2.0.0-alpha.0

This is the very first alpha release of version 2.0 of the Unipept Desktop application! This is a very exciting release since it's the first one that allows our users (you!) to test completely new features that are the result of our hard work from the past two years 🎉

It is now possible to construct a custom protein reference database (based upon UniProtKB) to perform analyses with. This allows you to perform a metaproteomics analysis on a subset of all organisms that are found in UniProt, which can lead to a higher accuracy of the analysis results and better performance of the analysis. This is also a first major step in the right direction towards fully supporting proteogenomics analysis (combining the information of both a metagenomics and metaproteomics experiment in order to improve analysis results).

Existing installations of the Unipept Desktop application will not be upgraded automatically to this version (since it still is a alpha release). The stability of this release can not be guaranteed and upgrading is not recommended at this time if the application is being used in production environments.

This version of Unipept Desktop requires Docker Desktop to be installed if you want to build custom protein reference databases. Docker Desktop can be downloaded from this link if it's not yet installed on your system.

New features / enhancements:

• Support for constructing custom protein reference databases (#176)
• Peptides can now also be imported from files for manual assay creation (#176)
• Updated homepage and improved user experience (#176)
• Updated analysis page and improved user experience (#176)
• Updated Electron from v11 to v19 (#176)
• Redundant or useless settings have been removed from the settings page (#176)

Bug fixes:

• Native file picker was not always used on some Linux distros (#176)

Known issues:
Since this is still an alpha release, there are some things that are known not to work at this point in time. This is a non-exhaustive list of all issues that are currently known, but note that there are probably more (that are currently still unknown).

• Duplicating an assay does not work
• Cancelling the analysis of an assay does not work
• Start time of analysis is not always correct
• Errors that occur during the construction of a custom database are not always correctly reported
• The user interface of the application is not final yet and will be improved over the coming weeks / months