group autoannotation and consensus display, annotation label scale to width, etc.
authorjprocter <Jim Procter>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:49:49 +0000 (17:49 +0000)
committerjprocter <Jim Procter>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:49:49 +0000 (17:49 +0000)
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                <div align="center"><strong>2.4.1</strong><br>
                <em>Not Yet Released</em></div>
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                <td>
                <ul>
-               <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li> 
-               <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
-               <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.
-               </li>
-               <li>URL links generated from description line for regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
-               </li>
-               <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip on applet
-               </li>
-               <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu (applet and application)
-               </li>
-               <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the currently highlighted region of an alignment.
-               </li>
-               <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)
-               </li>
-               <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)
-               </li>
-               <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li>
-               <li>Order an alignment in order of average feature score or total feature count</li> 
+                       <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
+                       retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
+                       <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
+                       or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
+                       <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
+                       references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
+                       <li>Parsing of Dbref and DbxRef feature types as database
+                       references</li>
+                       <li>URL links generated from description line for
+                       regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
+                       <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu</li>
+                       <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures</li>
+                       <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the
+                       currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
+                       <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within each column<!-- todo for applet --></li>
+                       <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
+               </ul>
+               <em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>
+                       <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to
+                       preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
+                       <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command line</li>
+                       <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
+                       VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
+                       <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Application</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
+                       in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li>
+                       <li>Order an alignment in order of average feature score or
+                       total feature count</li>
+                       <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
+                       <li>Group-associated automatic and user-defined alignment
+                       annotation</li>
+                       <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and
+                       visualized as sequence logos</li>
+                       <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
+                       new tree is opened.</li>
+                       <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Applet</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
+                       <li>parameter to enable automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
+                       new tree is opened.</li>
+               <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Other</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
+                       specification of feature scores</li>
+                       <li>
+               </td>
+               <td>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather
+                       than description</li>
+                       <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
+                       <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
+                       documentation.</li>
+                       <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in
+                       peptide product</li>
+                       <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>
+                       <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character column annotation labels</li>
+                       <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name</li>
+                       <li>Applet:
+                       <ul>
+                               <li></li>
+                       </ul>
+                       </li>
+                       <li>Application:
+                       <ul>
+                               <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
+                               <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text
+                               excludes the start_end suffix (application)</li>
+                               <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
+                               <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
+                               <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
+                               sources</li>
+                               <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes
+                               before alignment figures are generated.</li>
+                       </ul>
+                       </li>
                </ul>
                </td>
+
+       </tr>
+       <tr>
+               <td>
+               <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
+               28/10/2009</div>
+               </td>
                <td>
                <ul>
-               <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
-               <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
-               <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text excludes the start_end suffix (application)</li>
-               <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file documentation.</li>
-               <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in peptide product</li>
-               <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
-               <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>
-               <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data sources</li>
+                       <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
+                       <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
                </ul>
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-               <tr>
-       <td>
-       <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
-               28/10/2009</div>
-       </td>
-       <td>
-               <ul><li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
-       <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
-       </ul>
-       </td>
-       <td>
-               <ul><li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
-               <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond length of sequence.</li>
-               <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
-               <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all sequences with a given id</li>
-               <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID string searches</li>               
-               <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to fail with exception</li>         
-               </ul><em>Application Issues</em><ul>
-               <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
-               <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data sources</li>
+               <td>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
+                       <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond length
+                       of sequence.</li>
+                       <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
+                       <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all
+                       sequences with a given id</li>
+                       <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID
+                       string searches</li>
+                       <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to
+                       fail with exception</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Application Issues</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
+                       <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
+                       sources</li>
                </ul>
                <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
                <ul>
-               <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with installAnywhere mechanism)</li>  
-               <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
+                       <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with
+                       installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
+                       <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version
+                       (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
                </ul>
-       </td>
+               </td>
        </tr>
-               <tr>
-           <td>
-               
+       <tr>
+               <td>
+
                <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
                27/8/2008</div>
                </td>
-               <td>
-                       <em>User Interface</em>
-                       <ul>
+               <td><em>User Interface</em>
+               <ul>
                        <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
                        and protein products</li>
-                       <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue mapping to codon position</li>
-                       <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and 'clear' button</li>
+                       <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue
+                       mapping to codon position</li>
+                       <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and
+                       'clear' button</li>
                        <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
-                       <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric data in description line</li>
+                       <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric
+                       data in description line</li>
                        <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
-                       <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of sequence</li>
-                       </ul>
-                       <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
-                       <ul>
+                       <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of
+                       sequence</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
+               <ul>
                        <li>JPred3 web service</li>
-                       <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services available yet)</li>
+                       <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
+                       available yet)</li>
                        <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
-                       <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as well as sequence ID</li> 
+                       <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as
+                       well as sequence ID</li>
                        <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
-                       </ul>
+               </ul>
                <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
-                       <ul>
+               <ul>
                        <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
                        </li>
                        <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
                        all fetchable databases</li>
-                       <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence command</li>
-                       </ul>
-                       <em>Import and Export</em>
-                       <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
-                       <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
-                       products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
-                       <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
-                       <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
-                       </ul>
+                       <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence
+                       command</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Import and Export</em>
+               <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
+               <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
+               products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
+               <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
+               <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
+               triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
+               </ul>
                <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
-                       <ul>
-                               <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
-                               <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
-                               (experimental)</li>
-                               <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
-                               <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
-                       </ul>
-       <em>Application command line</em>
-                       <ul>
-                               <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
-                               applet)</li>
-                               <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of
-                               DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
-                               <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that
-                               are also automatically queried for features</li>
-                               <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
-                               script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
-                       </ul>
-       <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>       
                <ul>
-               <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
+                       <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
+                       <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
+                       (experimental)</li>
+                       <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
+                       <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Application command line</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
+                       applet)</li>
+                       <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of DAS
+                       servers to query for alignment features</li>
+                       <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that are
+                       also automatically queried for features</li>
+                       <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy script
+                       after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
                        application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
                </ul>
-       <em>Applet Parameters</em>
-                       <ul>
-                               <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
-                               <li>debug parameter</li>
-                               <li>showbutton parameter</li>
-                       </ul>
-       <em>Applet API methods</em>
-                       <ul>
-                               <li>newView public method</li>
-                               <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
-                               <li>Feature display control methods</li>
-                               <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
-                       </ul>
-       <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
+               <em>Applet Parameters</em>
                <ul>
-                       <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li> 
+                       <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
+                       <li>debug parameter</li>
+                       <li>showbutton parameter</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Applet API methods</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>newView public method</li>
+                       <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
+                       <li>Feature display control methods</li>
+                       <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
                        <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
                        release.</li>
                        <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
                        <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
                        <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
                        jalview.bin.Cache</li>
-           <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>             
+                       <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development
+                       version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>
                </ul>
-               
+
                </td>
                <td>
                <ul>
                        <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
                        parsing fails.</li>
                        <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
-                       <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a valid output format</li>
+                       <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a
+                       valid output format</li>
                        <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
                        <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
                        <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
                        <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
                        generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
                        <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
-                       <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import fixed for PFAM records
-                       </li>
-                       <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window list</li>
+                       <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import
+                       fixed for PFAM records</li>
+                       <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window
+                       list</li>
                        <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
                        read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
                        <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly
                        null pointer exceptions</li>
                        <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
                        column of alignment</li>
-                       <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July 2008</li>
-                       <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is case-insensitive</li>
-                       <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all sequences with matching IDs</li>
-                       <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views containing a sub-sequence</li>
+                       <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July
+                       2008</li>
+                       <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is
+                       case-insensitive</li>
+                       <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all
+                       sequences with matching IDs</li>
+                       <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
+                       containing a sub-sequence</li>
                        <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
-                       <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>   
+                       <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to
+                       different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
                        <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
-                       <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen version check to complete</li>
-                       <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
-                       <li>display name and local features preserved in results retrieved from web service</li> 
-                       <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
-                       <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS client</li>
+                       <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen
+                       version check to complete</li>
+                       <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when
+                       passing them to the launchApp service</li>
+                       <li>display name and local features preserved in results
+                       retrieved from web service</li>
+                       <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence
+                       fetcher initialisation</li>
+                       <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS
+                       client</li>
                        <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
-                       <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em> sequences</li>  
+                       <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
+                       sequences</li>
                </ul>
                </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
-       <td>
+               <td>
                <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
                9/5/07</div>
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