[Molvis-list] FirstGlance 0.99 Pre-Release

[Eric Martz]

I have put a pre-release of FirstGlance in Jmol 0.99 at

http://bioinformatics.org/firstglance/fgij

Please try this new version and let me know of any unexpected results, 
bugs, or suggestions. I anticipate that after a settling/debugging period 
of about a week, 0.99 will supercede the present public version 0.98 (at 
firstglance.jmol.org). I have tested Windows IE/Firefox, and Mac OSX 10.3.9 
Safari/Firefox. (I don't have OSX 10.4.)

MAJOR NEW FEATURES IN 0.99

-- A "Find.." dialog that highlights residues specified with sequence 
numbers or ranges. Something along this line was requested by NSMB before 
Evelyn Jabri departed. A link, with explanation, to Dunbrack's S2C listing 
-- available from "Find.." or "More Views..". S2C reveals gaps in the 
structural coordinates, typically due to crystallographic disorder.

-- A "Contacts.." dialog that shows non-covalent bonds between any "target" 
you select (usually by clicking on it) and the remainder of the model. 
Non-covalent bonds are divided into five types, and each type can be shown 
or hidden. "Contacts.." required by far the largest amount of code among 
all the features of FirstGlance, but I thought it well worth the effort.

-- All salt bridges or cation-pi interactions can be shown from a new link 
under More Views..

List of all changes in this version:
http://bioinformatics.org/firstglance/fgij/versions.htm

The main enhancement planned between version 0.99 and future version 1.0 is 
support for translations to Spanish and other languages.

-Eric

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