CLC Sequence Viewer

CLC Sequence Viewer (formerly CLC Free Workbench) creates a software environment enabling users to make a large number of bioinformatics analyses, combined with smooth data management, and excellent graphical viewing and output options.

New features and improvements

• All NCBI server communication is now encrypted. (NCBI will be moving all web services to the HTTPS protocol on September 30, 2016).
• The list of enzymes pre-installed in the workbench has been updated from REBASE.
• The Quick Launch tool is now found under the Toolbox menu instead of the View menu and a button called Launch that brings up this tool has been added to the toolbar.
• The option "is not in list" has been introduced as a new table filtering option.
• The "Sort folder" tool now uses numerical sorting for filenames prefixed with a number.
• New placeholders are available when defining the names of exporter outputs: {user}, {host}, and for elements of the timestamp of the output object, {year}, {month}, {day}, {hour, {minute}, {second}.
• Placeholders within export output names that were previously available only as digits can now be specified using written names: {input} is a synonym for {1}, {extension} is a synonym for {2} and {counter} is a synonym for {3}.
• GenBank import now also allows for file names with 'GBFF' extension.
• Read group details are now shown on the Element Info view of sequence lists.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a rare issue where some annotations could, but did not necessarily, go missing on sequences with greater than 1000 annotations of a given type on that sequence before the deletion and where the right-click context menu option "Delete selection" was used.
• Fixed a bug in the "Manage Enzymes" wizard that prevented a user from cancelling the action if "Save as new enzyme list" was enabled.
• Fixed an issue with the Import Metadata tool where, if a spreadsheet had already been loaded, then selecting the same spreadsheet again did not reload the spreadsheet content.
• Fixed an issue where it took a long time to open a workbench it it was previouslyclosed when displaying an open table editor that had been sorted.
• Fixed an issue where right-clicking on a graph in a report and choosing to show "Report", "History" or "Element Info" triggered an error.
• Various minor bugfixes.