[Clovr-users] New beta release for CloVR (beta-0.5)

[Sam Angiuoli]

The team is pleased to announce a new beta release of the CloVR virtual
machine for automated sequence analysis.
http://clovr.org/download

We are working towards a stable 1.0 release next year and will continue beta
releases on a monthly basis as we work to improve usability, reliability and
get user feedback.

Highlights of this release include

   - Improved reliability, error reporting, and numerous bug fixes
   - New graphical startup screen and admin console
   - Updates to clovrMicrobe to match latest IGS Annotation Engine
pipeline<http://ae.igs.umaryland.edu/>
   - Assembly (454 and Illumina) and genome annotation components of
   clovrMicrobe can all be run as stand-alone pipelines
   - Additional output and visualizations for 16s and metagenomics pipelines
   - Improvements to auto-scaling of cloud instances for BLAST, microbe, and
   metagenomics pipelines
   - Initial support for GBrowse
   - Initial pipeline for comparative genomics that predicts orthologs and
   characterizes a bacterial pan-genome (clovrComparative)
   - Initial pipeline for short read mapping using Bowtie or CrossBow
   (clovrMapping)
   - Initial support and testing for the DIAG academic
cloud<http://diagcomputing.org/>running
   Nimbus <http://www.nimbusproject.org/>
   - Added documentation for the appliance API and web
services<http://vappio.sf.net/>that support provisioning virtual
clusters, data transfer to/from the cloud,
   and executing workflows
   - Initial support for CloVR as a platform to build custom VMs. The latest
   Qiime VM<http://qiime.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/qiime-1-2-0-is-available/>was
built using CloVR.

Special thanks to all the contributors for the releases this year: Cesar
Arze, Florian Fricke, Kevin Galens, Stephen Mekosh, Malcolm Matalka, Dave
Riley, Mahesh Vangala, James White.
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