What's new ?
Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix
release for Jalview version 2.8.
As usual you can find the
highlights below, and the comprehensive list is given in the Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes.
This bug fix release includes numerous minor enhancements made over
the last 12 months. Importantly, it is also the first release that
provides Jalview as a trusted application, signed with a certificate
donated to us by Certum.
Enhancements and new features
- Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works
- allow import of data from gzipped files
- Improved per-sequence 'colour-by-annotation' performance
- Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick files
- group options for JABAWS service by command line name
- Select primary source when selecting authority in database
fetcher GUI
- COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF
scope to group annotation rows
- add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by Jalview
- groovy scripting for headless jalview operation
- Output in Stockholm format
Bug fixes
- Uniprot and PDB database cross-reference fetching works
properly
- 'View all structures' in the desktop is more reliable
- Web services parameter dialog box shows the options enabled
for different presets
- Interactive creation of RNA secondary structure works more
smoothly
- Keyboard mode 'P' command jumps to the right place
- Improved support for parsing database cross-references via
Stockholm and Rfam database
- Improved semantics in annotation files for grouping
annotation rows associated with particular sequences and groups
- More robust DNA->Amino acid translation
- Improved Headless-mode operation for DAS annotation
retrieval, groovy script execution and alignment figure generation
- annotation label tooltip text needs to be wrapped