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- <strong>What's new ?</strong><br /> Jalview 2.8.0b1 is a bugfix
- release for Jalview version 2.8. <br /> As usual you can find the
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong><br /> Jalview 2.8.1 includes a range of new features developed in the last 12 months. <br /> As usual you can find the
highlights below, and the comprehensive list is given in the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview2.8.0b1">Jalview 2.8.0b1 Release Notes</a>.
+ href="releases.html#Jalview2.8.1">Jalview 2.8.1 Release Notes</a>.
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- <p>
- 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 <a href="certum.eu">Certum</a>.
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<strong>Enhancements and new features</strong>
<ul>
- <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
- selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred works</li>
- <li>allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
- <li>Improved per-sequence 'colour-by-annotation' performance</li>
- <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick files</li>
- <li>group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
- <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in database
- fetcher GUI</li>
- <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and GROUP_REF
- scope to group annotation rows</li>
- <li>add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by Jalview</li>
- <li>groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
- <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
+ <li>Extended the <a href="features/featuresettings.html">feature settings dialog</a> to allow columns to be selected containing particular sequence features.</li>
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<strong>Bug fixes</strong>
<ul>
- <li>Uniprot and PDB database cross-reference fetching works
- properly</li>
- <li>'View all structures' in the desktop is more reliable</li>
- <li>Web services parameter dialog box shows the options enabled
- for different presets</li>
- <li>Interactive creation of RNA secondary structure works more
- smoothly</li>
- <li>Keyboard mode 'P' command jumps to the right place</li>
- <li>Improved support for parsing database cross-references via
- Stockholm and Rfam database</li>
- <li>Improved semantics in annotation files for grouping
- annotation rows associated with particular sequences and groups</li>
- <li>More robust DNA->Amino acid translation</li>
- <li>Improved Headless-mode operation for DAS annotation
- retrieval, groovy script execution and alignment figure generation</li>
- <li>annotation label tooltip text needs to be wrapped</li>
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