SnapGene Version 5.0.8

SnapGene 5.0.8 was released on March 22, 2020.

Enhancements

• Added support for importing whole genome shotgun sequencing projects from NCBI.
  (Requested by Chance Meers)
• Added a sequence length indicator for sequences imported into the Assemble Contigs dialog.
• Made various text, color, and icon enhancements.
• Enabled "Save All", "Save to Collection", and "Save to Main Collection" commands when multiple files are selected in a collection.

Fixes

• Corrected an issue that could cause the font used in Sequence view to be wrong on Windows. (Reported by Ben Mcneil, Anna Doyle, Terese Tansey, and Dominic Esposito)
• Fixed an issue that prevented double-clicking from opening files with spaces in their names on Lubuntu Linux.(Reported by Sahand Jamal Rahi)
• Ensured that features that wrap around the numerical origin are always properly displayed. (Reported by Théo Grebert)
• Corrected an issue that prevented opening sequence traces from remote locations when the file path includes non-Latin characters.
  (Reported by Yusuke Maeda)
• Fixed a stability issue when expanding the "Aligned Sequences" menu using SnapGene Viewer.
  (Reported by Venkat Kalyana Sundaram)
• Ensured correct creation of features with annotated gaps from selected aligned sequences.
  (Reported by Olaf Kranse)
• Ensured that newly imported sequences for aligning to a reference DNA sequence are always trimmed properly.
  (Reported by Ridvan Cetin)
• Prevented a collection from becoming unresponsive when adding files manually before dismissing the "Add DNA File" dialog.
  (Reported by Gage Leighto)
• Fixed an issue with writing feature names to GenBank format for assembly_gap, mobile_element, propeptide, regulatory, and telomere feature types.
  (Reported by Hassan Tarabai)
• Ensured that release notes are consistently shown when announcing that a new version of SnapGene is available.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the End User License Agreement dialog being too tall on smaller displays.
• Ensured that matches to searches are always shown.
• Ensured that Shift-clicking items in a list consistently results in a range-based selection.
• Fixed an issue that prevented aligning a pair of DNA or protein sequences on some Linux systems.
• Improved the conversion of DNA alignments to protein alignments.
• Improved the mouse cursor for various controls that show tooltips but do not respond to mouse presses.
• Ensured proper display of the message indicating that hybridization parameters need to be adjusted to show primer binding sites.
• Removed the "Show alignments" button from the side toolbar in the Design Synthetic Construct dialog.
• Ensured correct labeling of protein feature segments after making a protein from a DNA feature that contains introns.
• Changed "bases" to to "residues" in the REFERENCE field when exporting protein sequences to GenPept format.
• Corrected an issue with annotating common features that are found at the beginning of the sequence.
• Improved highlighting of feature boundaries under the mouse cursor when using compact format in Sequence view.
• Fixed an issue that prevented import of unsaved open sequences into the "Assemble Contigs" dialog.
• Corrected a stability issue that resulted from closing a window while a menu was expanded.
• Corrected an issue with aligning multiple DNA sequences that were recently imported from NCBI.
• Ensured that header buttons are not always aligned with the column content when viewing a collection in List format.
• Improved the behavior when double-clicking folders in collections.
• Ensured that appropriate icons are shown next to unsaved files in the Window menu.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent operation of the MUSCLE aligner.
• Ensured that the Print and Save buttons in the toolbar are always correctly enabled or disabled when viewing a collection.
• Corrected an issue in which protein sequences that count from a value other than 1 were sometimes shifted to the right in Sequence view.
• Improved the display of a cursor placed within a gap when viewing alignments to a reference DNA sequence in Sequence view.
• Corrected an issue that could result in feature labels being shown without being connected by a stem.