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<title>What's new ?</title>
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- <p>
- <strong>What's new ?</strong>
- </p>
- <p>Jalview 2.8 includes a brand new logo, which you'll see in file
- browsers, splash screens, and also on the new look Jalview site.</p>
- <p>
- In addition to our new look, Jalview 2.8 includes a number of new
- features.. some of which have been in development since July 2010. The
- highlights are below, and - as usual, for a comprehensive list, take a
- look at the <a href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">Jalview 2.8 Release
- Notes</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Highlights in Jalview Version 2.8</strong>
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Improved JABA client and new JABAWS 2.0 Services
- <ul>
- <li>AACon alignment conservation</li>
- <li>Protein disorder - DisEMBL, RONN, GlobPlot and IUPred</li>
- <li>Clustal Omega - huge protein alignments</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li><strong>Support for RNA</strong>
- <ul>
- <li>Import sequence and alignment associated WUSS or VIENNA
- secondary structure notation from stockholm and clustalW files or
- as jalview annotation.</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 base pair consensus score and sequence logo</li>
- <li>Embedded <a href="http://varna.lri.fr/">VARNA</a> RNA
- secondary structure viewer in the Desktop
- </li>
- </ul> See <a href="na/index.html">Nucleic Acid Support</a> for full
- details.</li>
- <li>Parse and display T-COFFEE alignment quality scores</li>
- <li>Shade individual sequence positions according to alignment
- annotation scores</li>
- <li>Enhanced PCA viewer: more export options, and switch between
- different PCA modes and residue score models</li>
- <li>New Jalview Desktop database fetcher GUI</li>
- <li>Support for DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 sources</li>
- <li>Export sequence database annotation as HTML report</li>
- <li>Normalised Sequence Logo Display</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- <strong>Issues Resolved (a select list - see the <a
- href="releases.html#Jalview2.8">release history</a> for full details)
- </strong>
- </p>
- <p>
- <strong>Issues in the Jalview Desktop</strong>
- <ul>
- <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via wsdbfetch
- REST service<!--<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-636'>JAL-636</a>-->
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368'>JAL-368</a>] - -->
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-153'>JAL-153</a>] - -->Stop
- windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-758'>JAL-758</a>] - -->Filetype
- associations not installed for webstart launch
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-849'>JAL-849</a>] - -->Jalview
- does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in full
- once it is complete
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-983'>JAL-983</a>] - -->View
- all structures superposed fails with exception
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-994'>JAL-994</a>] - -->Jnet
- job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for
- prediction
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1022'>JAL-1022</a>] - -->Structure
- view highlighting doesn't work on windows 7
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1026'>JAL-1026</a>] - -->Jalview
- desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1031'>JAL-1031</a>] - -->Tree
- calculation reports 'you must have 2 or more sequences
- selected' when selection is empty
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1062'>JAL-1062</a>] - -->DAS
- Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence xref
- which includes range qualification
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1111'>JAL-1111</a>] - -->Cannot
- close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1131'>JAL-1131</a>] - -->Edited
- sequence not submitted to web service
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1134'>JAL-1134</a>] - -->Jalview
- 2.7 Webstart and InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run
- on OSX Mountain Lion
- <ul>
- <li>The workaround for webstart is to go into the Security
- panel (gatekeeper symbol) under System settings, and select the
- 'allow any code to run' setting.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1144'>JAL-1144</a>] - -->Annotation
- panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment annotation
- are pasted into the alignment
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1148'>JAL-1148</a>] - -->Sequence
- associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview
- project
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1145'>JAL-1145</a>] - -->Exceptions
- when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new window
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1149'>JAL-1149</a>] - -->Browser
- launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
- </li>
+ <p>
+ <strong>What's new ?</strong>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Jalview 2.9 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 full list of changes, see the
+ <a href="releases.html#Jalview.2.9">Jalview 2.9 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>
- </ul>
-
- <strong>Issues specific to the JalviewLite Applet</strong>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-962'>JAL-962</a>] - -->Sequence
- features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using
- hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-965'>JAL-965</a>] - -->loading
- features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1170'>JAL-1170</a>] - -->scrollToColumnIn
- javascript API method doesn't work
- </li>
- </ul>
- <strong>Issues affecting both applet and application</strong>
- <em>General</em>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1007'>JAL-1007</a>] - -->Redundancy
- removal fails for rna alignment
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1033'>JAL-1033</a>] - -->PCA
- window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1086'>JAL-1086</a>] - -->Letters
- coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with clustalx
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1099'>JAL-1099</a>] - -->Choosing
- fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw
- errors
- </li>
- <li>
- <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1123'>JAL-1123</a>] - -->Initial
- PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view
- </li>
- </ul>
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