[Seqan-dev] SeqAn 2.2 released
Dear users and programmers,
We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2 of the SeqAn library and
updated versions of the official SeqAn-based applications. New features
include the preliminary addition of a bi-directional FM-Index and a new
interface for performing multiple sequence alignments at the same time. The
latter uses SIMD [1] features of modern processors to perform up to 16
alignments in parallel *per cpu-core* (in addition to possible application
level multi-threading). Important "under the hood" changes include the
replacement of SeqAn's custom threading framework with C++11's thread library.
This fixes some rare, but long-standing bugs in BAM I/O and improves
performance slightly.
There are also major infrastructural changes, including support for the Intel
Compiler on all platforms and also experimental support for Clang/C2 on
Windows [2]. For the official applications many fixes and improvements to the
build system have made all new and optimized binaries possible that work on
even more platforms.
All publicly documented interfaces are preserved and no supported platforms
where dropped. It is now our policy that this shall not happen in the 2.x
cycle anymore at all so you can trust that your applications work with the
next releases. Do note, however, that we dropped some interfaces and supported
platforms between 2.0 and 2.1.
**Further links**
Full Changelog: https://github.com/seqan/seqan/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst
Downloads: http://packages.seqan.de/
New Homepage: https://www.seqan.de
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD
[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/12/04/clang-with-microsoft-codegen-in-vs-2015-update-1/
Best regards,
--
Hannes Hauswedell
PhD candidate
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics / Freie Universität Berlin
address Institut für Informatik
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Room 019
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telephone +49 (0)30 838-75241
fax +49 (0)30 838-75218
e-mail hannes.hauswedell@[molgen.mpg.de|fu-berlin.de]
