol
-                                                               javascript message exchange</li>
-                                               </ul>
-                               </ul> <em>General</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
-                                               multiple alignments</li>
-                                       <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
-                                       <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
-                                               www.jalview.org mirror</li>
-                                       <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
-                                       <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
-                                               other flat files</li>
-                                       <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
-                                               html tags</li>
-                               </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
-                                       </li>
-                                       <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
-                                               web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
-                                       <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
-                                       <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet archive</li>
-                                       <li>Netbeans project for building jalview from source</li>
-                                       <li>ant task to create online javadoc for jalview source</li>
-                               </ul></td>
-                       <td><em>Application</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
-                                               built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
-                                       <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
-                                               valid filename/format</li>
-                                       <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
-                                       <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
-                                       <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
-                                               sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
-                                       <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
-                                               matches sequence IDs</li>
-                                       <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
-                                       <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
-                                               cannot be loaded</li>
-                                       <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
-                                       <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
-                                               sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
-                                               associated sequence</li>
-                                       <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
-                                               preserved when project is loaded</li>
-                                       <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
-                                               in jalview project</li>
-                                       <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a jalview
-                                               project</li>
-                                       <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
-                                       <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
-                                               conservation</li>
-                                       <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
-                                               created on new view</li>
-                                       <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
-                                               hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
-                                       <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
-                                               row is hidden then shown</li>
-                                       <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in pre
-                                               jalview 2.7 projects</li>
-                                       <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
-                                       </li>
-                                       <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
-                                               services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
-                                       <li>Annotation off by one in jalview v2_3 example project</li>
-                                       <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
-                                               name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
-                                       <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
-                                               execution in full once it is complete</li>
-                               </ul> <em>Applet</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
-                                               rows are displayed</li>
-                                       <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
-                                               codebase</li>
-                                       <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
-                                               sequences</li>
-                                       <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
-                                       <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
-                                       <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
-                                               javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
-                                               parameter</li>
-                                       <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
-                                               alignment with no existing selection</li>
-                                       <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
-                                               applet&#39;s codebase</li>
-                                       <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
-                                               wraps around to first result</li>
-                                       <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
-                                               jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
-                                       <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
-                                               sent from Jmol in applet</li>
-                                       <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
-                                               fatally hang browser</li>
-                               </ul> <em>General</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
-                                               with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
-                                       <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
-                                               hidden columns</li>
-                                       <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
-                                               off by 1</li>
-                                       <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
-                                               import PDB like structure files</li>
-                                       <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
-                                               user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
-                                       <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
-                                       <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
-                                               sequence position</li>
-                                       <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
-                                       <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
-                                               nucleotide chains correctly</li>
-                                       <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
-                                               in alignment</li>
-                                       <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
-                                               parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
-                                       <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
-                                       </li>
-                                       <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
-                                       <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
-                                               associated with their pdb files</li>
-                               </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
-                                               tool</li>
-                               </ul></td>
-               </tr>
-               <tr>
+     </ul>
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1160'>JAL-1160</a>] -         -->horizontal
+     scrolling gesture support
+   </li>
+    <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1120'>JAL-1120</a>] -         -->
+   </li>
+    <li>Simpler JABA web services menus<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1137'>JAL-1137</a>] -         -->
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1165'>JAL-1165</a>] -         -->visual
+     indication that web service results are still being retrieved from
+     server
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1183'>JAL-1183</a>] -         -->Serialise
+     the dialogs that are shown when jalview starts up for first time
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1188'>JAL-1188</a>] -         -->Jalview
+     user agent string for interacting with HTTP services
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-972'>JAL-972</a>] -         -->DAS
+     1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client library
+   </li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-963'>JAL-963</a>] -         -->RNA
+      alignment and secondary structure annotation visualization applet
+      example
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-958'>JAL-958</a>] -         -->Normalise
+      option for consensus sequence logo
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1121'>JAL-1121</a>] -         -->Reset
+      button in PCA window to return dimensions to defaults
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1125'>JAL-1125</a>] -         -->Allow
+      seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA calculation
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1013'>JAL-1013</a>] -->PCA
+      with either nucleic acid and protein substitution matrices
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1157'>JAL-1157</a>] -         -->Allow
+      windows containing HTML reports to be exported in HTML
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-970'>JAL-970</a>] -         -->Interactive
+      display and editing of RNA secondary structure contacts
+     </li>
+     <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
+     <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-878'>JAL-878</a>] -         -->Parse
+      sequence associated secondary structure information in Stockholm
+      files
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1015'>JAL-1015</a>] -         -->HTML
+      Export database accessions and annotation information presented in
+      tooltip for sequences
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1052'>JAL-1052</a>] -        -->Import
+      secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA alignment
+      files
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1065'>JAL-1065</a>] - [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1078'>JAL-1078</a>]-->import
+      and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an alignment
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1066'>JAL-1066</a>] -        -->&#39;colour
+      by annotation&#39; per sequence option to shade each sequence
+      according to its associated alignment annotation
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1130'>JAL-1130</a>] -         -->New
+      Jalview Logo
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1167'>JAL-1167</a>] -         -->documentation
+      for score matrices used in Jalview
+     </li>
+     <li>New Website!</li>
+    </ul></td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
+      wsdbfetch REST service<!--<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-636'>JAL-636</a>-->
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368'>JAL-368</a>] -         -->
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-153'>JAL-153</a>] -        -->Stop
+      windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-758'>JAL-758</a>] -         -->Filetype
+      associations not installed for webstart launch
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-849'>JAL-849</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in
+      full once it is complete
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-979'>JAL-979</a>] -         -->revise
+      SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is uploaded via ali_file
+      parameter
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-980'>JAL-980</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-983'>JAL-983</a>] -         -->View
+      all structures superposed fails with exception
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-994'>JAL-994</a>] -         -->Jnet
+      job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for
+      prediction
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1004'>JAL-1004</a>] -         -->Cut
+      and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on desktop window
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1010'>JAL-1010</a>] -         -->Putting
+      fractional value into integer text box in alignment parameter
+      dialog causes jalview to hang
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1022'>JAL-1022</a>] -         -->Structure
+      view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1023'>JAL-1023</a>] -         -->View
+      all structures fails with exception shown in structure view
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1025'>JAL-1025</a>] -         -->Characters
+      in filename associated with PDBEntry not escaped in a platform
+      independent way
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1026'>JAL-1026</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1031'>JAL-1031</a>] -         -->Tree
+      calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more sequences
+      selected&#39; when selection is empty
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1040'>JAL-1040</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure when java web
+      start temporary file caching is disabled
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1062'>JAL-1062</a>] -         -->DAS
+      Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence
+      xref which includes range qualification
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1087'>JAL-1087</a>] -         -->Errors
+      during processing of command line arguments cause progress bar
+      (JAL-898) to be removed
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1097'>JAL-1097</a>] -         -->Replace
+      comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS sources in
+      sequence fetcher
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1111'>JAL-1111</a>] -         -->Cannot
+      close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1127'>JAL-1127</a>] -         -->Option
+      widgets not updated to reflect user settings
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1131'>JAL-1131</a>] -         -->Edited
+      sequence not submitted to web service
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1134'>JAL-1134</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1135'>JAL-1135</a>] -         -->InstallAnywhere
+      installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on OSX Mountain Lion
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1144'>JAL-1144</a>] -         -->Annotation
+      panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment
+      annotation are pasted into the alignment
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1148'>JAL-1148</a>] -         -->Sequence
+      associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview
+      project
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1149'>JAL-1149</a>] -         -->Browser
+      launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1171'>JAL-1171</a>] -         -->JABAWS
+      alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled or job failed
+      due to invalid input
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1185'>JAL-1185</a>] -         -->NPE
+      with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated with all views
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1145'>JAL-1145</a>] -         -->Exceptions
+      when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new
+      window
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-962'>JAL-962</a>] -         -->Sequence
+      features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using
+      hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-965'>JAL-965</a>] -         -->loading
+      features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1170'>JAL-1170</a>] -         -->scrollToColumnIn
+      javascript API method doesn&#39;t work
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1007'>JAL-1007</a>] -         -->Redundancy
+      removal fails for rna alignment
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1032'>JAL-1032</a>] -         -->PCA
+      calculation fails when sequence has been selected and then
+      deselected
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1033'>JAL-1033</a>] -         -->PCA
+      window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1086'>JAL-1086</a>] -        -->Letters
+      coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with
+      clustalx
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1099'>JAL-1099</a>] -         -->Choosing
+      fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw
+      errors
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1123'>JAL-1123</a>] -         -->Initial
+      PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1153'>JAL-1153</a>] -         -->Grouped
+      annotation graph label has incorrect line colour
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1155'>JAL-1155</a>] -         -->Grouped
+      annotation graph label display is corrupted for lots of labels
+     </li>
+    </ul>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+   <td>
+    <div align="center">
+     <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
+    </div>
+   </td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
+     <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
+     <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
+      specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
+      colours/correspondences from</li>
+     <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
+     <li>Extend jalview project to preserve associations between
+      many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
+     <li>Store annotation row height in jalview project file</li>
+     <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
+      in project file</li>
+     <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
+      preserved in jalview project file</li>
+     <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
+      using Desktop window menu</li>
+     <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
+      being processed</li>
+     <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
+     <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
+      preferences</li>
+     <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
+      alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
+      IDs</li>
+     <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
+     <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
+      in same window</li>
+     <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
+     <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
+      analysis function in its own submenu</li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
+     <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
+     <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
+     <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
+     <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
+     <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
+      annotated from GFF/jalview features files</li>
+     <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
+     <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
+      parameters are treated as such</li>
+     <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
+      <ul>
+       <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
+       <li>Javascript callbacks for
+        <ul>
+         <li>Applet initialisation</li>
+         <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
+        </ul>
+       </li>
+       <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
+       <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
+       <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
+        between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
+       <li>sortBy method</li>
+       <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
+        documentation</li>
+       <li>New example to demonstrate jalviewLite and Jmol
+        javascript message exchange</li>
+      </ul>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
+      multiple alignments</li>
+     <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
+     <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
+      www.jalview.org mirror</li>
+     <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
+     <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
+      other flat files</li>
+     <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
+      html tags</li>
+    </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
+     </li>
+     <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
+      web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
+     <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
+     <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
+      archive</li>
+     <li>Netbeans project for building jalview from source</li>
+     <li>ant task to create online javadoc for jalview source</li>
+    </ul></td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
+      built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
+     <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
+      valid filename/format</li>
+     <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
+     <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
+     <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
+      sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
+     <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
+      matches sequence IDs</li>
+     <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
+     <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
+      cannot be loaded</li>
+     <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
+     <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
+      sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
+      associated sequence</li>
+     <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
+      preserved when project is loaded</li>
+     <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
+      in jalview project</li>
+     <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a jalview
+      project</li>
+     <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
+     <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
+      conservation</li>
+     <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
+      created on new view</li>
+     <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
+      hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
+     <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
+      row is hidden then shown</li>
+     <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in
+      pre jalview 2.7 projects</li>
+     <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
+     </li>
+     <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
+      services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
+     <li>Annotation off by one in jalview v2_3 example project</li>
+     <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
+      name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
+     <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
+      execution in full once it is complete</li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
+      rows are displayed</li>
+     <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
+      codebase</li>
+     <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
+      sequences</li>
+     <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
+     <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
+     <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
+      javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
+      parameter</li>
+     <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
+      alignment with no existing selection</li>
+     <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
+      applet&#39;s codebase</li>
+     <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
+      wraps around to first result</li>
+     <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
+      jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
+     <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
+      sent from Jmol in applet</li>
+     <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
+      fatally hang browser</li>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
+      with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
+     <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
+      hidden columns</li>
+     <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
+      off by 1</li>
+     <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
+      import PDB like structure files</li>
+     <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
+      user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
+     <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
+     <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
+      sequence position</li>
+     <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
+     <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
+      nucleotide chains correctly</li>
+     <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
+      in alignment</li>
+     <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
+      parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
+     <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
+     </li>
+     <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
+     <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
+      associated with their pdb files</li>
+    </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
+      tool</li>
+    </ul></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
                        <td>
                                <div align="center">
                                        <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a>
index c260b5a..d9b6360 100755 (executable)
 <title>What's new ?</title>
 </head>
 <body>
-       <p>
-               <strong>What's new ?</strong>
-       </p>
-       <p>
-       Jalview 2.8 includes a brand new logo, which you'll see in file browsers, splash screens, and also on the new look Jalview site.
-       </p>
-       <p>
-               In addition to our new look, Jalview 2.8 includes a number of new
-               features.. some of which have been in development since July 2010. The
-               highlights are below, and - as usual, for a comprehensive list, take a
-               look at the <a href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">Jalview 2.8 Release
-                       Notes</a>.
-       </p>
-       <p>
-               <strong>Highlights in Jalview Desktop Version 2.8</strong>
-       </p>
-       <ul>
+ <p>
+  <strong>What's new ?</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>Jalview 2.8 includes a brand new logo, which you'll see in file
+  browsers, splash screens, and also on the new look Jalview site.</p>
+ <p>
+  In addition to our new look, Jalview 2.8 includes a number of new
+  features.. some of which have been in development since July 2010. The
+  highlights are below, and - as usual, for a comprehensive list, take a
+  look at the <a href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">Jalview 2.8 Release
+   Notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+  <strong>Highlights in Jalview Version 2.8</strong>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+  <li>Improved JABA client and new JABAWS 2.0 Services
+   <ul>
+    <li>AACon alignment conservation</li>
+    <li>Protein disorder - DisEMBL, RONN, GlobPlot and IUPred</li>
+    <li>Clustal Omega - huge protein alignments</li>
+   </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><strong>Support for RNA</strong>
+   <ul>
+    <li>Import sequence and alignment associated WUSS or VIENNA
+     secondary structure notation from stockholm and clustalW files or
+     as jalview annotation.</li>
+    <li>Interactive editing of RNA secondary structure annotation</li>
+    <li>Colour scheme for purine/pyrimidine and to highlight RNA
+     helices</li>
+    <li>RNA canonical base pair consensus score and sequence logo</li>
+    <li>Embedded <a href="http://varna.lri.fr/">VARNA</a> RNA
+     secondary structure viewer in the Desktop
+    </li>
+   </ul> See <a href="na/index.html">Nucleic Acid Support</a> for full
+   details.</li>
+  <li>Parse and display T-COFFEE alignment quality scores</li>
+  <li>Shade individual sequence positions according to alignment
+   annotation scores</li>
+  <li>Enhanced PCA viewer: more export options, and switch between
+   different PCA modes and residue score models</li>
+  <li>New Jalview Desktop database fetcher GUI</li>
+  <li>Support for DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 sources</li>
+  <li>Export sequence database annotation as HTML report</li>
+  <li>Normalised Sequence Logo Display</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+  <strong>Issues Resolved (a select list - see the <a
+   href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">release history</a> for full details)
+  </strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+  <strong>Issues in the Jalview Desktop</strong>
+ <ul>
+  <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via wsdbfetch
+   REST service<!--<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-636'>JAL-636</a>-->
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368'>JAL-368</a>] -         -->
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-153'>JAL-153</a>] -        -->Stop
+   windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-758'>JAL-758</a>] -         -->Filetype
+   associations not installed for webstart launch
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-849'>JAL-849</a>] -         -->Jalview
+   does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in full
+   once it is complete
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-983'>JAL-983</a>] -         -->View
+   all structures superposed fails with exception
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-994'>JAL-994</a>] -         -->Jnet
+   job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for
+   prediction
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1022'>JAL-1022</a>] -         -->Structure
+   view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1026'>JAL-1026</a>] -         -->Jalview
+   desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1031'>JAL-1031</a>] -         -->Tree
+   calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more sequences
+   selected&#39; when selection is empty
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1062'>JAL-1062</a>] -         -->DAS
+   Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence xref
+   which includes range qualification
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1111'>JAL-1111</a>] -         -->Cannot
+   close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1131'>JAL-1131</a>] -         -->Edited
+   sequence not submitted to web service
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1134'>JAL-1134</a>] -         -->Jalview
+   2.7 Webstart and InstallAnywhere installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run
+   on OSX Mountain Lion
+   <ul>
+    <li>The workaround for webstart is to go into the Security
+     panel (gatekeeper symbol) under System settings, and select the
+     'allow any code to run' setting.</li>
+   </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1144'>JAL-1144</a>] -         -->Annotation
+   panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment annotation
+   are pasted into the alignment
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1148'>JAL-1148</a>] -         -->Sequence
+   associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview
+   project
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1145'>JAL-1145</a>] -         -->Exceptions
+   when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new window
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1149'>JAL-1149</a>] -         -->Browser
+   launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
+  </li>
 
-       <li>New Purine/Pyrimidine colour scheme</li>
-       <li>Colouring of RNA secondary structure by helices.  See <a href="na/index.html">Nucleic Acid Support</a></li>
-       <li>Embedded <a href="http://www.varna.fr/">VARNA</a> RNA secondary structure viewer.
-       </ul>
+ </ul>
 
-       <p>
-               <strong>Issues Resolved (a select list - see the <a
-                       href="releases.html#Jalview2.7.1">release history</a> for full details)
-               </strong>
-       </p>
-       <p>
-               <strong>Issues in the Jalview Desktop</strong>
-       <ul>
-       </ul>
-       <strong>Issues specific to the JalviewLite Applet</strong>
-       <ul>
-       </ul>
-       <strong>Issues affecting both applet and application</strong>
-       <ul>
-       </ul>
+ <strong>Issues specific to the JalviewLite Applet</strong>
+ <ul>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-962'>JAL-962</a>] -         -->Sequence
+   features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using
+   hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-965'>JAL-965</a>] -         -->loading
+   features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1170'>JAL-1170</a>] -         -->scrollToColumnIn
+   javascript API method doesn&#39;t work
+  </li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong>Issues affecting both applet and application</strong>
+ <em>General</em>
+ <ul>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1007'>JAL-1007</a>] -         -->Redundancy
+   removal fails for rna alignment
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1033'>JAL-1033</a>] -         -->PCA
+   window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1086'>JAL-1086</a>] -        -->Letters
+   coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with clustalx
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1099'>JAL-1099</a>] -         -->Choosing
+   fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw
+   errors
+  </li>
+  <li>
+   <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1123'>JAL-1123</a>] -         -->Initial
+   PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view
+  </li>
+ </ul>
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 </html>