CHANGES.txt

JBR Genome Browser Changelog
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Here you can see the full list of changes between each release.


Version 2.0.6600
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Released on November 26, 2024

* BAM/SAM/CRAM files support
* Enhanced Bisulfite-Sequence DNA methylation BAM files visualization
* Enhanced actions history support including tracks modifications, navigations, etc.
* Select tracks by name or wildcard
* Detailed information of track data on mouse cursor hover
* Multiple panels support
* GTF file support
* SPAN 2.0 model support
* Enhanced memory management and optimizations due to Amazon-Corrette JDK 21 runtime
* Apple-silicon aarch64 support (M1+ CPU)


Version 1.0.5641
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Released on March 13, 2023

* Create BigWig arithmetics track within the genome browser: sum, average, etc.
* Updated Docker image
* Bugfixes

Version 1.0.5577
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Released on October 13, 2022

* Significantly faster web browser
* Enhanced large BED files rendering with advanced indexing
* Group scale mode for selected tracks
* Headless screenshots done from command line interface
* Support the latest SPAN release
* Advanced SPAN results visualization including underlying HMM model states
* Fixed web-based browser navigation when position is provided in URL
* Check for updates on startup
* Simplified web UI - removed logs view
* New version of bundled Amazon Corretto JRE
* Updated Docker image
* Bugfixes

Version 1.0.beta.5320
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Released on March 24, 2021

* Custom genome configuration editor
* Import and export of IGV sessions
* Import and export of UCSC sessions
* Improved searching and loading tracks from ENCODE portal
* Improved server mode memory consumption
* New version of bundled Amazon Corretto JRE
* Custom log file location support
* Docker image for easily setup a server
* Bugfixes

Version 1.0.beta.5198
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Released on Apr 22, 2020

* Latest SPAN 0.12.0.5096 support
* Support for searching and loading tracks from ENCODE portal
* Server mode visualizing single or multiple sessions in web browser
* Full support of High DPI displays
* Fixes

Version 1.0.beta.4882
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Released on May 17, 2019

* Latest SPAN 0.11.0.4882 support
* Now files without extension or with any extension could be opened as BED files (e.g. SICER files w/o extension)
* UI fixes (Genes track view blinking, Cytobands legend alignment, ..)
* Fixed executable flag for *.sh files in Linux distribution
* Support for any BED3+ files, BED file auto-format feature improved

Version 1.0.beta 2
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Released on March 26, 2019

- Support all the chromosomes including contigs, random and alternative chromosomes
- Support screenshot in Scalable Vector Graphics format
- Support big fonts
- Built-in web server rendering improved
- BED files tuning capabilities by score field
- Improved about information in tabular format
- Fix startup on Linux
- Fixed antialiasing issues on Linux, Windows
- UI improvements
- Various other bugfixes


Version 1.0.beta 1
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Initial release, released on Nov 22, 2018

- Integrated peaks annotating
- On-the-fly peak calling using SPAN models
- Support for observing multiple genome locations simultaneously
- Classical genome browser features to view various genome data formats
- Supported data file formats: BED (including MACS2, SICER peaks), WIG, TDF, BigBed, bigWig
- Supported sessions formats: JBR *.yaml, IGV *.xml session files
- Remote URL bigWig/BigBed/BED files support
- BED track peaks statistics
- BigWig signal statistics track for multiple locations
- Optimized for working with large sessions
- Built-in web server for session sharing