v2.9 [Jun 16, 2015]
New Features
MacOS-X: added support for the MacOS 10.10 (Yosemite)
Graphical Sequence View: added ruler for protein coding regions
Dot Matrix View, Multi-pane Cross Alignment View: added Save to PDF export feature
Bug Fixes
MacOS-X: added support for the latest MacOS versions
BAM file format support: fixed crash, improved exception and error handling when opening incorrect BAM files
BAM format support: fixed crashes on loading certain accessions
Alignments display: fixed issues with alignments referring to certain
Fixed crash on startup in situations when network access to update service is unavailable
Fixed remote access to certain type of accessions and annotations (VDB storage type)
Graphical Sequence View: fixed “loading…” text in generated PDF
Graphical Sequence View / Alignment Views: implemented a new color scheme for ATGC colors, it is now coordinated with SNPs. New color scheme is more friendly to certain types of color blindness
Graphical Sequence View: improved performance of alignment rendering, scrolling of views
Graphical Sequence View: fixed bug in export of alignments
Tree View: fixed bug with node highlighting, when user cycles through the search results
Tree View: improved performance of tree sorting when many views are open
Tree View: improved tree-to-tree comparison (broadcasting selections)
Search View: search of Genome assemblies improved to get more consistent results, which can be added to the Project.
Broadcasting Options Dialog: fixed issues with saving options
Project Tree View: improved performance of large projects (selections, actions on selected items, search, etc)
v2.8 [Aug 25, 2014]
New Features:
- Implemented export of Alignments (BAM, cSRA) to tab delimited format (MS Excel) (see Working with BAM files Tutorial).
- Implemented new flexible broadcasting between bio trees, based on prioritized list of node properties (see Broadcasting Tutorial).
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
- Genome Workbench upgraded to use new version of wxWidgets 3.0.1, fixed some MacOS issues.
- Search View: fixed issue with loss of Strong Kozak signals.
- BED reader: fixed crash on certain files.
- GFF reader: fixed some compatibility issues.
- Cross Alignment View: fixed crash.
- Fixed crash on Linux and Mac on minimization of some views.
- File related dialog – added extra checks for file/path validity.
- BLAST Search Tool: performance optimization of dialogs opening, better handling of long tasks.
- Open Dialog – Genomes: fixed bug with showing duplicate items.
- Run Tools dialogs: performance optimization.
- Text View: ‘Find’ improved hot-key processing (Ctrl A to select all).
- Open Dialog: MacOS fixed access to recently used projects and workspaces.
