Release Notes
May 2023
- genes display exon-intron structure when zoomed enough
- improved behavior of in-context hints on the ideogram widget
- added the ability to zoom by dragging over the gene’s density histogram
- added the ability to return to the whole genome dotplot using the web browser back button
- new dotplot view is available
- alignment connectors are shown even when one end of the alignment is offscreen
- fixed a bug that prevented you from going to a previous view using the web browser back button
- additional minor improvements and bug fixes
April 2023
- You can now flip the orientation of a chromosome to better evaluate gene synteny in regions that are inverted in one assembly relative to another
March 2023
- you can now download the FASTA alignment file for an alignment segment via the right-click menu
- you can open the pairwise alignment in the NCBI MSA viewer via the right-click menu
- you can also open a panel that shows a preview of the alignment sequence
- Genome Data Viewer (GDV) opened from the right-click menu will zoom to the same coordinates as shown in CGV
- we improved the order of organisms in the selection menu on the CGV home page
- made improvements to page accessibility and rendering on mobile devices
- additional animal cross-species alignments added
- additional small improvements and bug fixes
January 2023
- new visual style for alignments including "twist" for reverse alignments
- forward and reverse alignments are colored distinctly (green and purple)
- new filtering option to view only forward or reverse alignments
- you can now click on annotated gene to zoom to the region in the alignment
- added more in-context hints
- additional style tweaks
December 2022
- new ability to search for genes in the viewer
- you can now adjust the font size of labels and other text in the viewer
- downloaded SVG image can be edited in a wider range of image editors
- additional bug fixes and style tweaks
October 2022
- you can download an SVG image of the view you are looking at
- the size of the alignment is now reported in the alignment information popover
- navigation, view, and download options added to the alignment context right-click menu
- some bug fixes and style updates
September 2022
- you can switch your view to show all alignments, not just reciprocal best placed alignments
- new Download menu for alignment data downloads
- style changes to assembly titles on viewer page
- style and behavior changes to alignment information popover
- style changes to block size slider
August 2022
- non-RefSeq assembly alignments are available
- GDV genome browser sessions are now pre-configured to show assembly-assembly alignments as alignment and graph tracks
- updates to behavior of alignment selection menu
July 2022
- CGV is released as beta! Enjoy!