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- <strong>What's new ?</strong>
+ <strong>Jalview 2.11 - major and minor new features</strong>
</p>
+ <p>Jalview 2.11 introduces support for loading VCF files, and new
+ filters and shading models for sequence features. Under the hood,
+ we've addressed many bugs, and also made some important changes in
+ the way the Jalview desktop is installed and launched.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><em>VCF Support</em>. Proteins and genomic contigs with
+ chromosomal location annotation (such as protein coding genes
+ retrieved from Ensembl) can be annotated with variants imported
+ from a local VCF file.</li>
+ <li><em>The Jalview Launcher and Update System</em><br />
+ Jalview's new installation model means you'll only need to
+ download and install Jalview once. After installation, Jalview
+ will automatically keep itself up to date. The launcher also sets
+ Jalview's memory automatically, so you'll never again have to
+ manually configure Java's memory settings.<br />We are grateful to
+ Install4J who provided us with a free license for their
+ installation system, and Jalview's over the air update system is
+ via Getdown.</li>
+ </ul>
<p>
- Jalview 2.9.0b1 is a bug fix release for Jalview 2.9, which has been in development since December 2014. In addition
- to a multitude of bug fixes and minor improvements (both small, and
- rather big!), it also brings major new capabilities for codon-level
- analysis of protein alignments and the retrieval and manipulation of
- structural data.</p><p>For the patches since version 2.9 was release, see the
- <a href="releases.html#Jalview.2.9.0b1">Jalview 2.9.0b1 Release Notes</a>.
+ The full list of bugs fixed in this release can be found in the <a
+ href="releases.html#Jalview.2.11">2.11 Release Notes</a>.
</p>
<p>
- <strong>Highlights in Jalview 2.9</strong>
+ <strong>Jalview and Java 11, 13, and onwards</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>Java 11 provides improved performance and better OS
+ integration, so we now recommend users select our Java 11 Jalview
+ distribution rather than the legacy Java 8 build.</p>
+ <em>Known Issues - update for 211 </em>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Visualisation, editing and analysis of
- cDNA and Protein alignments</strong><br />A new <a
- href="features/splitView.html">Split View</a> window allows linked
- protein and nucleotide sequence alignments to be viewed, edited,
- and analysed as one. <br />cDNA alignments can also be
- reconstructed from protein alignments calculated by Jalview's web
- services, and update in response to edits in the amino acid view.<br />To
- start experimenting with cDNA/Protein analysis, jut drop a file
- containing cDNA sequences which code for proteins in an existing
- alignment, and Jalview will do the rest.</li>
- <li><strong>Enhanced Integration of UCSF Chimera</strong> <br>Jalview
- 2.9 provides full support for the use of Chimera to view 3D
- structures linked to alignment views in the Jalview Desktop. We've
- also included support for saving Chimera sessions in Jalview
- project files.<br />Jalview and Chimera communicate using local
- web server connections, which may cause firewall alerts on some
- systems, but has the advantage of allowing bidirectional
- communication. Communication between Jalview and Chimera is now
- much more responsive, and selected regions in Chimera are now
- shown as highlighted regions in the Jalview desktop.</li>
- <li><strong>Interactive querying of the PDBe</strong><br />Jalview
- users can now <a href="features/pdbsequencefetcher.html">browse</a> and <a href="features/viewingpdbs.html">retrieve 3D structure</a> data from the PDB
- via the <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/api/doc/search.html">PDBe
- Search API</a> (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fnar%2Fgkt1180">Gutmanas
- et al 2014</a>). Developed in collaboration with the PDBe group at
- EMBL-EBI, the interface allows both structured and free-text
- queries to be performed, and allows automatic selection of the
- most relevant structures for an alignment acording to a variety of
- criteria.</li>
- <li><strong>Improved support for RNA visualisation</strong><br />Jalview
- 2.9 integrates the latest version of the <a
- href="features/varna.html">VARNA RNA Viewer</a>, and VARNA views
- can also now be stored in Jalview projects. We've also dealt with
- a number of lingering bugs in the VARNA/Jalview interface,
- including the loss of pseudoknots when RNA secondary structure is
- shown VARNA.</li>
- <li><strong>Protein Secondary Structure predictions
- with JPred4</strong><br />Jalview includes a number of new features for
- working with secondary structure predictions from the JPred4
- server. These include new <a href="menus/popupMenu.html#hideinserts">popup menu actions</a> to automatically hide insertions and highlight
- mutations in an alignment with respect to a <a href="calculations/referenceseq.html">Reference
- Sequence</a>. Jalview 2.9's new <a href="io/export.html#htmlexport">scrollable
- SVG HTML export</a> was also developed specifically for the JPred4
- server.</li>
+ <li>OSX: The 'Open File' dialog for Jalview's Groovy Console
+ appears with the title 'Save As', and attempting to select a file
+ to load yields a FileNotFound exception.</br>The workaround is to first
+ clear the 'Untitled' filename before selecting the file you wish
+ to load.
+ </li>
+ <li>OSX: Links don't open when clicked on or via the Sequence
+ or Alignment window popup menu.</li>
+ <li>OSX (Webstart): Jalview only displays old news feed items</li>
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