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-<head><title>What's new ?</title></head>\r
-<body>\r
-<p><strong>What's new ?</strong> </p>\r
-<p>Jalview Version 2.08</p>\r
-<p> <a href="editing/index.html">Editing</a> can be locked to the selection area. \r
- Any edits made within the locked area do not affect the rest of the alignment.</p>\r
-<p> Keyboard editing - press F2 to toggle <a href="features/cursorMode.html">cursor mode</a> On / Off. For a full list \r
- of keyboard controls, look <a href="keys.html">here</a>.</p>\r
-<p> <a href="features/search.html">Create sequence features from searches</a>. \r
- Previously, the regions of sequences highlighted as the result of\r
- searches were added as new regions in the alignment. Now, the sequence region\r
- selected by a search can be used to define named sequences features\r
- attached to the sequence, rather than the alignment.\r
- </p>\r
-<p>Sequence feature display and rendering has also been enhanced, with\r
- the addition of sequence feature groups (which can be used to show\r
- or hide a set of feature types <em>en masse</em>) and user defined\r
- feature colours as well as transparency controls, using the <a\r
- href="features/seqfeatures.html">Sequence Feature Settings</a>\r
- window. The <a href="features/featuresFormat.html">Features file</a>\r
- has also been extended to accomodate these enhancements.</p>\r
-<p>Alignment annotation and colouring is also considerably\r
- enhanced. Precalculated symbolic and quantitative annotations (text labels,\r
- secondary structure symbols and multiple scalar graphs) can now be\r
- loaded onto alignments via the <a\r
- href="features/annotationsFormat.html">Annotation\r
- File</a>. Additionally, the <a\r
- href="colourSchemes/annotationColouring.html">Annotation\r
- Colouring</a> dialog box allows an alignment to be coloured based on\r
- any of the graphed quantities with which it is annotated.</p>\r
-<p>Rendering speed has been improved by disabling anti-aliasing via\r
- the <strong>Smooth Fonts</strong>\r
- option in the <strong>View \r
- menu</strong> (its default set in <strong>Preferences</strong>). In addition, response\r
- times when editing alignments can be reduced by turning off the automatic\r
- calculation of amino acid property Consensus (which has been\r
- reintroduced to the <strong>Calculate</strong> menu as <strong>Autocalculate Consensus</strong>).<br>\r
-</p>\r
-<p><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></p>\r
-<ul>\r
-<li>Drag & Drop now works on common Linux desktops (at least KDE\r
-and Gnome)</li>\r
-<li>Jalview XML Archive Input/Output is now faster (using an\r
-internal Jalview schema), and sequence description strings are now\r
-preserved in the archive.</li>\r
-<li>Jalview can now correctly read and write <a\r
-href="http://salilab.org/modeller/modeller.html">MODELLER</a> style\r
-PIR description lines for proteins with a PDB reference.\r
-</li>\r
-</ul>\r
-<p>See the <a href="releases.html">Release History</a> page for details of all\r
- new features and resolved issues. </p>\r
-</body>\r
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+<head>
+<title>What's new ?</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <p>
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Jalview 2.8.2 is the first release produced by our new core
+ development team.<br /> It incorporates many minor improvements and
+ bug-fixes, and new features for working with 3D structure data,
+ shading alignments by secondary structure and generation of alignment
+ figures as Scalable Vector Graphics. <br />The majority of
+ improvements in this version of Jalview concern the desktop
+ application. As ever, the highlights are detailed below,
+ and the full list is given in the <a
+ href="releases.html#Jalview.2.8.2">Jalview 2.8.2 Release Notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Annotation visualisation</strong> <br /> The alignment window
+ includes a new <em>Annotations</em> menu which provides controls for
+ the layout and display of sequence, group and alignment associated
+ annotation rows. It also now includes the <em>Autocalculated
+ Annotation</em> submenu (formerly located in the View menu), which
+ includes settings for the calculation and display of sequence
+ consensus, logos, and amino acid conservation for the alignment and
+ subgroups.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Sequence associated annotation</strong><br /> New controls
+ have also been added to the Sequence ID popup menu for the propagation
+ and display of sequence associated annotation such as secondary
+ structure assignments and disorder predictions. Annotation associated
+ with one or a group of sequence already shown on the alignment may be
+ shown or hidden, and any available annotation from 3D structure or
+ calculations performed in other Jalview windows can be copied to the
+ alignment
+ <em>via</em> the <strong>Add Reference Annotation</strong> option.<br />
+ The <strong>Colour by annotation</strong> function has also been
+ improved, allowing secondary structure annotation to be used to shade
+ sequences and alignment columns. Protein sequences can be coloured
+ according to the presence of a helix or sheet at each position, and
+ RNA sequences can be shaded according to each structure's stem/helix
+ pattern - which enables different RNA folding topologies to be quickly
+ identified.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>3D Structural data analysis and display</strong><br />
+ Jalview now employs Jmol's PDB data API to retrieve secondary
+ structure assignments made by the DSSP algorithm. It can also employ
+ web services to obtain secondary structure assignments from RNA
+ structures. These assignments are shown as sequence associated
+ annotation for sequences which have cross-references to the PDB, or
+ have had PDB files associated with them via the <em>Structures</em>
+ submenu of the sequence ID popup menu. The extraction and display of
+ secondary structure and B-factor column annotation is controlled <em>via</em>
+ a new <strong>Structure</strong> tab in the Jalview Desktop's
+ Preferences dialog box.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <Strong>Interoperation with UCSF Chimera</Strong><br /> The desktop
+ application can now be configured to employ UCSF Chimera for the
+ display of 3D structure data. UCSF Chimera is a python-based
+ high-performance molecular graphics and animation system developed by
+ the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualisation, and Informatics at the
+ University of California.<br />Jalview employs the 'StructureViz'
+ communication mechanism developed for Cytoscape by Morris et al.
+ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17623706) in 2007. This mechanism
+ allows Jalview to send commands to Chimera, enabling structures to be
+ superimposed and shaded according to associated multiple aligmment
+ views. <br />Support for Chimera in Jalview 2.8.2 is experimental, and we
+ would appreciate feedback ! Please send your comments to
+ jalview-discuss@jalview.org, and keep up to date with this feature's
+ development via http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1333.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Export of alignment figures as Scalable Vector
+ Graphics</strong> <br />Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files are now widely
+ supported by web browsers and graphics design programs, and allow
+ high-quality graphics for interactive exploration and publication.
+ Jalview now supports the generation of SVGs interactively (via the
+ Export) menu, and from the command line for server-side figure
+ generation.
+ </p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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