[GMOD-devel] New Apollo Release 2.0.6(JB#29795a1bbb)

[Monica Munoz-T. <mcm...@lb...>]

*We announce our latest release: Apollo 2.0.6*


*Download our latest release*:
https://github.com/GMOD/Apollo/releases/latest


*New features include: *

   - Improved workflow for optional display of JBrowse native tracks.
   - Improved options to navigate to annotations listed in the *Annotations*
   tab.


*A couple of important bug fixes:  *

   - Fixes problems loading the list of available tracks (*Tracks *tab)
   when switching organisms, specially for slower connections.
   - Fixes naming for annotated genomic elements (other than protein coding
   genes) in the *User-created Annotations* area under various scenarios.


*Apollo for Docker, AMIs:*

   - Our* Docker release* has been updated and is available for download
   at: https://github.com/GMOD/docker-apollo/releases
   - *Amazon Machine Images* for Apollo 2.0.6 (Java 8, Tomcat 8, and Ubuntu
   16.04) are being updated and will be available on AWS in most regions next
   week.


*Thank you!*

We are very thankful to our community of users, admins, and developers who
contribute daily to the improvement of our genome annotation editing tool.

Contribute to this project by visiting our *GitHub tracker* or writing to
the *Mailing List*:

   - Open a GitHub issue at https://github.com/GMOD/Apollo/issues/
   - Post your questions on our mailing list at ap...@li...



*Learn More*

* *Detailed, searchable documentation:* pre-requisites, configuration, and
installation guides: http://genomearchitect.readthedocs.io/

* *Detailed account of all changes* available in the Apollo ChangeLog:
https://github.com/GMOD/Apollo/blob/master/ChangeLog.md

* *Quick-Start Guide for Apollo 2.0.x*: If you already have Apollo
instances running, you can use your current JBrowse data directories. The
quick-start guide is available at: http://genomearchitect.rea
dthedocs.io/en/stable/Apollo2Build.html

* *Migrating existing annotations:* Please find detailed information about
migrating existing installations and their annotations at
http://genomearchitect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Migration.html

** Troubleshooting* guide available at
http://genomearchitect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/Troubleshooting.html

** Apollo User Guide* is available at http://genomearchitect.org/use
rs-guide/

** Public Demo: If you are new to Apollo we encourage you to learn more
about our software and its functionality by taking a tour of our Apollo
Demo at http://genomearchitect.org/demo/ <http://genomearchitect.org/demo/>*

* More information available on the Apollo Website
<http://genomearchitect.org/> and the Apollo repository
<https://github.com/GMOD/Apollo/blob/master/README.md>.


We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
The Apollo Development Team <http://genomearchitect.org/about/>


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Monica Munoz-Torres, PhD.
Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects (BBOP)
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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