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23 <title>What's new ?</title>
27 <strong>Welcome to Jalview Version $$Version-Rel$$ !!</strong>
29 look at the <a href="releases.html#Jalview.$$Version-Rel$$">release
30 notes</a> for this build. Read on for the highlights.
33 <strong>Highlights in 2.11.2</strong>
36 <strong>New features for working with 3D Structure</strong><br />
37 Jalview 2.11.2 features a number of new capabilities:
40 <li><strong>Linked viewing with <em>ChimeraX</em> and
41 <em>PyMol</em></strong><br />Simply configure your prefered viewer for 3D
42 molecular data in <a href="features/preferences.html#structure">Jalview's
43 structure preferences</a>, make sure that Jalview can locate the
44 viewer's installation, and open a new view via the 3D Structure
46 <li><strong>View predicted protein structures via
47 3D-Beacons</strong><br /> Jalview 2.11.2's <a
48 href="features/structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser
49 includes a client for the 3D-Beacons Network</a>, a new service that
50 allows predicted and observed 3D models for proteins in Uniprot
51 from a range of resources, including AlphaFold DB, SWISS-MODEL and
52 a growing number of other resources.</li>
53 <li><strong>Easier configuration of <a href="features/preferences.html#startup">Jalview's memory allocation</a></strong>
55 <strong>Retrieval of 3D models via 3D-Beacons</strong> <br>The
56 3D-Beacons network (<a
57 href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb/3dbeacons/">www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb/3dbeacons/</a>)
58 provides a central point for the retrieval of predicted and
59 observed 3D structures for sequences in Uniprot, including
60 homology models from Swiss-model and deep learning based
61 predictions from the EBI's Alphafold database (Orengo et al. 2020,
62 <a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20559.1">doi:10.12688/f1000research.20559.1</a>).<br>
63 See the <a href="features/structurechooser.html">Structure
64 Chooser's documentation</a>.
67 <strong>Support for viewing structures with ChimeraX and
68 Pymol</strong><br> Jalview's 3D structure viewer system has been
69 re-architected to allow easier integration of external structure
70 viewers, and takes advantage of the strucViz2 Chimera
71 communications library developed by Scooter Morris (<a
72 href="https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm329">doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm329</a>).
73 The Structures Preferences tab provides new options
74 allowing ChimeraX and Pymol to be used for visualising external 3D
75 structures. Jalview 2.11.2 has been tested with Pymol 2.5.0
76 (community) and 2.5.2 (incentive). For ChimeraX, we recommend
80 For the full release notes, see <a
81 href="releases.html#Jalview.2.11.2.0">the Jalview 2.11.2.0
85 <strong>Known Issues</strong>