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1 <html>
2 <head>
3 <title>Release History</title>
4 </head>
5 <body>
6 <p><strong>Release History</strong></p>
7 <table border="1">
8         <tr>
9                 <td width="60" nowrap>
10                 <div align="center"><em><strong>Release</strong></em></div>
11                 </td>
12                 <td>
13                 <div align="center"><em><strong>New Features</strong></em></div>
14                 </td>
15                 <td>
16                 <div align="center"><em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em></div>
17                 </td>
18         </tr>
19         <tr>
20         
21                 <td>
22                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4.1</strong><br>
23                 <em>Not Yet Released</em></div>
24                 </td>
25                 <td>
26                 <ul>
27                 <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li> 
28                 <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
29                 <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.
30                 </li>
31                 <li>URL links generated from description line for regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
32                 </li>
33                 <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip on applet
34                 </li>
35                 <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu (applet and application)
36                 </li>
37                 <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the currently highlighted region of an alignment.
38                 </li>
39                 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)
40                 </li>
41                 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)
42                 </li>
43                 <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li>
44                 <li>Order an alignment in order of average feature score or total feature count</li> 
45                 </ul>
46                 </td>
47                 <td>
48                 <ul>
49                 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
50                 <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
51                 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text excludes the start_end suffix (application)</li>
52                 <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file documentation.</li>
53                 <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database (broken in Version 2.4.0)</li>
54                 <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in peptide product</li>
55                 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
56                 <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper case to match case-insensitively.</li>
57                 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data sources</li>
58                 </ul>
59                 </td>
60         
61         </tr>
62                 <tr>
63         <td>
64         <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
65                 2/6/2009</div>
66         </td>
67         <td>
68         <ul><li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
69         </ul>
70         </td>
71         <td>
72                 <ul><li>Fixed race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
73                 <li></li>
74                 </ul>
75         </td>
76         </tr>
77                 <tr>
78             <td>
79               <div align="center"><strong>2.4 bugfixes</strong><br>
80                 12/11/2008</div>
81                 </td>
82             <td>
83             </td>
84             <td>
85             <ul>
86                         <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
87                         <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data sources</li>
88             </ul>
89             </td>
90         </tr>
91         <tr>
92                 <td>
93                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
94                 27/8/2008</div>
95                 </td>
96                 <td>
97                         <em>User Interface</em>
98                         <ul>
99                         <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
100                         and protein products</li>
101                         <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue mapping to codon position</li>
102                         <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and 'clear' button</li>
103                         <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
104                         <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric data in description line</li>
105                         <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
106                         <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of sequence</li>
107                         </ul>
108                         <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
109                         <ul>
110                         <li>JPred3 web service</li>
111                         <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services available yet)</li>
112                         <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
113                         <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as well as sequence ID</li> 
114                         <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
115                         </ul>
116                 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
117                         <ul>
118                         <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
119                         </li>
120                         <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
121                         all fetchable databases</li>
122                         <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence command</li>
123                         </ul>
124                         <em>Import and Export</em>
125                         <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
126                         <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
127                         products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
128                         <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
129                         <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
130                         </ul>
131                 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
132                         <ul>
133                                 <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
134                                 <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
135                                 (experimental)</li>
136                                 <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
137                                 <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
138                         </ul>
139         <em>Application command line</em>
140                         <ul>
141                                 <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
142                                 applet)</li>
143                                 <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of
144                                 DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
145                                 <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that
146                                 are also automatically queried for features</li>
147                                 <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
148                                 script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
149                         </ul>
150         <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>       
151                 <ul>
152                 <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
153                         application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
154                 </ul>
155         <em>Applet Parameters</em>
156                         <ul>
157                                 <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
158                                 <li>debug parameter</li>
159                                 <li>showbutton parameter</li>
160                         </ul>
161         <em>Applet API methods</em>
162                         <ul>
163                                 <li>newView public method</li>
164                                 <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
165                                 <li>Feature display control methods</li>
166                                 <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
167                         </ul>
168         <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
169                 <ul>
170                         <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li> 
171                         <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
172                         release.</li>
173                         <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
174                         property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
175                         <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
176                         <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
177                         <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
178                         jalview.bin.Cache</li>
179             <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>             
180                 </ul>
181                 
182                 </td>
183                 <td>
184                 <ul>
185                         <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
186                         certain formats)</li>
187                         <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
188                         editing</li>
189                         <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
190                         <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
191                         <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
192                         <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
193                         comments</li>
194                         <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
195                         filenames containing a ':'</li>
196                         <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
197                         sequence features</li>
198                         <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
199                         references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
200                         <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
201                         causes cascading exceptions</li>
202                         <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
203                         <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
204                         parsing fails.</li>
205                         <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
206                         <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a valid output format</li>
207                         <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
208                         <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
209                         <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
210                         <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
211                         is edited</li>
212                         <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
213                         generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
214                         <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
215                         <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import fixed for PFAM records
216                         </li>
217                         <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window list</li>
218                         <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
219                         read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
220                         <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly
221                         </li>
222                         <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
223                         for representatives in Applet</li>
224                         <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
225                         <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
226                         <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
227                         null pointer exceptions</li>
228                         <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
229                         column of alignment</li>
230                         <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July 2008</li>
231                         <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is case-insensitive</li>
232                         <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all sequences with matching IDs</li>
233                         <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views containing a sub-sequence</li>
234                         <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
235                         <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>   
236                         <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
237                         <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen version check to complete</li>
238                         <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
239                         <li>display name and local features preserved in results retrieved from web service</li> 
240                         <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
241                         <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS client</li>
242                         <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
243                         <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em> sequences</li>  
244                 </ul>
245                 </td>
246         </tr>
247         <tr>
248         <td>
249                 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
250                 9/5/07</div>
251                 </td>
252                 <td>
253                 <ul>
254                         <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
255                         <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
256                         <li>Slide sequences</li>
257                         <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
258                         <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
259                         <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
260                         <li>Feature ordering</li>
261                         <li>Alignment Properties</li>
262                         <li>Annotation Scores</li>
263                         <li>Sort by scores</li>
264                         <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
265                 </ul>
266                 </td>
267                 <td>
268                 <ul>
269                         <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
270                         <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
271                         <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
272                         <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
273                         <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
274                         <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
275                         <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
276                         <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
277                         <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
278                         <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
279                         <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
280                 </ul>
281                 </td>
282
283         </tr>
284         <tr>
285                 <td>
286                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
287                 12/2/07</div>
288                 </td>
289                 <td>
290                 <ul>
291                         <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
292                         <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
293                         via textbox
294                         <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
295                         &amp; description
296                         <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
297                         <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
298                         be defined
299                         <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
300                         in preferences
301                         <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
302                         sequences
303                 </ul>
304                 </td>
305                 <td>
306                 <ul>
307                         <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
308                         <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
309                         <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
310                 </ul>
311                 </td>
312         </tr>
313         <tr>
314                 <td>
315                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
316                 27/11/06</div>
317                 </td>
318                 <td>
319                 <ul>
320                         <li>Multiple views on alignment
321                         <li>Sequence feature editing
322                         <li>&quot;Reload&quot; alignment
323                         <li>&quot;Save&quot; to current filename
324                         <li>Background dependent text colour
325                         <li>Right align sequence ids
326                         <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
327                         <li>Format Menu
328                         <li>Select Menu
329                         <li>Menu item accelerator keys
330                         <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
331                         <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
332                         <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
333                         <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
334                         <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
335                 </ul>
336                 </td>
337                 <td>
338                 <ul>
339                         <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
340                         <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
341                         calculations
342                         <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
343                         <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
344                         alignment)
345                         <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
346                         <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
347                         correctly
348                         <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
349                         <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
350                         results
351                         <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by &#8739;
352                         <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
353                         <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
354                         <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
355                 </ul>
356                 </td>
357         </tr>
358         <tr>
359                 <td>
360                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
361                 12/9/06</div>
362                 </td>
363                 <td>
364                 <ul>
365                         <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
366                 </ul>
367                 </td>
368                 <td>
369                 <ul>
370                         <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
371                         id panel has been resized</li>
372                         <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
373                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
374                         file are relative to sequence position</li>
375                         <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
376                 </ul>
377                 </td>
378         </tr>
379         <tr>
380                 <td>
381                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
382                 22/8/06</div>
383                 </td>
384                 <td>
385                 <ul>
386                         <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
387                         <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
388                         <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
389                         <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
390                         <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
391                         <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
392                         <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
393                         <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
394                         <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
395                         <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
396                         <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
397                         <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter &quot;sequence<em>x</em>&quot;</li>
398                 </ul>
399                 </td>
400                 <td>
401                 <ul>
402                         <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
403                         <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
404                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
405                 </ul>
406                 </td>
407         </tr>
408         <tr>
409                 <td>
410                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
411                 2/5/06</div>
412                 </td>
413                 <td>
414                 <ul>
415                         <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
416                         <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
417                         <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
418                         the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
419                 </ul>
420                 </td>
421                 <td>
422                 <ul>
423                         <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
424                 </ul>
425                 </td>
426         </tr>
427         <tr>
428                 <td>
429                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
430                 18/4/06</div>
431                 </td>
432                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
433                 <td>
434                 <ul>
435                         <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
436                         <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
437                 </ul>
438                 </td>
439         </tr>
440         <tr>
441                 <td>
442                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
443                 10/4/06</div>
444                 </td>
445                 <td>
446                 <ul>
447                         <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
448                         <li>Keyboard editing</li>
449                         <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
450                         <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
451                         <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
452                         <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
453                         <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
454                         <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
455                 </ul>
456                 </td>
457                 <td>
458                 <ul>
459                         <li>Drag &amp; Drop fixed on Linux</li>
460                         <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
461                         descriptions saved.</li>
462                 </ul>
463                 </td>
464         </tr>
465         <tr>
466                 <td>
467                 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
468                 12/12/05</div>
469                 </td>
470                 <td>
471                 <ul>
472                         <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
473                         <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
474                         <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
475                         file output</li>
476                         <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
477                         <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
478                         HTML form input</li>
479                 </ul>
480                 </td>
481                 <td>
482                 <ul>
483                         <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
484                         <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
485                         <li>File IO bugs</li>
486                 </ul>
487                 </td>
488         </tr>
489         <tr>
490                 <td>
491                 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
492                 28/9/05</div>
493                 </td>
494                 <td>
495                 <ul>
496                         <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
497                         <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
498                 </ul>
499                 </td>
500                 <td>
501                 <ul>
502                         <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
503                         <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
504                 </ul>
505                 </td>
506         </tr>
507         <tr>
508                 <td height="63">
509                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
510                 15/9/05</div>
511                 </td>
512                 <td>
513                 <ul>
514                         <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
515                         <li>Jar files are executable</li>
516                         <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
517                 </ul>
518                 </td>
519                 <td>
520                 <ul>
521                         <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
522                         <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
523                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
524                 </ul>
525                 </td>
526         </tr>
527         <tr>
528                 <td>
529                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
530                 30/8/05</div>
531                 </td>
532                 <td>
533                 <ul>
534                         <li>Edit and annotate in &quot;Wrapped&quot; view</li>
535                 </ul>
536                 </td>
537                 <td>
538                 <ul>
539                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
540                 </ul>
541                 </td>
542         </tr>
543         <tr>
544                 <td>
545                 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
546                 24/8/05</div>
547                 </td>
548                 <td>
549                 <ul>
550                         <li>Hold down mouse wheel &amp; scroll to change font size</li>
551                 </ul>
552                 </td>
553                 <td>
554                 <ul>
555                         <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
556                         <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
557                 </ul>
558                 </td>
559         </tr>
560         <tr>
561                 <td>
562                 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
563                 18/8/05</div>
564                 </td>
565                 <td>
566                 <ul>
567                         <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
568                         <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
569                         <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
570                         Colour Menu</li>
571                         <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
572                         <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
573                         <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
574                         <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
575                 </ul>
576                 </td>
577                 <td>
578                 <ul>
579                         <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
580                 </ul>
581                 </td>
582         </tr>
583         <tr>
584                 <td>
585                 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
586                 18/7/05</div>
587                 </td>
588                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
589                 <td>
590                 <ul>
591                         <li>Copy &amp; Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
592                         order.</li>
593                 </ul>
594                 </td>
595         </tr>
596         <tr>
597                 <td>
598                 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
599                 12/7/05</div>
600                 </td>
601                 <td>
602                 <ul>
603                         <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
604                         <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
605                         <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
606                         annotations.</li>
607                         <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
608                         <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
609                         launch of Jalview.</li>
610                 </ul>
611                 </td>
612                 <td>
613                 <ul>
614                         <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
615                         <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
616                         <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
617                         <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
618                         <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
619                         will initiate a search.<br>
620                         </li>
621                 </ul>
622                 </td>
623         </tr>
624         <tr>
625                 <td>
626                 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
627                 20/6/05</div>
628                 </td>
629                 <td>
630                 <ul>
631                         <li>New codebase</li>
632                 </ul>
633                 </td>
634                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
635         </tr>
636 </table>
637 <p>&nbsp;</p>
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