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22 <head>
23 <title>Release History</title>
24 </head>
25 <body>
26 <p><strong>Release History</strong></p>
27 <table border="1">
28                 <tr>
29                         <td width="60" nowrap>
30                                 <div align="center">
31                                         <em><strong>Release</strong></em>
32                                 </div>
33                         </td>
34                         <td>
35                                 <div align="center">
36                                         <em><strong>New Features</strong></em>
37                                 </div>
38                         </td>
39                         <td>
40                                 <div align="center">
41                                         <em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em>
42                                 </div>
43                         </td>
44                 </tr>
45                 <tr>
46                         <td><div align="center">
47                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
48                                 </div></td>
49                         <td><em>General</em>
50                                 <ul>
51                                 <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by Certum.PL.</li>
52                                         <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing pairwise
53                                                 alignment</li>
54                                         <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
55                                                 imported/exported/displayed</li>
56                                         <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; can colour by RNA and
57                                                 protein secondary structure</li>
58                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
59                                 <ul>
60                                         <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences with
61                                                 3D structures</li>
62                                         <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
63                                         <li>Annotations menu for layout
64                                                 <ul>
65                                                         <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
66                                                         <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
67                                                                 annotation</li>
68                                                 </ul>
69                                         <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
70                                         <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es) translation</li>
71                                         <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
72                                         <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks shared
73                                                 between alignments</li>
74                                         <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from Jalview</li>
75                                         <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for all
76                                                 or current selection</li>
77                                         <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions available as
78                                                 dataset annotation</li>
79                                         <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
80
81
82                                         <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
83                                                 alignments from Rfam</li>
84                                         <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
85
86                                         <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
87                                                 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
88                                         <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
89                                         <li>include installation type in build properties and console
90                                                 log output</li>
91                                         <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset annotation</li>
92                                 </ul></td>
93                         <td>
94                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
95                                 <ul>
96                                         <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
97                                                 structure in structure-&gt;view-&gt;VARNA</li>
98                                         <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
99                                                 alignment</li>
100                                         <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
101                                         <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
102                                         <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation selects
103                                                 only first column</li>
104                                         <li>Redundancy removal doesn&#39;t result in unlinked leaves
105                                                 shown in tree</li>
106                                         <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
107                                                 properly</li>
108                                         <li>Hide sequence doesn&#39;t hide associated annotation</li>
109                                         <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on screen
110                                                 and buttons not visible</li>
111                                         <li>author list isn't updated if already written to jalview
112                                                 properties</li>
113                                         <li>Popup menu won&#39;t open after retrieving sequence from
114                                                 database</li>
115                                         <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn&#39;t open</li>
116                                         <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a browser
117                                                 search window</li>
118                                         <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu in
119                                                 feature settings dialog</li>
120                                         <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview desktop</li>
121                                         <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn&#39;t pass
122                                                 validation</li>
123                                         <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to fit on
124                                                 screen</li>
125                                         <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by tooltip</li>
126                                         <li>JABAWS preset submenus don&#39;t contain newly defined
127                                                 user preset</li>
128                                         <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched with
129                                                 invalid input</li>
130                                         <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on Java 8</li>
131                                         <li>
132                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
133                                                 &#39;Superpose with&#39; submenu not shown when new view created
134                                         </li>
135
136                                 </ul> <!--  <em>Applet</em>
137                                 <ul>
138                                 </ul> <em>General</em>
139                                 <ul> 
140                                 </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
141                                 <ul>
142                                         <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on memory
143                                                 allocation</li>
144                                         <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
145                                                 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
146                                         <li>
147                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
148                                                 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java 1.7_055 is
149                                                 available
150                                         </li>
151                                 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
152                                 <ul>
153                                         <li>
154                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
155                                                 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling alignment
156                                                 to right
157                                         </li>
158                                         <li>
159                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
160                                                 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval with
161                                                 large number of ID
162                                         </li>
163                                         <li>
164                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
165                                                 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence start/end
166                                         </li>
167                                         <li>
168                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
169                                                 rna structure consensus doesn&#39;t update when secondary
170                                                 structure tracks are rearranged
171                                         </li>
172                                         <li>
173                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
174                                                 invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not highlight
175                                                 position of invalid base pairs
176                                         </li>
177                                         <li>
178                                                 <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
179                                                 out of memory errors are not raised when saving jalview project
180                                                 from alignment window file menu
181                                         </li>
182                                         <li>
183                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
184                                                 Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn&#39;t propagate to
185                                                 structures
186                                         </li>
187                                         <li>
188                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
189                                                 colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created annotation
190                                                 added to alignment
191                                         </li>
192                                         <li>
193                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
194                                                 Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
195                                         </li>
196                                 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
197                                 <ul>
198                                         <li>
199                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
200                                                 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
201                                         </li>
202                                         <li>
203                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
204                                                 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
205                                         </li>
206
207                                         <li>Sort by annotation score doesn&#39;t reverse order when
208                                                 selected</li>
209                                 </ul>
210                         </td>
211                 </tr>
212                 <tr>
213                         <td><div align="center">
214                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
215                                 </div></td>
216                         <td>
217                                 <!--  New features --> <!--  For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
218                                 <em>General</em>
219                                 <ul>
220                                         <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually called
221                                                 i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
222                                         <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
223                                                 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
224                                         <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
225                                                 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
226                                         <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution percentages
227                                                 shown in logo tooltip.</li>
228                                         <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
229                                                 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
230                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
231                                 <ul>
232                                         <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure prediction
233                                                 VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
234                                         <li>Select columns containing particular features from Feature
235                                                 Settings dialog</li>
236                                         <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
237                                                 sequences</li>
238                                         <li>Update Jalview project format:
239                                                 <ul>
240               <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
241                                                         <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to store
242                                                                 secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
243                                                         <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
244                                                                 colouring</li>
245                                                 </ul>
246                                         </li>
247                                         <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
248                                                 (PAM250)</li>
249                                         <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of flanking
250                                                 regions for an alignment</li>
251                                 </ul>
252                         </td>
253                         <td>
254                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
255                                 <ul>
256                                         <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
257                                                 running after job is cancelled</li>
258                                         <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
259                                                 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
260                                         <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take float
261                                                 values</li>
262                                         <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't have
263                                                 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
264                                         <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
265                                                 annotation shading not saved in jalview project</li>
266                                         <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded Jalview</li>
267                                         <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart</li>
268                                         <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
269                                         <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
270                                         <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
271                                                 alignment onto desktop</li>
272                                         <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
273                                                 'extract scores' function</li>
274                                         <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
275                                                 alignment window</li>
276                                         <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after performing
277                                                 IUPred disorder prediction</li>
278                                         <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
279                                                 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
280                                         <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
281                                                 nothing matches query</li>
282                                         <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by feature
283                                                 with lots of groups<!--  possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
284                                         </li>
285                                         <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment don't
286                                                 overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
287                                         </li>
288                                         <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in Jalview's
289                                                 menu</li>
290                                         <li>JAVAWS version of jalview fails to launch with 'invalid
291                                                 literal/length code'</li>
292                                         <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied to
293                                                 alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
294             <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default colourscheme</li>
295
296                                 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
297                                 <ul>
298                                         <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is not a
299                                                 group</li>
300                                         <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes don't
301                                                 affect groups</li>
302                                                 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid colourscheme name</li>
303                                                 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
304                                                 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and embedded windows</li>
305                                 </ul> <em>Other</em>
306                                 <ul>
307                                         <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a single
308                                                 sequence were not calculated</li>
309                                         <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
310                                                 annotation and junk sequences</li>
311                                         <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
312                                                 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
313                                         <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option doesn't
314                                                 affect background (2.8.0b1)
315                                         <li></li>
316                                         <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
317                                         <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
318                                                 trailing gaps</li>
319                                         <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not registered
320                                                 correctly on import</li>
321                                         <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for certain
322                                                 alignments</li>
323                                         <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an existing
324                                                 annotation based 'use original colours' colourscheme loses
325                                                 original colours setting</li>
326                                 </ul>
327                         </td>
328                 </tr>
329                 <tr>
330         <td><div align="center">
331         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br/><em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
332         </div>
333         </td>
334       <td>
335         <ul>
336           <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
337             Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
338             <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
339             open source project).
340           </li>
341           <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by Uniprot and EBI-search
342           </li>
343           <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
344           <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
345           <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
346             graph thresholds</li>
347           <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
348             ambiguity codes</li>
349           <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
350             selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
351             works</li>
352           <li>Groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
353         </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
354         <ul>
355           <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
356           <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
357             GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
358           <li>Support &#39;&#39; style escaping of quotes in Newick
359             files</li>
360           <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
361           <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
362             link but no description</li>
363           <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
364             database fetcher GUI</li>
365           <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
366             Jalview</li>
367           <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
368         </ul>
369       </td>
370       <td>
371         <ul>
372           <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
373             displayed</li>
374           <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
375             secondary structure annotation line</li>
376           <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
377             fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
378           <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
379             identical IDs</li>
380           <li>View all structures does not always superpose
381             structures</li>
382           <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
383             reflect user or preset settings</li>
384           <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
385             presets or adjustable parameters</li>
386           <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn&#39;t
387             discover PDB xRefs</li>
388           <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
389             features with DAS</li>
390           <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn&#39;t coloured
391             when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
392           <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
393             residue follows a gap</li>
394           <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
395             Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
396           <li>&#39;Right click to add annotations&#39; message
397             shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
398           <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
399             annotation already exists on alignment</li>
400           <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
401             initialisation completes</li>
402           <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
403             alignment window display</li>
404           <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
405           <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
406             to annotation file</li>
407           <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
408             groups created</li>
409           <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
410             several &#39;combine&#39; statements in annotation file</li>
411           <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
412             exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
413           <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn&#39;t submit
414             correct partitions for input data</li>
415           <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
416           <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
417           <li>--headless flag isn&#39;t understood</li>
418           <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
419             mode</li>
420           <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
421             changes one row&#39;s threshold</li>            
422           <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
423             doesn&#39;t open</li>
424                                         <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
425                                                 quality histograms</li>
426                                 </ul>
427       </td>
428     </tr>
429   <tr>
430    <td><div align="center">
431      <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
432     </div></td>
433    <td><em>Application</em>
434     <ul><li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
435      conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
436     <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services preferences
437    </li>
438     <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in
439      Jalview alignment window</li>
440     <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain
441      lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
442     <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA
443      and ambiguity codes</li>
444
445     <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
446     <li>Support fetching and database reference look up against
447      multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')</li>
448     <li>Jalview project improvements
449      <ul>
450       <li>Store and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for
451        annotation</li>
452       <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
453        alignment</li>
454       <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview
455        project</li>
456
457      </ul>
458    </li>
459     <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
460     <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running</li>
461     <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
462     <li>visual indication that web service results are still being
463      retrieved from server</li>
464     <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview starts up
465      for first time</li>
466     <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
467      services</li>
468     <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client
469      library</li>
470     <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
471      InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
472     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
473     <ul>
474      <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
475       visualization applet example</li>
476     </ul> <em>General</em>
477     <ul>
478      <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
479      <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
480       defaults</li>
481      <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
482       calculation</li>
483      <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
484       matrices
485      <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported in
486       HTML</li>
487      <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary structure
488       contacts</li>
489      <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
490      <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
491      <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure information
492       in Stockholm files</li>
493      <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation information
494       presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
495      <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA
496       alignment files</li>
497      <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
498       alignment</li>
499      <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; per sequence option to
500       shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
501       annotation</li>
502      <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
503     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
504     <ul>
505      <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
506      <li>New Website!</li>
507     </ul></td>
508    <td><em>Application</em>
509     <ul>
510      <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
511       wsdbfetch REST service</li>
512      <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
513      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
514      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
515       execution in full once it is complete</li>
516      <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
517       uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
518      <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
519      <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
520      <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
521       submitted for prediction</li>
522      <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
523       desktop window</li>
524      <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
525       alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
526      <li>Structure view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
527      </li>
528      <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
529       structure view</li>
530      <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
531       escaped in a platform independent way</li>
532      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using
533       proxy</li>
534      <li>Tree calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more
535       sequences selected&#39; when selection is empty</li>
536      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure
537       when java web start temporary file caching is disabled</li>
538      <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in
539       sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
540      <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments cause
541       progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
542      <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS
543       sources in sequence fetcher</li>
544      <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog
545       is shown</li>
546      <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
547      <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
548      <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
549      <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on
550       OSX Mountain Lion</li>
551      <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when sequences
552       with alignment annotation are pasted into the alignment</li>
553      <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated when
554       loaded from Jalview project</li>
555      <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
556      <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled
557       or job failed due to invalid input</li>
558      <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated
559       with all views</li>
560      <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
561       annotation rows to new window</li>
562     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
563     <ul>
564      <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they
565       are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
566      <li>loading features via javascript API automatically enables
567       feature display</li>
568      <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn&#39;t work</li>
569     </ul> <em>General</em>
570     <ul>
571      <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
572      <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected and
573       then deselected</li>
574      <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
575      <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
576       coloured with clustalx</li>
577      <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
578       exceptions and redraw errors</li>
579      <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured
580       view</li>
581      <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line colour</li>
582      <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted for
583       lots of labels</li>
584     </ul>
585   </tr>
586   <tr>
587    <td>
588     <div align="center">
589      <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
590     </div>
591    </td>
592    <td><em>Application</em>
593     <ul>
594      <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
595      <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
596      <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
597       specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
598       colours/correspondences from</li>
599      <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
600      <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations between
601       many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
602      <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
603      <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
604       in project file</li>
605      <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
606       preserved in Jalview project file</li>
607      <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
608       using Desktop window menu</li>
609      <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
610       being processed</li>
611      <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
612      <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
613       preferences</li>
614      <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
615       alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
616       IDs</li>
617      <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
618      <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
619       in same window</li>
620      <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
621      <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
622       analysis function in its own submenu</li>
623     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
624     <ul>
625      <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
626      <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
627      <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
628      <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
629      <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
630      <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
631       annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
632      <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
633      <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
634       parameters are treated as such</li>
635      <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
636       <ul>
637        <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
638        <li>Javascript callbacks for
639         <ul>
640          <li>Applet initialisation</li>
641          <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
642         </ul>
643        </li>
644        <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
645        <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
646        <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
647         between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
648        <li>sortBy method</li>
649        <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
650         documentation</li>
651        <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
652         javascript message exchange</li>
653       </ul>
654     </ul> <em>General</em>
655     <ul>
656      <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
657       multiple alignments</li>
658      <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
659      <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
660       www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
661      <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
662      <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
663       other flat files</li>
664      <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
665       html tags</li>
666     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
667     <ul>
668      <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
669      </li>
670      <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
671       web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
672      <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
673      <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
674       archive</li>
675      <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
676      <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
677     </ul></td>
678    <td><em>Application</em>
679     <ul>
680      <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
681       built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
682      <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
683       valid filename/format</li>
684      <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
685      <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
686      <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
687       sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
688      <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
689       matches sequence IDs</li>
690      <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
691      <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
692       cannot be loaded</li>
693      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
694      <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
695       sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
696       associated sequence</li>
697      <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
698       preserved when project is loaded</li>
699      <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
700       in Jalview project</li>
701      <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a Jalview
702       project</li>
703      <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
704      <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
705       conservation</li>
706      <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
707       created on new view</li>
708      <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
709       hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
710      <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
711       row is hidden then shown</li>
712      <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in
713       pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
714      <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
715      </li>
716      <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
717       services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
718      <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
719      <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
720       name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
721      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
722       execution in full once it is complete</li>
723     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
724     <ul>
725      <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
726       rows are displayed</li>
727      <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
728       codebase</li>
729      <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
730       sequences</li>
731      <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
732      <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
733      <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
734       javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
735       parameter</li>
736      <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
737       alignment with no existing selection</li>
738      <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
739       applet&#39;s codebase</li>
740      <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
741       wraps around to first result</li>
742      <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
743       Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
744      <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
745       sent from Jmol in applet</li>
746      <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
747       fatally hang browser</li>
748     </ul> <em>General</em>
749     <ul>
750      <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
751       with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
752      <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
753       hidden columns</li>
754      <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
755       off by 1</li>
756      <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
757       import PDB like structure files</li>
758      <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
759       user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
760      <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
761      <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
762       sequence position</li>
763      <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
764      <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
765       nucleotide chains correctly</li>
766      <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
767       in alignment</li>
768      <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
769       parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
770      <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
771      </li>
772      <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
773      <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
774       associated with their pdb files</li>
775     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
776     <ul>
777      <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
778       tool</li>
779     </ul></td>
780   </tr>
781   <tr>
782                         <td>
783                                 <div align="center">
784                                         <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a>
785                                         </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
786                                 </div></td>
787                         <td><em>Application</em>
788                                 <ul>
789                                         <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot contact
790                                                 web services</li>
791                                         <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in service
792                                                 job window</li>
793                                         <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
794                                 </ul></td>
795                         <td>
796                                 <ul>
797                                         <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a pir
798                                                 file emitted by Jalview</li>
799                                         <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new alignment
800                                                 view created from cut'n'paste</li>
801                                         <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
802                                                 parsing PDB files</li>
803                                         <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows occasionally
804                                                 become blank for all new windows</li>
805                                         <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences in
806                                                 wrapped view mode</li>
807                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
808                                 <ul>
809                                         <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu usage
810                                                 to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
811                                         <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
812                                                 parameter names</li>
813                                         <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server is
814                                                 down</li>
815                                 </ul></td>
816                 </tr>
817                 <tr>
818                 <td>
819                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br>
820                 <em>26/9/2010</em></div>
821                 </td>
822                 <td><em>Application</em>
823                 <ul>
824                         <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
825                         <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices (JABAWS)</li>
826                         <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
827                         <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined preferences</li>
828                         <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
829                         <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence alignment</li>
830                         <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer</li>
831                 </ul>
832                 <em>Applet</em>
833                 <ul>
834                         <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the link out
835                         mechanism</li>
836                 </ul>
837                 <em>Other</em>
838                 <ul>
839                         <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol series
840                         12</li>
841                         <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now require Java
842                         1.5</li>
843                         <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF sequence
844                         annotation files</li>
845                         <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file type
846                         colour specification</li>
847                         <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a script
848                         to check if it being run in an interactive session or in a batch
849                         operation from the Jalview command line</li>
850                 </ul>
851                 </td>
852                 <td>
853                 <ul>
854                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
855                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
856                 </ul>
857
858                 <em>Application</em>
859                 <ul>
860                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
861                         selected Regions menu item</li>
862                         <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is part
863                         of a valid accession ID</li>
864                         <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher runs out
865                         of memory</li>
866                         <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca analysis
867                         results</li>
868                         <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5
869                         update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
870                         <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
871                 </ul>
872                 <em>Applet</em>
873                 <ul>
874                         <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
875                         ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are defined.</li>
876                 </ul>
877                 </td>
878         </tr>
879         <tr>
880                 <td>
881                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br>
882                 <em>14/6/2010</em></div>
883                 </td>
884                 <td></td>
885                 <td>
886                 <ul>
887                         <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long sequence IDs
888                         </li>
889                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
890                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
891                         <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not import
892                         correctly</li>
893                         <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a number
894                         of columns are hidden</li>
895                         <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
896                         add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are present</li>
897                         <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats, and
898                         parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
899                         <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage of all
900                         symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
901
902                 </ul>
903                 <em>Applet</em>
904                 <ul>
905                         <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
906                         hidden/removed</li>
907                 </ul>
908                 <em>Application</em>
909                 <ul>
910                         <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new alignment
911                         opened where annotation panel is visible but no annotations are
912                         present on alignment</li>
913                         <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is incorrectly
914                         displayed in new alignment window</li>
915                         <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is flooded
916                         (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
917                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
918                         selected Rregions menu item.</li>
919                         <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry 'Un' or
920                         'Non'conserved</li>
921                         <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by multiple
922                         distinct alignments</li>
923                         <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
924                         changed</li>
925                         <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences does
926                         not propagate to associated trees</li>
927                         <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
928                         <ul>
929                                 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop window
930                                 background</li>
931                                 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application name set
932                                 correctly</li>
933                                 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the save
934                                 feature colourscheme button</li>
935                         </ul>
936                         </li>
937                 </ul>
938                 </td>
939         </tr>
940         <tr>
941
942                 <td>
943                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br>
944                 <em>30/4/2010</em></div>
945                 </td>
946                 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
947                 <ul>
948                         <li>URL links generated from description line for
949                         regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
950                         <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu</li>
951                         <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures</li>
952                         <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the
953                         currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
954                         <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average
955                         score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
956                         <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
957                         <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of selected
958                         subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
959                         <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to hide
960                         everything but the currently selected region.</li>
961                         <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
962                 </ul>
963                 <em>Application</em>
964                 <ul>
965                         <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
966                         retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
967                         <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
968                         or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
969                         <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as database
970                         references and protein_name is parsed as description line (BioSapiens
971                         terms).</li>
972                         <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
973                         references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
974                         <!--                    <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
975                         in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
976                         <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and conservation
977                         plots</li>
978                         <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and
979                         visualized as sequence logos</li>
980                         <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within
981                         each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet --></li>
982                         <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
983                         new tree is opened.</li>
984                         <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
985                         <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving between
986                         different screens.</li>
987                         <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and consensus
988                         annotation</li>
989                         <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to <a
990                                 href="webServices/index.html#envision2">Envision2</a> Workflows</li>
991                         <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
992                         <ul>
993                                 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive used to
994                                 preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
995                                 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command
996                                 line</li>
997                                 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
998                                 VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
999                                 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1000                         </ul>
1001                         </li>
1002                 </ul>
1003                 <em>Applet</em>
1004                 <ul>
1005                         <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1006                         <li>New Parameters
1007                         <ul>
1008                                 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the associated
1009                                 alignment view by the tree when a new tree is opened.</li>
1010                                 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide branch
1011                                 bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1012                                 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide branch
1013                                 lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1014                                 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1015                                 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree view</li>
1016                                 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) - increase the
1017                                 height or width of a cell in the alignment grid relative to the
1018                                 current font size.</li>
1019                         </ul>
1020                         </li>
1021                         <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
1022                 </ul>
1023                 <em>Other</em>
1024                 <ul>
1025                         <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1026                         specification of feature scores</li>
1027                         <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1028                         associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1029                         properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1030                         <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1031                         colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile visualization
1032                         settings.</li>
1033                 </td>
1034                 <td>
1035                 <ul>
1036                         <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather
1037                         than description</li>
1038                         <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence feature
1039                         and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature visibility in
1040                         tooltip).</li>
1041                         <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1042                         <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1043                         documentation.</li>
1044                         <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in
1045                         peptide product</li>
1046                         <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence
1047                         ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper
1048                         case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1049                         <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character
1050                         column annotation labels</li>
1051                         <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with
1052                         documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and
1053                         re-imported)</li>
1054                         <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name</li>
1055                         <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as
1056                         subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.</li>
1057                         <li>Application:
1058                         <ul>
1059                                 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
1060                                 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text
1061                                 excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1062                                 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled when
1063                                 fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1064                                 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1065                                 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
1066                                 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1067                                 sources</li>
1068                                 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes
1069                                 before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1070                                 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for first
1071                                 time.</li>
1072                                 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1073                                 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1074                                 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered from Jalview
1075                                 projects.</li>
1076                         </ul>
1077                         </li>
1078                 </ul>
1079                 </td>
1080
1081         </tr>
1082         <tr>
1083                 <td>
1084                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
1085                 28/10/2009</div>
1086                 </td>
1087                 <td>
1088                 <ul>
1089                         <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
1090                         <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1091                 </ul>
1092                 </td>
1093                 <td>
1094                 <ul>
1095                         <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
1096                         <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond length
1097                         of sequence.</li>
1098                         <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1099                         <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all
1100                         sequences with a given id</li>
1101                         <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID
1102                         string searches</li>
1103                         <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to
1104                         fail with exception</li>
1105                 </ul>
1106                 <em>Application Issues</em>
1107                 <ul>
1108                         <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1109                         <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1110                         sources</li>
1111                 </ul>
1112                 <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1113                 <ul>
1114                         <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with
1115                         installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1116                         <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version
1117                         (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1118                 </ul>
1119                 </td>
1120         </tr>
1121         <tr>
1122                 <td>
1123
1124                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
1125                 27/8/2008</div>
1126                 </td>
1127                 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1128                 <ul>
1129                         <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
1130                         and protein products</li>
1131                         <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue
1132                         mapping to codon position</li>
1133                         <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and
1134                         'clear' button</li>
1135                         <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
1136                         <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric
1137                         data in description line</li>
1138                         <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1139                         <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of
1140                         sequence</li>
1141                 </ul>
1142                 <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1143                 <ul>
1144                         <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1145                         <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1146                         available yet)</li>
1147                         <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
1148                         <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as
1149                         well as sequence ID</li>
1150                         <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1151                 </ul>
1152                 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1153                 <ul>
1154                         <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
1155                         </li>
1156                         <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
1157                         all fetchable databases</li>
1158                         <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence
1159                         command</li>
1160                 </ul>
1161                 <em>Import and Export</em>
1162                 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1163                 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
1164                 products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1165                 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
1166                 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1167                 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1168                 </ul>
1169                 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1170                 <ul>
1171                         <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1172                         <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
1173                         (experimental)</li>
1174                         <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1175                         <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1176                 </ul>
1177                 <em>Application command line</em>
1178                 <ul>
1179                         <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
1180                         applet)</li>
1181                         <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of DAS
1182                         servers to query for alignment features</li>
1183                         <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that are
1184                         also automatically queried for features</li>
1185                         <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy script
1186                         after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1187                 </ul>
1188                 <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1189                 <ul>
1190                         <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1191                         application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
1192                 </ul>
1193                 <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1194                 <ul>
1195                         <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1196                         <li>debug parameter</li>
1197                         <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1198                 </ul>
1199                 <em>Applet API methods</em>
1200                 <ul>
1201                         <li>newView public method</li>
1202                         <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1203                         <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1204                         <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1205                 </ul>
1206                 <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1207                 <ul>
1208                         <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1209                         <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
1210                         release.</li>
1211                         <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1212                         property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1213                         <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1214                         <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1215                         <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1216                         jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1217                         <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development
1218                         version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>
1219                 </ul>
1220
1221                 </td>
1222                 <td>
1223                 <ul>
1224                         <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
1225                         certain formats)</li>
1226                         <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
1227                         editing</li>
1228                         <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1229                         <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1230                         <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1231                         <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1232                         comments</li>
1233                         <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1234                         filenames containing a ':'</li>
1235                         <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
1236                         sequence features</li>
1237                         <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1238                         references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1239                         <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
1240                         causes cascading exceptions</li>
1241                         <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1242                         <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
1243                         parsing fails.</li>
1244                         <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1245                         <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a
1246                         valid output format</li>
1247                         <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
1248                         <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1249                         <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
1250                         <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
1251                         is edited</li>
1252                         <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
1253                         generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1254                         <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
1255                         <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import
1256                         fixed for PFAM records</li>
1257                         <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window
1258                         list</li>
1259                         <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
1260                         read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1261                         <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly</li>
1262                         <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
1263                         for representatives in Applet</li>
1264                         <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
1265                         <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
1266                         <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
1267                         null pointer exceptions</li>
1268                         <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
1269                         column of alignment</li>
1270                         <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July
1271                         2008</li>
1272                         <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is
1273                         case-insensitive</li>
1274                         <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all
1275                         sequences with matching IDs</li>
1276                         <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1277                         containing a sub-sequence</li>
1278                         <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1279                         <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to
1280                         different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1281                         <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1282                         <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen
1283                         version check to complete</li>
1284                         <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when
1285                         passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1286                         <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1287                         retrieved from web service</li>
1288                         <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence
1289                         fetcher initialisation</li>
1290                         <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS
1291                         client</li>
1292                         <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
1293                         <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1294                         sequences</li>
1295                 </ul>
1296                 </td>
1297         </tr>
1298         <tr>
1299                 <td>
1300                 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
1301                 9/5/07</div>
1302                 </td>
1303                 <td>
1304                 <ul>
1305                         <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1306                         <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1307                         <li>Slide sequences</li>
1308                         <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1309                         <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1310                         <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1311                         <li>Feature ordering</li>
1312                         <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1313                         <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1314                         <li>Sort by scores</li>
1315                         <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1316                 </ul>
1317                 </td>
1318                 <td>
1319                 <ul>
1320                         <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1321                         <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1322                         <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1323                         <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1324                         <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1325                         <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1326                         <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1327                         <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1328                         <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1329                         <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1330                         <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1331                 </ul>
1332                 </td>
1333
1334         </tr>
1335         <tr>
1336                 <td>
1337                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
1338                 12/2/07</div>
1339                 </td>
1340                 <td>
1341                 <ul>
1342                         <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1343                         <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
1344                         via textbox
1345                         <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
1346                         &amp; description
1347                         <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
1348                         <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
1349                         be defined
1350                         <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
1351                         in preferences
1352                         <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1353                         sequences
1354                 </ul>
1355                 </td>
1356                 <td>
1357                 <ul>
1358                         <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
1359                         <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1360                         <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1361                 </ul>
1362                 </td>
1363         </tr>
1364         <tr>
1365                 <td>
1366                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
1367                 27/11/06</div>
1368                 </td>
1369                 <td>
1370                 <ul>
1371                         <li>Multiple views on alignment
1372                         <li>Sequence feature editing
1373                         <li>&quot;Reload&quot; alignment
1374                         <li>&quot;Save&quot; to current filename
1375                         <li>Background dependent text colour
1376                         <li>Right align sequence ids
1377                         <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1378                         <li>Format Menu
1379                         <li>Select Menu
1380                         <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1381                         <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1382                         <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1383                         <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1384                         <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1385                         <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1386                 </ul>
1387                 </td>
1388                 <td>
1389                 <ul>
1390                         <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1391                         <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1392                         calculations
1393                         <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
1394                         <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
1395                         alignment)
1396                         <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1397                         <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
1398                         correctly
1399                         <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1400                         <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
1401                         results
1402                         <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by &#8739;
1403                         <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1404                         <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1405                         <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1406                 </ul>
1407                 </td>
1408         </tr>
1409         <tr>
1410                 <td>
1411                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
1412                 12/9/06</div>
1413                 </td>
1414                 <td>
1415                 <ul>
1416                         <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1417                 </ul>
1418                 </td>
1419                 <td>
1420                 <ul>
1421                         <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
1422                         id panel has been resized</li>
1423                         <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
1424                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
1425                         file are relative to sequence position</li>
1426                         <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1427                 </ul>
1428                 </td>
1429         </tr>
1430         <tr>
1431                 <td>
1432                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
1433                 22/8/06</div>
1434                 </td>
1435                 <td>
1436                 <ul>
1437                         <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1438                         <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1439                         <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1440                         <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1441                         <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1442                         <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
1443                         <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1444                         <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1445                         <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1446                         <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
1447                         <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1448                         <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter &quot;sequence<em>x</em>&quot;</li>
1449                 </ul>
1450                 </td>
1451                 <td>
1452                 <ul>
1453                         <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1454                         <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1455                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1456                 </ul>
1457                 </td>
1458         </tr>
1459         <tr>
1460                 <td>
1461                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
1462                 2/5/06</div>
1463                 </td>
1464                 <td>
1465                 <ul>
1466                         <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1467                         <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1468                         <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
1469                         the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1470                 </ul>
1471                 </td>
1472                 <td>
1473                 <ul>
1474                         <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1475                 </ul>
1476                 </td>
1477         </tr>
1478         <tr>
1479                 <td>
1480                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
1481                 18/4/06</div>
1482                 </td>
1483                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1484                 <td>
1485                 <ul>
1486                         <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1487                         <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
1488                 </ul>
1489                 </td>
1490         </tr>
1491         <tr>
1492                 <td>
1493                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
1494                 10/4/06</div>
1495                 </td>
1496                 <td>
1497                 <ul>
1498                         <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1499                         <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1500                         <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1501                         <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
1502                         <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1503                         <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1504                         <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1505                         <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1506                 </ul>
1507                 </td>
1508                 <td>
1509                 <ul>
1510                         <li>Drag &amp; Drop fixed on Linux</li>
1511                         <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
1512                         descriptions saved.</li>
1513                 </ul>
1514                 </td>
1515         </tr>
1516         <tr>
1517                 <td>
1518                 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
1519                 12/12/05</div>
1520                 </td>
1521                 <td>
1522                 <ul>
1523                         <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
1524                         <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
1525                         <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
1526                         file output</li>
1527                         <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
1528                         <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
1529                         HTML form input</li>
1530                 </ul>
1531                 </td>
1532                 <td>
1533                 <ul>
1534                         <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
1535                         <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
1536                         <li>File IO bugs</li>
1537                 </ul>
1538                 </td>
1539         </tr>
1540         <tr>
1541                 <td>
1542                 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
1543                 28/9/05</div>
1544                 </td>
1545                 <td>
1546                 <ul>
1547                         <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
1548                         <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
1549                 </ul>
1550                 </td>
1551                 <td>
1552                 <ul>
1553                         <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
1554                         <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
1555                 </ul>
1556                 </td>
1557         </tr>
1558         <tr>
1559                 <td height="63">
1560                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
1561                 15/9/05</div>
1562                 </td>
1563                 <td>
1564                 <ul>
1565                         <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
1566                         <li>Jar files are executable</li>
1567                         <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
1568                 </ul>
1569                 </td>
1570                 <td>
1571                 <ul>
1572                         <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
1573                         <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
1574                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1575                 </ul>
1576                 </td>
1577         </tr>
1578         <tr>
1579                 <td>
1580                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
1581                 30/8/05</div>
1582                 </td>
1583                 <td>
1584                 <ul>
1585                         <li>Edit and annotate in &quot;Wrapped&quot; view</li>
1586                 </ul>
1587                 </td>
1588                 <td>
1589                 <ul>
1590                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1591                 </ul>
1592                 </td>
1593         </tr>
1594         <tr>
1595                 <td>
1596                 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
1597                 24/8/05</div>
1598                 </td>
1599                 <td>
1600                 <ul>
1601                         <li>Hold down mouse wheel &amp; scroll to change font size</li>
1602                 </ul>
1603                 </td>
1604                 <td>
1605                 <ul>
1606                         <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
1607                         <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
1608                 </ul>
1609                 </td>
1610         </tr>
1611         <tr>
1612                 <td>
1613                 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
1614                 18/8/05</div>
1615                 </td>
1616                 <td>
1617                 <ul>
1618                         <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
1619                         <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
1620                         <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
1621                         Colour Menu</li>
1622                         <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
1623                         <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
1624                         <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
1625                         <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
1626                 </ul>
1627                 </td>
1628                 <td>
1629                 <ul>
1630                         <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
1631                 </ul>
1632                 </td>
1633         </tr>
1634         <tr>
1635                 <td>
1636                 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
1637                 18/7/05</div>
1638                 </td>
1639                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1640                 <td>
1641                 <ul>
1642                         <li>Copy &amp; Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
1643                         order.</li>
1644                 </ul>
1645                 </td>
1646         </tr>
1647         <tr>
1648                 <td>
1649                 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
1650                 12/7/05</div>
1651                 </td>
1652                 <td>
1653                 <ul>
1654                         <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
1655                         <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
1656                         <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
1657                         annotations.</li>
1658                         <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
1659                         <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
1660                         launch of Jalview.</li>
1661                 </ul>
1662                 </td>
1663                 <td>
1664                 <ul>
1665                         <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
1666                         <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
1667                         <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
1668                         <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
1669                         <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
1670                         will initiate a search.<br>
1671                         </li>
1672                 </ul>
1673                 </td>
1674         </tr>
1675         <tr>
1676                 <td>
1677                 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
1678                 20/6/05</div>
1679                 </td>
1680                 <td>
1681                 <ul>
1682                         <li>New codebase</li>
1683                 </ul>
1684                 </td>
1685                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1686         </tr>
1687 </table>
1688 <p>&nbsp;</p>
1689 </body>
1690 </html>