JBrowse 1.12.3
Release 1.12.3 2017-05-02
Pre-Packaged downloads: http://jbrowse.org/jbrowse-1-12-3/
Minor improvements
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Upgraded build system to install dependencies with bower and
updated to dojo 1.9.8 (issue #718). -
Added the ability to load tabix indexed GFF and BED files.
Thanks to Colin Diesh and @zhjilin for contributing (issue #670). -
Added ability to open BED files in the "Open track" user interface
(issue #729). -
Added ability to access SPARQL and other jbrowse data stores via
CORS. Thanks to the WebApollo hackathon and Eric Rasche for
contributing (issue #679). -
Added extra coloring schemes for the Sequence track when using
protein residues. Thanks to Eric Rasche for the idea and
implementation (issue #673). -
Added ability to specify custom exporter classes for the "Save
track data" option, for example, adding exporter code in plugins
(issue #682). -
Added ability to specify custom name store classes via plugins,
which allows plugins to implement their own search functionality
(issue #732). -
Added a timeout for the track feature density calculations which
can aid problems like consistent chunkSizeLimit issues
(issue #540, issue #730). -
Added an option to specify multiple highlights, or bookmarks,
using the config file, a remote service, or the URL bar
(issue #668). -
Added support for parsing BAM files from IonTorrent (issue #782,
issue #568). -
Added support for native file access to .2bit files (issue #759).
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Added list of plugins in about box (issue #848).
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Added cacheMismatches option to improve performance when viewing
long-read alignments (issue #860). -
Added subfeatureDetailLevel config item to make View details box
only load subfeatures on demand (issue #861). -
Added ability to draw scatter plot from BigWig tracks. Thanks to
Keiran Raine for the contribution (issue #741). -
Added a fullviewlink option for the URL bar to disable "View full
link" attribute in embedded JBrowse. Thanks to Vivek Krishnakumar
for contributing (issue #813). -
Added URL parameter &tracklabels=0 and config parameter to hide
track labels (issue #869). -
Added renderAlignment option which creates a per-base alignment
view of the read versus the reference (issue #795). -
Added inferCdsParts option which creates CDS subfeatures from a
continuous CDS region for CanvasFeatures glyphs. Thanks to
Vivek Krishnakumar for the contribution (issue #872). -
Added events tracks/focus, tracks/unfocus, allowing for context
switching based on selected track.
Bug fixes
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Made the menu bar widgets centered again (issue #680).
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Fixed error where the sequence track would not load after "Open
sequence file" (issue #831). -
Fixed problem with persistant "Error reading from name store"
message. Thanks to Anthony Bretaudeau for contributing the fix!
(issue #820). -
Reverted to standard eukaryotic codon set.
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Fixed issue where saving session in JBrowse Desktop where plugins
were not saved with session. -
Fixed an error if there were numerical values being used as label
or description for the CanvasFeatures type tracks. Thanks to
Eric Rasche for reporting (issue #673). -
Fixed some issues where the Gene glyph would not layout some
features correctly. Thanks to Eric Rasche for reporting
(issue #686). -
Fixed an issue with JBrowse Desktop where saving session would not
save the tracks that were not visible. -
Added fix when using indexed fasta from prepare-refseqs.pl.
Thanks to @billzt for the report (issue #719). -
Added a fix for an issue where editing the configuration of files
that were opened by a user didn't work. Thanks to @lpryszcz for
the report (issue #569). -
Fixed some inconsistencies where "Open sequence" on file with a
.fasta file extension failed (issue #696). -
Fixed issue where track labels would re-appear during scroll
(issue #793). -
Added handler for click scrolling in genome view. Thanks to
@exogenesys for fixing (issue #709). -
Fixed a rare error that only affected some versions of Chrome
(issue #758). -
Removed linear gradients from some NeatFeatures tracks
(issue #721). -
Fixed issue where saving GFF3 would fail if the source data
was in VCF format (issue #800). -
Fixed issue where there was a mix of plugin declarations
(issue #866).