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What's new ?
-
- What's new ?
Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix
- release for Jalview version 2.8.
As usual you can find the
- highlights below, and the comprehensive list is given in the Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes.
-
- 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 Certum.
+ What's new ?
- Enhancements and new features
-
- - Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
- selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works
- - allow import of data from gzipped files
- - Improved per-sequence 'colour-by-annotation' performance
- - Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick files
- - group options for JABAWS service by command line name
- - Select primary source when selecting authority in database
- fetcher GUI
- - COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF
- scope to group annotation rows
- - add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by Jalview
- - groovy scripting for headless jalview operation
- - Output in Stockholm format
-
- Bug fixes
-
- - Uniprot and PDB database cross-reference fetching works
- properly
- - 'View all structures' in the desktop is more reliable
- - Web services parameter dialog box shows the options enabled
- for different presets
- - Interactive creation of RNA secondary structure works more
- smoothly
- - Keyboard mode 'P' command jumps to the right place
- - Improved support for parsing database cross-references via
- Stockholm and Rfam database
- - Improved semantics in annotation files for grouping
- annotation rows associated with particular sequences and groups
- - More robust DNA->Amino acid translation
- - Improved Headless-mode operation for DAS annotation
- retrieval, groovy script execution and alignment figure generation
- - annotation label tooltip text needs to be wrapped
-
+
+ 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.
For the patches since version 2.9 was release, see the
+ Jalview 2.9.0b1 Release Notes.
+
+
+ Highlights in Jalview 2.9
+
+ - Visualisation, editing and analysis of
+ cDNA and Protein alignments
A new Split View window allows linked
+ protein and nucleotide sequence alignments to be viewed, edited,
+ and analysed as one.
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.
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.
+ - Enhanced Integration of UCSF Chimera
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.
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.
+ - Interactive querying of the PDBe
Jalview
+ users can now browse and retrieve 3D structure data from the PDB
+ via the PDBe
+ Search API (Gutmanas
+ et al 2014). 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.
+ - Improved support for RNA visualisation
Jalview
+ 2.9 integrates the latest version of the VARNA RNA Viewer, 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.
+ - Protein Secondary Structure predictions
+ with JPred4
Jalview includes a number of new features for
+ working with secondary structure predictions from the JPred4
+ server. These include new popup menu actions to automatically hide insertions and highlight
+ mutations in an alignment with respect to a Reference
+ Sequence. Jalview 2.9's new scrollable
+ SVG HTML export was also developed specifically for the JPred4
+ server.
+
+