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News/JBrowse 1.9.0 released
From GMOD
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)
