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- <strong>What's new ?</strong><br /> Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix
- release for Jalview version 2.8. <br /> As usual you can find the
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong></p>
+ <p>Jalview 2.8.1 includes a range of new features developed over the last 12 months. <br /> As usual you can find the
highlights below, and the comprehensive list is given in the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview2.8.0b1">Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes</a>.
+ href="releases.html#Jalview2.8.1">Jalview 2.8.1 Release Notes</a>.
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- <p>
- 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 <a href="certum.eu">Certum</a>.
- </p>
- <strong>Enhancements and new features</strong>
- <ul>
- <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
- selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works</li>
- <li>allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
- <li>Improved per-sequence 'colour-by-annotation' performance</li>
- <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick files</li>
- <li>group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
- <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in database
- fetcher GUI</li>
- <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF
- scope to group annotation rows</li>
- <li>add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by Jalview</li>
- <li>groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
- <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
- </ul>
- <strong>Bug fixes</strong>
- <ul>
- <li>Uniprot and PDB database cross-reference fetching works
- properly</li>
- <li>'View all structures' in the desktop is more reliable</li>
- <li>Web services parameter dialog box shows the options enabled
- for different presets</li>
- <li>Interactive creation of RNA secondary structure works more
- smoothly</li>
- <li>Keyboard mode 'P' command jumps to the right place</li>
- <li>Improved support for parsing database cross-references via
- Stockholm and Rfam database</li>
- <li>Improved semantics in annotation files for grouping
- annotation rows associated with particular sequences and groups</li>
- <li>More robust DNA->Amino acid translation</li>
- <li>Improved Headless-mode operation for DAS annotation
- retrieval, groovy script execution and alignment figure generation</li>
- <li>annotation label tooltip text needs to be wrapped</li>
- </ul>
+ <p>The Desktop and web based applet include new keystrokes for
+ defining and undefining groups, and PAM250 has been added to the range
+ of score models available for use by the tree and PCA calculations.
+ The Jalview project file format has also been extended for handling
+ RNA and protein secondary structure annotation, in anticipation for
+ new structure based secondary structure support in Jalview 2.8.2.</p>
+ <p><strong>Internationalisation</strong></p>
+ <p>Jalview 2.8.1 is the first release to include support for
+ displaying Jalview's user interface in different languages. In August
+ 2013, David Roldán-Martinez took on the task of
+ internationalising Jalview's user interface. He also recruited Sara
+ Hernández Díaz and Laura Ferrandis Martinez who created
+ Jalview's first spanish user interface translation.</p>
+ <p>
+ If you notice any problems, or would like to help translate Jalview's
+ user interface into other languages, head over to <a
+ href="http://issues.jalview.org">issues.jalview.org</a> and put in a
+ feature request describing the translations you can provide to the <a
+ href="http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL/component/10682">i18n
+ component</a>. David has also <a
+ href="https://wiki.jalview.org/index.php/Development:i18n">documented
+ the process of creating i18n translations</a> to help you get started.
+ </p>
+ <p><strong>RNA Secondary Structure Prediction with JABA 2.1</strong></p>
+ <p>
+ This version of Jalview includes a client to access the new services available in <a
+ href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jaba">JABA v2.1</a> , which
+ provides services for RNA consensus secondary structure prediction and
+ two new alignment programs (<a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/glprobs/">GLProbs</a> and <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/msaprobs/">MSAProbs</a>).</p>
+ <p>
+ To see how to perform RNA secondary structure predictions like the one below, take a look at the <a href="webServices/RNAalifold.html">RNAAliFold
+ client documentation</a>.
+ </p>
+ <div align="center">
+ <img src="webServices/RNAalifoldAnnotationRows.png" width="500" height="216"> <br> <em>The RNAalifold client was implemented by Jalview's 2013
+ summer student, Dan Barton.</em>
+ </div>
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