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News/JBrowse 1.9.0 released
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Revision as of 14:09, 17 April 2013 by RobertBuels (Talk | contribs)
JBrowse 1.9.0 is out today, with some great new features, and lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
It can be downloaded from jbrowse.org.
Headline features for this release:
- VCF variants support: we've added a new direct-access data backend for reading VCF files that have been compressed and indexed with bgzip and tabix, along with a new track type (HTMLVariants) optimized for viewing the sometimes-huge amounts of detail (particularly genotypes) associated with VCF variants.
- Wiggle track types now by default choose a y-axis scale dynamically for the region being displayed (set as
"autoscale": "local"
in JBrowse configuration JSON). This is a big win for usability! Thanks to Gregor Rot and Raymond Wan for pushing for this feature! - If configured to do so, JBrowse can now display a dropdown dataset selector on the left side of the menu bar (similar to the one in GBrowse) that lets users switch between multiple datasets in the same JBrowse installation.
- The default "Simple" track selector now has a search input at the top that can quickly filter the list of displayed tracks to find the text you type.
- JBrowse now ships with a REST datastore backend that lets developers serve data to JBrowse from custom back-end systems. See JBrowse_Configuration_Guide#JBrowse_REST_Feature_Store_API for details.
Happy browsing!
--RobertBuels (talk) 10:09, 17 April 2013 (EDT)