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<title>What's new ?</title>
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- <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>
+ <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>
+
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