Two drafts of the release notice - pick and choose and merge please!
(they are both too long - we have to make jalview simpler to describe
;-).
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Jims Comment: first - the less wordy bullet version
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Jalview Version 2.0 is now available from http://www.jalview.org. It is
a new and heavily re-engineered version of the java sequence alignment
editor and viewer created by Michelle Clamp in 1997 (which now has over
15,000 hits on Google).
Original features include:
- efficient handling of very large alignments
- wide range of colourschemes for colouring residues by property and conservation
- sequence clustering and tree generation
- definition of sequence groups and alignment regions
- postscript and html output
- wide range of alignment file format I/O
Jalview version 2 has all the original's features, and more:
- Work with many alignments at once
- apply different colourschemes to different parts of an alignment
- Annotate alignments with text and secondary structure labels
- new hampshire tree I/O
- jalview archives to store sets of annotated alignments and trees
- flexible, WYSIWIG generation of EPS figures and PNG images.
- alignment and secondary structure prediction via the web.
Jalview is distributed as a stand-alone installation and Java webstart
application or as a Java 1.1 applet. It is being developed under the GPL
license, as part of the VAMSAS project funded by the BBSRC.
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(Jims Comment: below is a wordy text version
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Jalview Version 2.0 is now available from http://www.jalview.org. It is
a new and heavily re-engineered version of the java sequence alignment
editor and viewer created by Michelle Clamp in 1997 (which now has over
15,000 hits on Google).
The original Jalview was developed to deal with the analysis of large
alignments, and allowed the user to apply colourschemes, define sequence
groupings, investigate sequence groupings and residue conservation.
Importantly, it also understood many different alignment formats for
import and export, and was able to generate a postscript diagram of the
coloured and highlighted alignment.
Jalview version 2.0 has all of the original Jalview's features, and
more. It allows a user to work with many alignments, annotate them with
labels and secondary structure symbols, import and export trees, and
save all your work as a single project file so you can come back to it
at a later date. You can also generate postscript or PNG images for
figures and presentations, and HTML for publishing alignments on the
web.
Jalview is distributed as a stand-alone installation and Java webstart
application or as a Java 1.1 applet. The application version of Jalview
interfaces with web services for alignment and secondary structure
prediction hosted by the School of Life Sciences at the University of
Dundee. It is being developed under the GPL license, as part of the
VAMSAS project funded by the BBSRC.
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From: jalview@jalview.org
Subject: Jalview Version 2.0 is now available
From: jalview@jalview.org
Subject: Jalview Version 2.0 is now available