Congrats Jim and Ben and Mungo and Geoff. Thanks for the shout out.

Bob

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 7:37 PM Jim Procter <[email protected]>
wrote:

> We are quite excited about the release of Jalview 2.11.0!
>
> This major release 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.
>
>   *
>
>     *The Jalview Launcher and Update System*. 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.
>
>     We are grateful to ej Technologies for providing a free open source
>     project license forinstall4j
>     <https://www.ej-technologies.com/products/install4j/overview.html>,
>     and also toThree Rings Design
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rings_Design>for Jalview's new
>     over the air update system:Getdown
>     <https://github.com/threerings/getdown>.
>
>   *
>
>     *VCF Support*. Proteins and genomic contigs with chromosomal
>     location annotation (such as protein coding genes retrieved from
>     Ensembl) can be annotated with variantsimported from a local VCF
>     file <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/features/importvcf.html>.
>
>   *
>
>     *Feature filters and attribute colourschemes*. A newFeature Display
>     Settings
>     <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/features/featureschemes.html>dialog
>     allows filters and feature attribute based colourschemes to be
>     constructed, and a new/filters/column added to theFeature Settings
>     <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/features/featuresettings.html
> >dialog.
>     Jalview's sequence feature datamodel has also been further
>     optimised, and is now maintained as a separate
>     library/IntervalStoreJ/(available
>     athttps://github.com/bartongroup/IntervalStoreJ)
>
>   *
>
>     *Alternative tables for CDS translation*. TheTranslate as cDNA
>     <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/menus/alwcalculate.html>option now
>     offers alternative amino acid coding schemes.
>
>   *
>
>     *PCA plots stored in Jalview Projects*. ThePCA viewer
>     <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/calculations/pca.html>user
>     interface has also been improved.
>
>   *
>
>     *Backup files*. 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. TheBackups tab
>     <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/features/preferences.html#backups>in
>     Jalview's preferences dialog allows the number and format of backup
>     filenames to be configured.
>
> The full list of bugs fixed in this release can be found in the2.11
> Release Notes
> <http://www.jalview.org/help/html/releases.html#Jalview.2.11.0>.
>
> *Jalview and Java 11, and onwards*
>
> 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.
>
> /Saying goodbye.../
>
> Long time Jalview users will notice that this release no longer features
> the/Vamsas/desktop menu, or a/Distributed Annotation System (DAS)/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.
>
> /Next up.../
>
> 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/http://www.jalview.org/jalview-js//in Chrome or Firefox.
>
> Best wishes for 4th of July from Jim, Ben, Suzanne, Mungo, Geoff and
> also Bob!
>
> --
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> Dr JB Procter, Jalview Coordinator, The Barton Group
> Division of Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences
> University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.
> +44 1382 388734 | www.jalview.org | www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk
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