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<title>What's new ?</title>
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- <p>
- <strong>What's new ?</strong></p>
- <p>Jalview 2.8.1 includes a range of new features developed over 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#Jalview2.8.1">Jalview 2.8.1 Release Notes</a>.
- </p>
- <p>The Desktop and web based applet include new keystrokes for
- defining and undefining groups, and PAM250 has been added to the range
- of score models available for use by the tree and PCA calculations.
- The Jalview project file format has also been extended for handling
- RNA and protein secondary structure annotation, in anticipation for
- new structure based secondary structure support in Jalview 2.8.2.</p>
- <p><strong>Internationalisation</strong></p>
- <p>Jalview 2.8.1 is the first release to include support for
- displaying Jalview's user interface in different languages. In August
- 2013, David Roldán-Martinez took on the task of
- internationalising Jalview's user interface. He also recruited Sara
- Hernández Díaz and Laura Ferrandis Martinez who created
- Jalview's first spanish user interface translation.</p>
- <p>
- If you notice any problems, or would like to help translate Jalview's
- user interface into other languages, head over to <a
- href="http://issues.jalview.org">issues.jalview.org</a> and put in a
- feature request describing the translations you can provide to the <a
- href="http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL/component/10682">i18n
- component</a>. David has also <a
- href="https://wiki.jalview.org/index.php/Development:i18n">documented
- the process of creating i18n translations</a> to help you get started.
- </p>
- <p><strong>RNA Secondary Structure Prediction with JABA 2.1</strong></p>
- <p>
- This version of Jalview includes a client to access the new services available in <a
- href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jaba">JABA v2.1</a> , which
- provides services for RNA consensus secondary structure prediction and
- two new alignment programs (<a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/glprobs/">GLProbs</a> and <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/msaprobs/">MSAProbs</a>).</p>
- <p>
- To see how to perform RNA secondary structure predictions like the one below, take a look at the <a href="webServices/RNAalifold.html">RNAAliFold
- client documentation</a>.
- </p>
- <div align="center">
- <img src="webServices/RNAalifoldAnnotationRows.png" width="500" height="216"> <br> <em>The RNAalifold client was implemented by Jalview's 2013
- summer student, Dan Barton.</em>
- </div>
+ <p>
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ 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.</p><p>For the patches since version 2.9 was release, see the
+ <a href="releases.html#Jalview.2.9.0b1">Jalview 2.9.0b1 Release Notes</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Highlights in Jalview 2.9</strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Visualisation, editing and analysis of
+ cDNA and Protein alignments</strong><br />A new <a
+ href="features/splitView.html">Split View</a> window allows linked
+ protein and nucleotide sequence alignments to be viewed, edited,
+ and analysed as one. <br />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.<br />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.</li>
+ <li><strong>Enhanced Integration of UCSF Chimera</strong> <br>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.<br />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.</li>
+ <li><strong>Interactive querying of the PDBe</strong><br />Jalview
+ users can now <a href="features/pdbsequencefetcher.html">browse</a> and <a href="features/viewingpdbs.html">retrieve 3D structure</a> data from the PDB
+ via the <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/api/doc/search.html">PDBe
+ Search API</a> (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fnar%2Fgkt1180">Gutmanas
+ et al 2014</a>). 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.</li>
+ <li><strong>Improved support for RNA visualisation</strong><br />Jalview
+ 2.9 integrates the latest version of the <a
+ href="features/varna.html">VARNA RNA Viewer</a>, 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.</li>
+ <li><strong>Protein Secondary Structure predictions
+ with JPred4</strong><br />Jalview includes a number of new features for
+ working with secondary structure predictions from the JPred4
+ server. These include new <a href="menus/popupMenu.html#hideinserts">popup menu actions</a> to automatically hide insertions and highlight
+ mutations in an alignment with respect to a <a href="calculations/referenceseq.html">Reference
+ Sequence</a>. Jalview 2.9's new <a href="io/export.html#htmlexport">scrollable
+ SVG HTML export</a> was also developed specifically for the JPred4
+ server.</li>
+ </ul>
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