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<title>What's new ?</title>
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-<p><strong>What's new ?</strong></p>
-<p><strong>Jalview Version 2.4</strong></p>
-<ul>
- VAMSAS Interoperation Client<br>
- DAS Sequence Fetching<br>
- PFAM full alignment retrieval<br>
- DNA/Protein Product traversal (Experimental)</br>
- .. (more to come)<br>
- URL links can be generated using regular
- expressions and created for sequence database cross references<br>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></p>
-<ul>
- .. (more to come)
-</ul>
-
-<--<p><strong>Jalview Version 2.3</strong></p>
-<ul>
- Jmol 11.0.2 integration<br>
- PDB views stored in Jalview XML files<br>
- Slide sequences<br>
- Edit sequence in place<br>
- EMBL CDS features<br>
- DAS Feature mapping<br>
- Feature ordering<br>
- Alignment Properties<br>
- Annotation Scores<br>
- Sort by scores<br>
- Feature/annotation editing in applet<br>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></p>
-<ul>
- Headless state operation in 2.2.1 <br>
- Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment <br>
- Cut and paste of sequences with annotation <br>
- Feature group display state in XML<br>
- Feature ordering in XML<br>
- 2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency<br>
- Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode<br>
- Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</p>
- </ul>-->
-<p> </p>
-<p>See the <a href="releases.html">Release History</a> page for
-details of all new features and resolved issues.</p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong><br/>
+ Jalview 2.8 includes a number of enhancements and new features that
+ have been in development since July 2010. It is also the first Jalview
+ release to incorporate RNA visualization features developed by Lauren
+ Lui and Jan Engelhart during their Google Summer of Code projects
+ (http://code.google.com/soc/). As usual you can find the highlights
+ below, but to see the comprehensive list take a look at the look at
+ the <a href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">Jalview 2.8 Release Notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <strong>Highlights in Jalview Version 2.8</strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Improved <a href="webServices/JABAWS.html">JABAWS</a>
+ client and new JABAWS 2.0 Services
+ </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="webServices/AACon.html">AACon alignment
+ conservation</a></li>
+ <li><a href="webServices/proteinDisorder.html">Protein
+ disorder</a> - DisEMBL, RONN, GlobPlot and IUPred</li>
+ <li>Clustal Omega for creating huge protein alignments</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><strong><a href="na/index.html">RNA</a></strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Import sequence and alignment associated WUSS or VIENNA
+ dot-bracket notation from files and the <strong>RFAM</strong>
+ database
+ </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 <a
+ href="calculations/structureconsensus.html">base pair consensus
+ score</a> and sequence logo
+ </li>
+ <li>Embedded <a href="features/varna.html">VARNA</a> RNA
+ secondary structure viewer in the Desktop
+ </li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Parse and display <a href="io/tcoffeescores.html">T-COFFEE
+ alignment quality scores</a> (thanks to Paolo di Tomasso of the Notredame
+ Group)
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">Per
+ sequence alignment annotation shading</a></li>
+ <li>Enhanced <a href="calculations/pca.html">PCA viewer</a>: more
+ export options, and switch between different PCA modes and residue
+ score models
+ </li>
+ <li>New Jalview Desktop <a href="webServices/dbreffetcher.html">database
+ fetcher</a> GUI
+ </li>
+ <li>Support for DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 sources (thanks to the new
+ JDAS Distributed Annotation client library (see
+ http://code.google.com/p/jdas))</li>
+ <li>Export sequence database annotation as an <a
+ href="io/exportseqreport.html">HTML report</a></li>
+ <li>Normalised <a href="calculations/consensus.html">Sequence
+ Logo Display</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Issues resolved in the Jalview Desktop</strong>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via wsdbfetch
+ REST service</li>
+ <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
+ <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted
+ for prediction</li>
+ <li>Structure view highlighting doesn't work on windows 7</li>
+ <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using
+ proxy</li>
+ <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in
+ sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
+ <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is
+ shown</li>
+ <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
+ <li>Jalview 2.7 InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run
+ on OSX Mountain Lion
+ <ul>
+ <li>If you use webstart then you may need to go into the
+ Security panel (<em>a.k.a</em> the gatekeeper) in your System
+ Settings, and select the 'allow any code to run' option.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Issues specific to the JalviewLite Applet</strong>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they are
+ hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
+ <li>loading features via javascript API automatically enables
+ feature display</li>
+ <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn't work</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Issues affecting both applet and application</strong>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
+ <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
+ <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
+ coloured with clustalx</li>
+ </ul>
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