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- <strong>Jalview 2.11 - new installer and new capabilities</strong>
+ <strong>Welcome to Jalview Version $$Version-Rel$$ !!</strong>
+ <br />Please take a
+ look at the <a href="releases.html#Jalview.$$Version-Rel$$">release
+ notes</a> for this build. Read on for the highlights.
</p>
- <p>Jalview 2.11 introduces support for loading VCF files, and new
- filters and shading models for sequence features. Under the hood,
- we've addressed many bugs, and also made some important changes in
- the way the Jalview desktop is installed and launched.</p>
- <ul>
- <li><strong>The Jalview Launcher and Update System</strong>.
- Jalview's new installation model means you'll only need to
- download and install Jalview once. After installation, Jalview
- will automatically keep itself up to date. The launcher also sets
- Jalview's memory automatically, so you'll never again have to
- manually configure Java's memory settings.<br />We are grateful
- to ej Technologies for providing a free open source project
- license for <a
- href="https://www.ej-technologies.com/products/install4j/overview.html">install4j</a>,
- and also to <a
- href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rings_Design">Three
- Rings Design</a> for Jalview's new over the air update system: <a
- href="https://github.com/threerings/getdown">Getdown</a>.</li>
- <li><strong>VCF Support</strong>. Proteins and genomic contigs with
- chromosomal location annotation (such as protein coding genes
- retrieved from Ensembl) can be annotated with variants <a
- href="features/importvcf.html">imported from a local VCF file</a>.</li>
- <li><strong>Feature filters and attribute colourschemes</strong>. A new
- <a href="features/featureschemes.html">Feature Display
- Settings</a> dialog allows filters and feature attribute based
- colourschemes to be constructed, and a new <em>filters</em> column
- added to the <a href="features/featuresettings.html">Feature
- Settings</a> dialog. Jalview's sequence feature datamodel has also
- been further optimised, and is now maintained as a separate
- library <em>IntervalStoreJ</em> (available at https://github.com/bartongroup/IntervalStoreJ)</li>
- <li><strong>Alternative tables for CDS translation</strong>. The <a
- href="menus/alwcalculate.html">Translate as cDNA</a> option now
- offers alternative amino acid coding schemes.</li>
- <li><strong>PCA plots stored in Jalview Projects</strong>. The <a
- href="calculations/pca.html">PCA viewer</a> user interface has
- also been improved.</li>
- <li><strong>Backup files</strong>. Jalview will automatically
- create backups when overwriting existing files, and - unlike with
- earlier versions, should Jalview crash during a save, the original
- file will be unaffected. The <a
- href="features/preferences.html#backups">Backups tab</a> in
- Jalview's preferences dialog allows the number and format of
- backup filenames to be configured.</li>
- </ul>
<p>
- The full list of bugs fixed in this release can be found in the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview.2.11.0">2.11 Release Notes</a>.
+ <strong>Highlights in 2.11.2</strong>
</p>
<p>
- <strong>Jalview and Java 11, and onwards</strong>
- </p>
- <p>The Jalview application comes bundled with its own independent
- Java installation. Version 2.11.0 includes an AdoptOpenJDK Java 1.8
- runtime which will be kept up to date. A Java 11 based installation
- is available from the Jalview development pages.</p>
- <p>
- <em>Saying goodbye...</em><br>Long time Jalview users will notice
- that this release no longer features the
- <em>Vamsas</em> desktop menu, or a <em>Distributed
- Annotation System (DAS)</em> tab on the feature settings dialog.
- DAS is no longer supported by major bioinformatics databases, and we
- decided that it was no longer feasible to maintain either JDAS or
- the VAMSAS client library which rely on out-dated Java XML binding
- technologies.
- </p>
- <p>
- <em>Next up...</em><br /> Keep an eye on the Jalview web site for
- news about JalviewJS - the web based JavaScript implementation of
- Jalview. Whilst Jalview 2.11 has been in development, we have also
- been working with Prof. Bob Hanson (Jmol and JSmol) to enable
- Jalview to run as both a Java application and a JavaScript app in a
- web page. To find out more, open <em>http://www.jalview.org/jalview-js/</em>
- in Chrome or Firefox.
- </p>
+ <strong>New features for working with 3D Structure</strong><br />
+ Jalview 2.11.2 features a number of new capabilities:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Linked viewing with <em>ChimeraX</em> and
+ <em>PyMol</em></strong><br />Simply configure your preferred viewer for 3D
+ molecular data in <a href="features/preferences.html#structure">Jalview's
+ structure preferences</a>, make sure that Jalview can locate the
+ viewer's installation, and open a new view via the 3D Structure
+ Chooser!</li>
+ <li><strong>View predicted protein structures via
+ 3D-Beacons</strong><br /> Jalview 2.11.2's <a
+ href="features/structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser
+ includes a client for the 3D-Beacons Network</a>, a new service that
+ allows predicted and observed 3D models for proteins in Uniprot
+ from a range of resources, including AlphaFold DB, SWISS-MODEL and
+ a growing number of other resources.</li>
+ <li><strong>Easier configuration of <a href="features/preferences.html#startup">Jalview's memory allocation</a></strong>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Retrieval of 3D models via 3D-Beacons</strong> <br>The
+ 3D-Beacons network (<a
+ href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb/3dbeacons/">www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb/3dbeacons/</a>)
+ provides a central point for the retrieval of predicted and
+ observed 3D structures for sequences in Uniprot, including
+ homology models from Swiss-model and deep learning based
+ predictions from the EBI's Alphafold database (Orengo et al. 2020,
+ <a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20559.1">doi:10.12688/f1000research.20559.1</a>).<br>
+ See the <a href="features/structurechooser.html">Structure
+ Chooser's documentation</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Support for viewing structures with ChimeraX and
+ Pymol</strong><br> Jalview's 3D structure viewer system has been
+ re-architected to allow easier integration of external structure
+ viewers, and takes advantage of the strucViz2 Chimera
+ communications library developed by Scooter Morris (<a
+ href="https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm329">doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm329</a>).
+ The Structures Preferences tab provides new options
+ allowing ChimeraX and Pymol to be used for visualising external 3D
+ structures. Jalview 2.11.2 has been tested with Pymol 2.5.0
+ (community) and 2.5.2 (incentive). For ChimeraX, we recommend
+ using v1.3 or later.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For the full release notes, see <a
+ href="releases.html#Jalview.2.11.2.0">the Jalview 2.11.2.0
+ release notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Known Issues</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p></p>
+ </ul>
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