1.1.0.beta6

• Show length distribution of hits per query (credit: Hiten Chowdhary). Like circos, this visualisation is drawn only when user clicks the corresponding button.
• Do not draw alignments overview (per query) on page load if number of queries is >250. In this case, the user must click the corresponding button to render the visualisation.
• Once all results have been retrieved from the server, update the page with results of 50 queries every 500 ms. Along with the optimisation above, this allows us to render large results - tested up to 1200 queries and 1500 hits. The page remains responsive (e.g., scrolling) while it is being updated and after, however, there are two caveats still when viewing large results:
  • Some features, such as selecting hits for download, ability to download FASTA and pairwise alignments for a single hit, and affixing of sidebar are not activated till the entire result has been rendered and currently there is no clear way to communicate this to the user.
  • Visualisations are slow to render and hide on click.
• Displaying of appropriate error messages when BLAST failed was broken due to a typo in the code. Fixed it (credit: Tomáš Pluskal).
• Make entering taxid optional again when creating BLAST databases from FASTA file (reported by: Tomáš Pluskal)