Release 37.0

Changes in UGENE v. 37

• External tools update: blast, bowtie, mafft, hmmer3, etc…
• Improved Copy/Paste functionality in Alignment Editor.
• Support for conversion of DNA alignments to RNA and back.
• Usability improvements for import and export from remote database.
• Minor UI improvements in Alignment Editor and Sequence Viewer.

Release 36.0

Changes in the release include:

• Shared database: support for MySQL version 8;
• Phylogeny: improved tree visualization;
• Sequence view: “Copy annotation” behavior is revised;
• Workflow Designer: copied Dashboards now opens correctly;
• User interface: an option to add a Desktop icon from Help menu.

A complete list of changes can be found here.
See also a new video about recent improvements in UGENE.

Release 35.0

• Alignment Editor: sort and group sequences by name and length
• Alignment Editor: search sequences by name
• Alignment Editor: new "Weak Similarities" color scheme
• Improved stability, usability and bugfixes

See details on the UGENE web site.

Release 34.0

The version includes a lot of useful features in the Alignment Editor:

• A new option for realigning a sequence to other sequences of an alignment
• Advanced search options
• Appearance of a selected region in an alignment

Other modifications include storage of the Sequence View appearance preferences, bug-fixes for circular sequences analysis and a lot more. See details on the UGENE web site.

Release 33.0

The new version introduces a bunch of improvements for adding a custom tool into UGENE: tighter integration of your tool with UGENE, enhanced wizard for creating a workflow element for the tool, etc. See details on the UGENE web site.

If you work with multiple sequence alignments, check out a new color scheme "Percentage Identity (colored)".

Release 1.32.0

The new version includes update of the NGS data analysis framework: MetaPhlAn2 tool for metagenomic data classification and other minor improvements.

Release 1.31.0

The new version introduces a lot of major features for NGS data analysis: metagenomics data classification, transcriptomics, de novo assembly, etc.
See details on the UGENE web site.

Release 1.30.0

• The new version is majorly a bug-fix release.
• However, several usability improvements were also added, for example, modification of the selection in the Sequence View. See details on the UGENE web site.

Release 1.29.0

Changes in the release include:

• A new mode for a sequence editing in the Sequence View.
• A new mode for amino acid translations visualization in the Sequence View.
• Usability improvements.
• Bug fixes.

Release 1.28.1

Changes in the release include:

• Tweaking of the Sanger reads mapping feature, based on feedback received
• Fix of a critical issue of searching in amino acid translations of a nucleotide sequence
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements