2.7.0

New Features

• Extended support for bedpe and UCSC interact and bigInteract formats

• Add "Sort by gap size" option to alignment track context (right-click) menu.

• New browser API method to fetch the current genomic region(s) in view. browser.currerntLoci()

• Support CSI index for BAM files.

• Show GFF "gene" features if not part of a composite feature or features (such as trasnscript).

• Enable normalization of coverage tracks (#1153).

• API to sort alignment tracks by base (#893).

• Option to load specific samples for segmented copy number tracks (#814).

• Property values in track configuration objects now have precedence over property values from "track line". (#994, #1068).

• Support UCSC useScore option (#869).

• Add "squished view" option for BAM tracks (#160).

• Support setting color (altColor) for negative strand features (#1149)

2.6.8

Bug fix -- clicking an alignment with "array" type tag values would freeze the browser.

2.6.6

August 2020

• Features of type "gene" from GFF files are now shown by default if they are not parents of any features of type "transcript" or "mRNA". Previously "gene" features were not shown by default.

• Added global function "igv.removeAllBrowsers()"

2.6.5

August 2020

• If a GFF feature does not have an explicit name, but has a parent of type "gene", use the gene name

2.6.4

August 2020

• Bug Fix -- SVG output fails for "wig" tracks

2.6.3

July 2020

• Better handling of oAuth failures from Google URLs.

2.6.2

July 2020

• Fix regression -- restore gaps between tracks

2.6.1

June 2020

• Make the "showAllChromosomes" option true by default. This option controls the chromosome pulldown. if false only the largest chromosomes will be shown. The intent is to filter out the thousands of small scaffolds and contigs sometimes present in fasta files.

2.5.5

May 2020

Bug Fixes

• Restore support for "thenables" for oAuth tokens. Previous release supported Promise only

New Features

• Update CRAVAT links to OpenCRAVAT

2.5.4

April 2020

• Regression bug fix -- support function that returns a promise for an oauth token. Fixes issue #1099