News/JBrowse 1.9.0 released
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)
Posted to the GMOD News on 2013/04/16
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