Release Notes
November 28 2023
- Export image of the dotplot as a PNG file
- Added an "undo" option to the ideogram navigation
- Updated design for the chromosome "flip" button
- Simplified right-click context menu options
- Additional minor style and performance improvements
October 12 2023
- Improved gene search using NCBI Datasets annotation tables
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
September 11 2023
- You can now use selector menus on the dotplot view to select and zoom to chromosomes in each assembly
- Fixed a bug preventing visualization of the dotplot on Android mobile browser
- Additional minor style improvements
August 2 2023
- Updated navigation button panel for ideogram view including adding zoom in/out and pan buttons
- Added access to Genome Data Viewer (GDV) to the ideogram view navigation button panel
- Add option to zoom to the alignment from the alignment information popup
- Additional minor improvements and bug fixes
June 23 2023
- Loading indicator added to dotplot view
- Additional minor improvements and bug fixes
May 25 2023
- Exon-intron structure of genes is displayed upon zooming near the gene
- Improved behavior of in-context hints on the ideogram widget
- Added the ability to zoom by dragging over the gene density histogram
- 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 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 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
- Lots of 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!