JAL-1645 draft release notes for v2.9...
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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.2.9">2.9</a><br /> <em>9/9/2015</em></strong>
48         </div></td>
49       <td><em>General</em>
50         <ul>
51           <li>Linked visualisation and analysis of DNA and Protein
52             alignments:<ul>
53           <li>Translated cDNA alignments shown as split protein and
54             DNA alignment views</li>
55           <li>Codon consensus annotation for linked protein and
56             cDNA alignment views</li>
57           <li>Add cDNA or Protein product sequences to Protein or
58             cDNA alignments</li>
59           <li>Reconstruct linked cDNA alignment from aligned
60             protein sequences</i>
61             </ul></li>
62
63           <li>Update Jmol to v14.2n</li>
64
65           <li>BioJSON data exchange</li>
66
67           <li>New alignment annotation file statements for
68             reference sequences and marking hidden columns</li>
69
70           <li>Alignments can be sorted by number of RNA helices</li>
71             
72           <li>Assign a reference sequence to highlight
73             variation and consensus analysis</li>
74
75           <li>Select or hide columns according to alignment
76             annotation</li>
77           <li>Find option for locating sequences by
78             description</li>
79
80           <li>Conserved physicochemical properties shown in amino
81             acid conservation row</li>
82
83         </ul> <em>Application</em>
84         <ul>
85           <li>Optional embedding of BioJSON data when exporting
86             alignment figures to HTML</li>
87           <li>New Export Settings dialog to control hidden region export in flat file
88             generation</li>
89           <li>New cDNA/Protein analysis capabilities<ul>
90           <li>Get Cross-References should open a Split Frame view
91             with cDNA/Protein</li>
92           <li>Detect when nucleotide sequences and protein
93             sequences are placed in the same alignment</li>
94           <li>Split cDNA/Protein views are saved in Jalview
95             projects</li>
96           <li>support '*' in amino acid sequences to indicate stop
97             codon</li>
98             </ul></li>
99
100           <li>Use REST API to talk to Chimera</li>
101           <li>Selected regions in Chimera are highlighted in linked Jalview windows</li>
102
103           <li>Calculate UPGMA and NJ trees using sequence feature
104             similarity</li>
105
106           <li>VARNA RNA viewer updated to v3.93</li>
107           <li>VARNA views are saved in Jalview
108             Projects</li>
109           <li>Pseudoknots displayed as Jalview RNA annotation can be shown in VARNA</li>
110
111           <li>changed 'View nucleotide structure' submenu to 'View VARNA 2D Structure'</li>
112           <li>change "View protein structure" menu option to "3D
113             Structure ..."</li>
114
115           <li>Make groups for selection uses marked columns as well
116             as the active selected region</li>
117
118           <li>allow different similarity matrix calculations for
119             tree building and PCA</li>
120
121           <li>Export alignment views for display with the <a
122             href="">BioJS MSAViewer</a></li>
123           <li>Scrollable SVG for HTML export</li>
124
125           <li>Novel data discovery and retrieval mechanism using
126             PDBe Search API</li>
127           <li>Smarter technique for selecting PDB structures to
128             view in Jalview</li>
129
130           <li>JPred4 employed for protein secondary structure
131             predictions</li>
132           <li>Hide Insertions menu option to hide unaligned columns
133             for one or a group of sequences</li>
134           <li>Automatically hide insertions in alignments imported from the JPred4 web server</li>
135         </ul> <em>Applet</em>
136         <ul>
137           <li>Parameter to enable SplitFrame view</li>? check other
138           parameters in applet ?
139           <li>New example demonstrating linked viewing of cDNA and
140             Protein alignments</li>
141           <li>New layout for applet example pages</li>
142         </ul>
143         <em>Development and deployment</em>
144         <li>Java 1.7 minimum requirement for Jalview 2.9</li>
145         <li>Include installation type and git revision in build
146           properties and console log output</li>
147         <li>Github project and web URL for storing BioJsMSA
148           Templates</li>
149         <li>Jalview's unit tests now managed with TestNG</li></td>
150       <td><em>General</em>
151         <ul>
152         </ul> <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
153         <ul>
154           <li>Escape should close any open find dialogs</li>
155           <li>typo in select-by-features status report</li>
156           <li>Consensus RNA secondary secondary structure
157             predictions are not highlighted in amber</li>
158           <li>missing gap character means v2.7 example file appears
159             unaligned REVIEW</li>
160           <li>First switch to RNA Helices colouring doesn't colour
161             associated structure views</li>
162           <li>ID width preference option is greyed out when auto
163             width checkbox not enabled</li>
164           <li>Stopped a warning dialog from being shown when
165             creating user defined colours</li>
166           <li>'View Mapping' in structure viewer shows sequence
167             mappings for just that viewer's sequences</li>
168           <li>Workaround for superposing PDB files containing
169             multiple models in Chimera</li>
170           <li>Report sequence position in status bar when hovering
171             over Jmol structure</li>
172           <li>Cannot output gaps as '.' symbols with Selection ->
173             output to text box</li>
174           <li>Flat file exports of alignments with hidden columns
175             have incorrect sequence start/end</li>
176           <li>'Aligning' a second chain to a Chimera structure from
177             Jalview fails</li>
178           <li>Colour schemes applied to structure viewers don't
179             work for nucleotide</li>
180           <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty or invalid file leads
181             to a grey/invisible alignment window</li>
182           <li>Exported Jpred annotation from a sequence region
183             imports to different position</li>
184           <li>Space at beginning of sequence feature mouseover
185             tooltip on some platforms</li>
186           <li>Chimera viewer 'View | Show Chain' menu is not
187             populated</li>
188           <li>'New View' fails with a Null Pointer Exception if
189             Chimera has been opened</li>
190           <li>Mouseover to Chimera not working</li>
191           <li>Miscellaneous ENA XML feature qualifiers not
192             retrieved</li>
193           <li>NPE in annotation renderer after 'Extract Scores'</li>
194           <li>If two structures in one Chimera window, mouseover of
195             either sequence shows on first structure</li>
196           <li>'Show annotations' options should not make
197             non-positional annotations visible</li>
198           <li>subsequence secondary structure annotation not shown
199             in right place after 'view flanking regions'</li>
200           <li>File Save As type unset when current file format is
201             unknown</li>
202           <li>Native 'Quaqua' dialogs for saving and loading files
203             on OSX</li>
204           <li>Save as '.jar' option removed for saving Jalview
205             projects</li>
206           <li>Colour by Sequence colouring in Chimera more
207             responsive</li>
208           <li>Can disable consensus calculation independently of
209             quality and conservation</li>
210           <li>Cannot 'add reference annotation' for a sequence in
211             several views on same alignment</li>
212           <li>Cannot show linked products for EMBL / ENA records</li>
213           <li>Jalview's tooltip wraps long texts containing no
214             spaces</li>
215         </ul> <em>Applet</em>
216         <li>Jmol to JalviewLite mouseover/link not working</li>
217         <li>JalviewLite can't import sequences with ID descriptions
218           containing angle brackets</li>
219         <ul>
220         </ul> <em>General</em>
221         <ul>
222           <li>Cannot export and reimport RNA secondary structure
223             via jalview annotation file</li>
224           <li>Random helix colour palette for colour by annotation
225             with RNA secondary structure</li>
226           <li>Mouseover to cDNA from STOP residue in protein
227             translation doesn't work.</li>
228           <li>hints when using the select by annotation dialog box</li>
229           <li>Jmol alignment incorrect if PDB file has alternate CA
230             positions</li>
231           <li>FontChooser message dialog appears to hang after
232             choosing 1pt font</li>
233           <li>Peptide secondary structure incorrectly imported from
234             annotation file when annotation display text includes 'e' or
235             'h'</li>
236           <li>Cannot set colour of new feature type whilst creating
237             new feature</li>
238           <li>cDNA translation alignment should not be sequence
239             order dependent</li>
240           <li>'Show unconserved' doesn't work for lower case
241             sequences</li>
242           <li>Nucleotide ambiguity codes involving R not recognised</li>
243         </ul> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
244         <ul>
245
246         </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
247         <ul>
248           <li>Incomplete sequence extracted from PDB entry 3a6s</li>
249           <li>Misleading message appears after trying to delete
250             solid column.</li>
251           <li>Jalview icon not shown in dock after InstallAnywhere
252             version launches</li>
253           <li>Fetching EMBL reference for an RNA sequence results
254             fails with a sequence mismatch</li>
255           <li>Corrupted or unreadable alignment display when
256             scrolling alignment to right</li>
257           <li>ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown when remove
258             empty columns called on alignment with ragged gapped ends</li>
259           <li>auto calculated alignment annotation rows do not get
260             placed above or below non-autocalculated rows</li>
261           <li>Jalview dekstop becomes sluggish at full screen in
262             ultra-high resolution</li>
263         </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
264         <ul>
265           <li>Core PDB parsing code requires Jmol</li>
266           <li>Sequence canvas panel goes white when alignment
267             window is being resized
268           <li>
269         </ul></td>
270     </tr>
271     <tr>
272                         <td width="60" nowrap>
273                                 <div align="center">
274                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2b1">2.8.2b1</a><br /> <em>15/12/2014</em></strong>
275                                 </div>
276                         </td>
277                         <td>
278                                 <div align="center">
279                                 </div>
280                         </td>
281                         <td>
282                                 <div align="center">
283                                         <ul><li>Reinstated the display of default example file on startup</li>
284                                         <li>All pairs shown in Jalview window when viewing result of pairwise alignment</li>
285                                         </ul>
286                                 </div>
287                         </td>
288                 </tr>
289                 <tr>
290                         <td><div align="center">
291                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
292                                 </div></td>
293                         <td><em>General</em>
294                                 <ul>
295                                 <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by Certum.PL.</li>
296                                         <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing pairwise
297                                                 alignment</li>
298                                         <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
299                                                 imported/exported/displayed</li>
300                                         <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; can colour by RNA and
301                                           protein secondary structure</li>
302                                 <li>Warn user if 'Find' regular expression is invalid (<em>mentioned post-hoc with 2.9 release</em>)</li>
303
304                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
305                                 <ul>
306                                         <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences with
307                                                 3D structures</li>
308                                         <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
309                                         <li>Annotations menu for layout
310                                                 <ul>
311                                                         <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
312                                                         <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
313                                                                 annotation</li>
314                                                 </ul>
315                                         <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
316                                         <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es) translation</li>
317                                         <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
318                                         <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks shared
319                                                 between alignments</li>
320                                         <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from Jalview</li>
321                                         <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for all
322                                                 or current selection</li>
323                                         <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions available as
324                                                 dataset annotation</li>
325                                         <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
326
327
328                                         <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
329                                                 alignments from Rfam</li>
330                                         <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
331
332                                         <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
333                                                 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
334                                         <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
335                                         <li>include installation type in build properties and console
336                                                 log output</li>
337                                         <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset annotation</li>
338                                 </ul></td>
339                         <td>
340                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
341                                 <ul>
342                                         <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
343                                                 structure in structure-&gt;view-&gt;VARNA</li>
344                                         <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
345                                                 alignment</li>
346                                         <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
347                                         <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
348                                         <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation selects
349                                                 only first column</li>
350                                         <li>Redundancy removal doesn&#39;t result in unlinked leaves
351                                                 shown in tree</li>
352                                         <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
353                                                 properly</li>
354                                         <li>Hide sequence doesn&#39;t hide associated annotation</li>
355                                         <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on screen
356                                                 and buttons not visible</li>
357                                         <li>author list isn't updated if already written to Jalview
358                                                 properties</li>
359                                         <li>Popup menu won&#39;t open after retrieving sequence from
360                                                 database</li>
361                                         <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn&#39;t open</li>
362                                         <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a browser
363                                                 search window</li>
364                                         <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu in
365                                                 feature settings dialog</li>
366                                         <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview desktop</li>
367                                         <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn&#39;t pass
368                                                 validation</li>
369                                         <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to fit on
370                                                 screen</li>
371                                         <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by tooltip</li>
372                                         <li>JABAWS preset submenus don&#39;t contain newly defined
373                                                 user preset</li>
374                                         <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched with
375                                                 invalid input</li>
376                                         <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on Java 8</li>
377                                         <li>
378                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
379                                                 &#39;Superpose with&#39; submenu not shown when new view created
380                                         </li>
381
382                                 </ul> <!--  <em>Applet</em>
383                                 <ul>
384                                 </ul> <em>General</em>
385                                 <ul> 
386                                 </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
387                                 <ul>
388                                         <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on memory
389                                                 allocation</li>
390                                         <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
391                                                 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
392                                         <li>
393                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
394                                                 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java 1.7_055 is
395                                                 available
396                                         </li>
397                                 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
398                                 <ul>
399                                         <li>
400                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
401                                                 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling alignment
402                                                 to right
403                                         </li>
404                                         <li>
405                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
406                                                 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval with
407                                                 large number of ID
408                                         </li>
409                                         <li>
410                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
411                                                 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence start/end
412                                         </li>
413                                         <li>
414                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
415                                                 rna structure consensus doesn&#39;t update when secondary
416                                                 structure tracks are rearranged
417                                         </li>
418                                         <li>
419                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
420                                                 invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not highlight
421                                                 position of invalid base pairs
422                                         </li>
423                                         <li>
424                                                 <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
425                                                 out of memory errors are not raised when saving Jalview project
426                                                 from alignment window file menu
427                                         </li>
428                                         <li>
429                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
430                                                 Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn&#39;t propagate to
431                                                 structures
432                                         </li>
433                                         <li>
434                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
435                                                 colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created annotation
436                                                 added to alignment
437                                         </li>
438                                         <li>
439                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
440                                                 Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
441                                         </li>
442                                 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
443                                 <ul>
444                                         <li>
445                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
446                                                 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
447                                         </li>
448                                         <li>
449                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
450                                                 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
451                                         </li>
452
453                                         <li>Sort by annotation score doesn&#39;t reverse order when
454                                                 selected</li>
455                                 </ul>
456                         </td>
457                 </tr>
458                 <tr>
459                         <td><div align="center">
460                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
461                                 </div></td>
462                         <td>
463                                 <!--  New features --> <!--  For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
464                                 <em>General</em>
465                                 <ul>
466                                         <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually called
467                                                 i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
468                                         <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
469                                                 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
470                                         <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
471                                                 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
472                                         <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution percentages
473                                                 shown in logo tooltip.</li>
474                                         <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
475                                                 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
476                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
477                                 <ul>
478                                         <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure prediction
479                                                 VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
480                                         <li>Select columns containing particular features from Feature
481                                                 Settings dialog</li>
482                                         <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
483                                                 sequences</li>
484                                         <li>Update Jalview project format:
485                                                 <ul>
486               <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
487                                                         <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to store
488                                                                 secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
489                                                         <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
490                                                                 colouring</li>
491                                                 </ul>
492                                         </li>
493                                         <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
494                                                 (PAM250)</li>
495                                         <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of flanking
496                                                 regions for an alignment</li>
497                                 </ul>
498                         </td>
499                         <td>
500                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
501                                 <ul>
502                                         <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
503                                                 running after job is cancelled</li>
504                                         <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
505                                                 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
506                                         <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take float
507                                                 values</li>
508                                         <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't have
509                                                 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
510                                         <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
511                                                 annotation shading not saved in Jalview project</li>
512                                         <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded Jalview</li>
513                                         <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart</li>
514                                         <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
515                                         <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
516                                         <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
517                                                 alignment onto desktop</li>
518                                         <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
519                                                 'extract scores' function</li>
520                                         <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
521                                                 alignment window</li>
522                                         <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after performing
523                                                 IUPred disorder prediction</li>
524                                         <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
525                                                 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
526                                         <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
527                                                 nothing matches query</li>
528                                         <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by feature
529                                                 with lots of groups<!--  possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
530                                         </li>
531                                         <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment don't
532                                                 overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
533                                         </li>
534                                         <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in Jalview's
535                                                 menu</li>
536                                         <li>JAVAWS version of Jalview fails to launch with 'invalid
537                                                 literal/length code'</li>
538                                         <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied to
539                                                 alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
540             <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default colourscheme</li>
541
542                                 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
543                                 <ul>
544                                         <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is not a
545                                                 group</li>
546                                         <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes don't
547                                                 affect groups</li>
548                                                 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid colourscheme name</li>
549                                                 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
550                                                 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and embedded windows</li>
551                                 </ul> <em>Other</em>
552                                 <ul>
553                                         <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a single
554                                                 sequence were not calculated</li>
555                                         <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
556                                                 annotation and junk sequences</li>
557                                         <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
558                                                 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
559                                         <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option doesn't
560                                                 affect background (2.8.0b1)
561                                         <li></li>
562                                         <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
563                                         <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
564                                                 trailing gaps</li>
565                                         <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not registered
566                                                 correctly on import</li>
567                                         <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for certain
568                                                 alignments</li>
569                                         <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an existing
570                                                 annotation based 'use original colours' colourscheme loses
571                                                 original colours setting</li>
572                                 </ul>
573                         </td>
574                 </tr>
575                 <tr>
576         <td><div align="center">
577         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br/><em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
578         </div>
579         </td>
580       <td>
581         <ul>
582           <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
583             Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
584             <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
585             open source project).
586           </li>
587           <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by Uniprot and EBI-search
588           </li>
589           <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
590           <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
591           <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
592             graph thresholds</li>
593           <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
594             ambiguity codes</li>
595           <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
596             selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
597             works</li>
598           <li>Groovy scripting for headless Jalview operation</li>
599         </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
600         <ul>
601           <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
602           <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
603             GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
604           <li>Support &#39;&#39; style escaping of quotes in Newick
605             files</li>
606           <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
607           <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
608             link but no description</li>
609           <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
610             database fetcher GUI</li>
611           <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
612             Jalview</li>
613           <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
614         </ul>
615       </td>
616       <td>
617         <ul>
618           <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
619             displayed</li>
620           <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
621             secondary structure annotation line</li>
622           <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
623             fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
624           <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
625             identical IDs</li>
626           <li>View all structures does not always superpose
627             structures</li>
628           <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
629             reflect user or preset settings</li>
630           <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
631             presets or adjustable parameters</li>
632           <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn&#39;t
633             discover PDB xRefs</li>
634           <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
635             features with DAS</li>
636           <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn&#39;t coloured
637             when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
638           <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
639             residue follows a gap</li>
640           <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
641             Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
642           <li>&#39;Right click to add annotations&#39; message
643             shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
644           <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
645             annotation already exists on alignment</li>
646           <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
647             initialisation completes</li>
648           <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
649             alignment window display</li>
650           <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
651           <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
652             to annotation file</li>
653           <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
654             groups created</li>
655           <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
656             several &#39;combine&#39; statements in annotation file</li>
657           <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
658             exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
659           <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn&#39;t submit
660             correct partitions for input data</li>
661           <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
662           <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
663           <li>--headless flag isn&#39;t understood</li>
664           <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
665             mode</li>
666           <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
667             changes one row&#39;s threshold</li>            
668           <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
669             doesn&#39;t open</li>
670                                         <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
671                                                 quality histograms</li>
672                                 </ul>
673       </td>
674     </tr>
675   <tr>
676    <td><div align="center">
677      <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
678     </div></td>
679    <td><em>Application</em>
680     <ul><li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
681      conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
682     <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services preferences
683    </li>
684     <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in
685      Jalview alignment window</li>
686     <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain
687      lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
688     <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA
689      and ambiguity codes</li>
690
691     <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
692     <li>Support fetching and database reference look up against
693      multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')</li>
694     <li>Jalview project improvements
695      <ul>
696       <li>Store and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for
697        annotation</li>
698       <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
699        alignment</li>
700       <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview
701        project</li>
702
703      </ul>
704    </li>
705     <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
706     <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running</li>
707     <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
708     <li>visual indication that web service results are still being
709      retrieved from server</li>
710     <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview starts up
711      for first time</li>
712     <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
713      services</li>
714     <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client
715      library</li>
716     <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
717      InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
718     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
719     <ul>
720      <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
721       visualization applet example</li>
722     </ul> <em>General</em>
723     <ul>
724      <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
725      <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
726       defaults</li>
727      <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
728       calculation</li>
729      <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
730       matrices
731      <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported in
732       HTML</li>
733      <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary structure
734       contacts</li>
735      <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
736      <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
737      <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure information
738       in Stockholm files</li>
739      <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation information
740       presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
741      <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA
742       alignment files</li>
743      <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
744       alignment</li>
745      <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; per sequence option to
746       shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
747       annotation</li>
748      <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
749     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
750     <ul>
751      <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
752      <li>New Website!</li>
753     </ul></td>
754    <td><em>Application</em>
755     <ul>
756      <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
757       wsdbfetch REST service</li>
758      <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
759      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
760      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
761       execution in full once it is complete</li>
762      <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
763       uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
764      <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
765      <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
766      <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
767       submitted for prediction</li>
768      <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
769       desktop window</li>
770      <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
771       alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
772      <li>Structure view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
773      </li>
774      <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
775       structure view</li>
776      <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
777       escaped in a platform independent way</li>
778      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using
779       proxy</li>
780      <li>Tree calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more
781       sequences selected&#39; when selection is empty</li>
782      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure
783       when java web start temporary file caching is disabled</li>
784      <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in
785       sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
786      <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments cause
787       progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
788      <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS
789       sources in sequence fetcher</li>
790      <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog
791       is shown</li>
792      <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
793      <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
794      <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
795      <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on
796       OSX Mountain Lion</li>
797      <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when sequences
798       with alignment annotation are pasted into the alignment</li>
799      <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated when
800       loaded from Jalview project</li>
801      <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
802      <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled
803       or job failed due to invalid input</li>
804      <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated
805       with all views</li>
806      <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
807       annotation rows to new window</li>
808     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
809     <ul>
810      <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they
811       are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
812      <li>loading features via javascript API automatically enables
813       feature display</li>
814      <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn&#39;t work</li>
815     </ul> <em>General</em>
816     <ul>
817      <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
818      <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected and
819       then deselected</li>
820      <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
821      <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
822       coloured with clustalx</li>
823      <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
824       exceptions and redraw errors</li>
825      <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured
826       view</li>
827      <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line colour</li>
828      <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted for
829       lots of labels</li>
830     </ul>
831   </tr>
832   <tr>
833    <td>
834     <div align="center">
835      <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
836     </div>
837    </td>
838    <td><em>Application</em>
839     <ul>
840      <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
841      <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
842      <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
843       specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
844       colours/correspondences from</li>
845      <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
846      <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations between
847       many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
848      <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
849      <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
850       in project file</li>
851      <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
852       preserved in Jalview project file</li>
853      <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
854       using Desktop window menu</li>
855      <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
856       being processed</li>
857      <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
858      <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
859       preferences</li>
860      <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
861       alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
862       IDs</li>
863      <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
864      <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
865       in same window</li>
866      <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
867      <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
868       analysis function in its own submenu</li>
869     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
870     <ul>
871      <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
872      <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
873      <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
874      <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
875      <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
876      <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
877       annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
878      <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
879      <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
880       parameters are treated as such</li>
881      <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
882       <ul>
883        <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
884        <li>Javascript callbacks for
885         <ul>
886          <li>Applet initialisation</li>
887          <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
888         </ul>
889        </li>
890        <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
891        <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
892        <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
893         between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
894        <li>sortBy method</li>
895        <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
896         documentation</li>
897        <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
898         javascript message exchange</li>
899       </ul>
900     </ul> <em>General</em>
901     <ul>
902      <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
903       multiple alignments</li>
904      <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
905      <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
906       www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
907      <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
908      <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
909       other flat files</li>
910      <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
911       html tags</li>
912     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
913     <ul>
914      <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
915      </li>
916      <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
917       web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
918      <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
919      <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
920       archive</li>
921      <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
922      <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
923     </ul></td>
924    <td><em>Application</em>
925     <ul>
926      <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
927       built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
928      <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
929       valid filename/format</li>
930      <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
931      <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
932      <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
933       sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
934      <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
935       matches sequence IDs</li>
936      <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
937      <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
938       cannot be loaded</li>
939      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
940      <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
941       sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
942       associated sequence</li>
943      <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
944       preserved when project is loaded</li>
945      <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
946       in Jalview project</li>
947      <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a Jalview
948       project</li>
949      <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
950      <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
951       conservation</li>
952      <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
953       created on new view</li>
954      <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
955       hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
956      <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
957       row is hidden then shown</li>
958      <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in
959       pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
960      <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
961      </li>
962      <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
963       services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
964      <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
965      <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
966       name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
967      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
968       execution in full once it is complete</li>
969     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
970     <ul>
971      <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
972       rows are displayed</li>
973      <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
974       codebase</li>
975      <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
976       sequences</li>
977      <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
978      <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
979      <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
980       javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
981       parameter</li>
982      <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
983       alignment with no existing selection</li>
984      <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
985       applet&#39;s codebase</li>
986      <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
987       wraps around to first result</li>
988      <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
989       Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
990      <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
991       sent from Jmol in applet</li>
992      <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
993       fatally hang browser</li>
994     </ul> <em>General</em>
995     <ul>
996      <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
997       with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
998      <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
999       hidden columns</li>
1000      <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
1001       off by 1</li>
1002      <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
1003       import PDB like structure files</li>
1004      <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
1005       user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
1006      <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
1007      <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
1008       sequence position</li>
1009      <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
1010      <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
1011       nucleotide chains correctly</li>
1012      <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
1013       in alignment</li>
1014      <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
1015       parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
1016      <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
1017      </li>
1018      <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
1019      <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
1020       associated with their pdb files</li>
1021     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1022     <ul>
1023      <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
1024       tool</li>
1025     </ul></td>
1026   </tr>
1027   <tr>
1028                         <td>
1029                                 <div align="center">
1030                                         <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a>
1031                                         </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
1032                                 </div></td>
1033                         <td><em>Application</em>
1034                                 <ul>
1035                                         <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot contact
1036                                                 web services</li>
1037                                         <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in service
1038                                                 job window</li>
1039                                         <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
1040                                 </ul></td>
1041                         <td>
1042                                 <ul>
1043                                         <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a pir
1044                                                 file emitted by Jalview</li>
1045                                         <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new alignment
1046                                                 view created from cut'n'paste</li>
1047                                         <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
1048                                                 parsing PDB files</li>
1049                                         <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows occasionally
1050                                                 become blank for all new windows</li>
1051                                         <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences in
1052                                                 wrapped view mode</li>
1053                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1054                                 <ul>
1055                                         <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu usage
1056                                                 to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
1057                                         <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
1058                                                 parameter names</li>
1059                                         <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server is
1060                                                 down</li>
1061                                 </ul></td>
1062                 </tr>
1063                 <tr>
1064                 <td>
1065                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br>
1066                 <em>26/9/2010</em></div>
1067                 </td>
1068                 <td><em>Application</em>
1069                 <ul>
1070                         <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
1071                         <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices (JABAWS)</li>
1072                         <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
1073                         <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined preferences</li>
1074                         <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
1075                         <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence alignment</li>
1076                         <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer</li>
1077                 </ul>
1078                 <em>Applet</em>
1079                 <ul>
1080                         <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the link out
1081                         mechanism</li>
1082                 </ul>
1083                 <em>Other</em>
1084                 <ul>
1085                         <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol series
1086                         12</li>
1087                         <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now require Java
1088                         1.5</li>
1089                         <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF sequence
1090                         annotation files</li>
1091                         <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file type
1092                         colour specification</li>
1093                         <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a script
1094                         to check if it being run in an interactive session or in a batch
1095                         operation from the Jalview command line</li>
1096                 </ul>
1097                 </td>
1098                 <td>
1099                 <ul>
1100                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
1101                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1102                 </ul>
1103
1104                 <em>Application</em>
1105                 <ul>
1106                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
1107                         selected Regions menu item</li>
1108                         <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is part
1109                         of a valid accession ID</li>
1110                         <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher runs out
1111                         of memory</li>
1112                         <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca analysis
1113                         results</li>
1114                         <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5
1115                         update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
1116                         <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
1117                 </ul>
1118                 <em>Applet</em>
1119                 <ul>
1120                         <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
1121                         ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are defined.</li>
1122                 </ul>
1123                 </td>
1124         </tr>
1125         <tr>
1126                 <td>
1127                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br>
1128                 <em>14/6/2010</em></div>
1129                 </td>
1130                 <td></td>
1131                 <td>
1132                 <ul>
1133                         <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long sequence IDs
1134                         </li>
1135                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
1136                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1137                         <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not import
1138                         correctly</li>
1139                         <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a number
1140                         of columns are hidden</li>
1141                         <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
1142                         add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are present</li>
1143                         <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats, and
1144                         parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
1145                         <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage of all
1146                         symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
1147
1148                 </ul>
1149                 <em>Applet</em>
1150                 <ul>
1151                         <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
1152                         hidden/removed</li>
1153                 </ul>
1154                 <em>Application</em>
1155                 <ul>
1156                         <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new alignment
1157                         opened where annotation panel is visible but no annotations are
1158                         present on alignment</li>
1159                         <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is incorrectly
1160                         displayed in new alignment window</li>
1161                         <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is flooded
1162                         (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
1163                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
1164                         selected Rregions menu item.</li>
1165                         <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry 'Un' or
1166                         'Non'conserved</li>
1167                         <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by multiple
1168                         distinct alignments</li>
1169                         <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
1170                         changed</li>
1171                         <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences does
1172                         not propagate to associated trees</li>
1173                         <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
1174                         <ul>
1175                                 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop window
1176                                 background</li>
1177                                 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application name set
1178                                 correctly</li>
1179                                 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the save
1180                                 feature colourscheme button</li>
1181                         </ul>
1182                         </li>
1183                 </ul>
1184                 </td>
1185         </tr>
1186         <tr>
1187
1188                 <td>
1189                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br>
1190                 <em>30/4/2010</em></div>
1191                 </td>
1192                 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
1193                 <ul>
1194                         <li>URL links generated from description line for
1195                         regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
1196                         <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu</li>
1197                         <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures</li>
1198                         <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the
1199                         currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
1200                         <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average
1201                         score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
1202                         <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
1203                         <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of selected
1204                         subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
1205                         <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to hide
1206                         everything but the currently selected region.</li>
1207                         <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
1208                 </ul>
1209                 <em>Application</em>
1210                 <ul>
1211                         <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
1212                         retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
1213                         <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
1214                         or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
1215                         <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as database
1216                         references and protein_name is parsed as description line (BioSapiens
1217                         terms).</li>
1218                         <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
1219                         references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
1220                         <!--                    <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
1221                         in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
1222                         <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and conservation
1223                         plots</li>
1224                         <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and
1225                         visualized as sequence logos</li>
1226                         <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within
1227                         each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet --></li>
1228                         <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
1229                         new tree is opened.</li>
1230                         <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
1231                         <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving between
1232                         different screens.</li>
1233                         <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and consensus
1234                         annotation</li>
1235                         <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to <a
1236                                 href="webServices/index.html#envision2">Envision2</a> Workflows</li>
1237                         <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
1238                         <ul>
1239                                 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive used to
1240                                 preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
1241                                 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command
1242                                 line</li>
1243                                 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
1244                                 VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
1245                                 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1246                         </ul>
1247                         </li>
1248                 </ul>
1249                 <em>Applet</em>
1250                 <ul>
1251                         <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1252                         <li>New Parameters
1253                         <ul>
1254                                 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the associated
1255                                 alignment view by the tree when a new tree is opened.</li>
1256                                 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide branch
1257                                 bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1258                                 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide branch
1259                                 lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1260                                 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1261                                 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree view</li>
1262                                 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) - increase the
1263                                 height or width of a cell in the alignment grid relative to the
1264                                 current font size.</li>
1265                         </ul>
1266                         </li>
1267                         <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
1268                 </ul>
1269                 <em>Other</em>
1270                 <ul>
1271                         <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1272                         specification of feature scores</li>
1273                         <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1274                         associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1275                         properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1276                         <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1277                         colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile visualization
1278                         settings.</li>
1279                 </td>
1280                 <td>
1281                 <ul>
1282                         <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather
1283                         than description</li>
1284                         <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence feature
1285                         and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature visibility in
1286                         tooltip).</li>
1287                         <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1288                         <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1289                         documentation.</li>
1290                         <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in
1291                         peptide product</li>
1292                         <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence
1293                         ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper
1294                         case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1295                         <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character
1296                         column annotation labels</li>
1297                         <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with
1298                         documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and
1299                         re-imported)</li>
1300                         <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name</li>
1301                         <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as
1302                         subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.</li>
1303                         <li>Application:
1304                         <ul>
1305                                 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
1306                                 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text
1307                                 excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1308                                 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled when
1309                                 fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1310                                 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1311                                 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
1312                                 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1313                                 sources</li>
1314                                 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes
1315                                 before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1316                                 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for first
1317                                 time.</li>
1318                                 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1319                                 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1320                                 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered from Jalview
1321                                 projects.</li>
1322                         </ul>
1323                         </li>
1324                 </ul>
1325                 </td>
1326
1327         </tr>
1328         <tr>
1329                 <td>
1330                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
1331                 28/10/2009</div>
1332                 </td>
1333                 <td>
1334                 <ul>
1335                         <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
1336                         <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1337                 </ul>
1338                 </td>
1339                 <td>
1340                 <ul>
1341                         <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
1342                         <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond length
1343                         of sequence.</li>
1344                         <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1345                         <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all
1346                         sequences with a given id</li>
1347                         <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID
1348                         string searches</li>
1349                         <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to
1350                         fail with exception</li>
1351                 </ul>
1352                 <em>Application Issues</em>
1353                 <ul>
1354                         <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1355                         <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1356                         sources</li>
1357                 </ul>
1358                 <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1359                 <ul>
1360                         <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with
1361                         installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1362                         <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version
1363                         (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1364                 </ul>
1365                 </td>
1366         </tr>
1367         <tr>
1368                 <td>
1369
1370                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
1371                 27/8/2008</div>
1372                 </td>
1373                 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1374                 <ul>
1375                         <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
1376                         and protein products</li>
1377                         <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue
1378                         mapping to codon position</li>
1379                         <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and
1380                         'clear' button</li>
1381                         <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
1382                         <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric
1383                         data in description line</li>
1384                         <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1385                         <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of
1386                         sequence</li>
1387                 </ul>
1388                 <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1389                 <ul>
1390                         <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1391                         <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1392                         available yet)</li>
1393                         <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
1394                         <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as
1395                         well as sequence ID</li>
1396                         <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1397                 </ul>
1398                 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1399                 <ul>
1400                         <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
1401                         </li>
1402                         <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
1403                         all fetchable databases</li>
1404                         <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence
1405                         command</li>
1406                 </ul>
1407                 <em>Import and Export</em>
1408                 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1409                 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
1410                 products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1411                 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
1412                 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1413                 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1414                 </ul>
1415                 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1416                 <ul>
1417                         <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1418                         <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
1419                         (experimental)</li>
1420                         <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1421                         <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1422                 </ul>
1423                 <em>Application command line</em>
1424                 <ul>
1425                         <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
1426                         applet)</li>
1427                         <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of DAS
1428                         servers to query for alignment features</li>
1429                         <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that are
1430                         also automatically queried for features</li>
1431                         <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy script
1432                         after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1433                 </ul>
1434                 <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1435                 <ul>
1436                         <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1437                         application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
1438                 </ul>
1439                 <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1440                 <ul>
1441                         <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1442                         <li>debug parameter</li>
1443                         <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1444                 </ul>
1445                 <em>Applet API methods</em>
1446                 <ul>
1447                         <li>newView public method</li>
1448                         <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1449                         <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1450                         <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1451                 </ul>
1452                 <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1453                 <ul>
1454                         <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1455                         <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
1456                         release.</li>
1457                         <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1458                         property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1459                         <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1460                         <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1461                         <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1462                         jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1463                         <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development
1464                         version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>
1465                 </ul>
1466
1467                 </td>
1468                 <td>
1469                 <ul>
1470                         <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
1471                         certain formats)</li>
1472                         <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
1473                         editing</li>
1474                         <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1475                         <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1476                         <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1477                         <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1478                         comments</li>
1479                         <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1480                         filenames containing a ':'</li>
1481                         <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
1482                         sequence features</li>
1483                         <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1484                         references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1485                         <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
1486                         causes cascading exceptions</li>
1487                         <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1488                         <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
1489                         parsing fails.</li>
1490                         <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1491                         <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a
1492                         valid output format</li>
1493                         <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
1494                         <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1495                         <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
1496                         <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
1497                         is edited</li>
1498                         <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
1499                         generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1500                         <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
1501                         <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import
1502                         fixed for PFAM records</li>
1503                         <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window
1504                         list</li>
1505                         <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
1506                         read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1507                         <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly</li>
1508                         <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
1509                         for representatives in Applet</li>
1510                         <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
1511                         <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
1512                         <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
1513                         null pointer exceptions</li>
1514                         <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
1515                         column of alignment</li>
1516                         <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July
1517                         2008</li>
1518                         <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is
1519                         case-insensitive</li>
1520                         <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all
1521                         sequences with matching IDs</li>
1522                         <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1523                         containing a sub-sequence</li>
1524                         <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1525                         <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to
1526                         different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1527                         <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1528                         <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen
1529                         version check to complete</li>
1530                         <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when
1531                         passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1532                         <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1533                         retrieved from web service</li>
1534                         <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence
1535                         fetcher initialisation</li>
1536                         <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS
1537                         client</li>
1538                         <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
1539                         <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1540                         sequences</li>
1541                 </ul>
1542                 </td>
1543         </tr>
1544         <tr>
1545                 <td>
1546                 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
1547                 9/5/07</div>
1548                 </td>
1549                 <td>
1550                 <ul>
1551                         <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1552                         <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1553                         <li>Slide sequences</li>
1554                         <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1555                         <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1556                         <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1557                         <li>Feature ordering</li>
1558                         <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1559                         <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1560                         <li>Sort by scores</li>
1561                         <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1562                 </ul>
1563                 </td>
1564                 <td>
1565                 <ul>
1566                         <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1567                         <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1568                         <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1569                         <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1570                         <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1571                         <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1572                         <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1573                         <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1574                         <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1575                         <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1576                         <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1577                 </ul>
1578                 </td>
1579
1580         </tr>
1581         <tr>
1582                 <td>
1583                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
1584                 12/2/07</div>
1585                 </td>
1586                 <td>
1587                 <ul>
1588                         <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1589                         <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
1590                         via textbox
1591                         <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
1592                         &amp; description
1593                         <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
1594                         <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
1595                         be defined
1596                         <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
1597                         in preferences
1598                         <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1599                         sequences
1600                 </ul>
1601                 </td>
1602                 <td>
1603                 <ul>
1604                         <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
1605                         <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1606                         <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1607                 </ul>
1608                 </td>
1609         </tr>
1610         <tr>
1611                 <td>
1612                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
1613                 27/11/06</div>
1614                 </td>
1615                 <td>
1616                 <ul>
1617                         <li>Multiple views on alignment
1618                         <li>Sequence feature editing
1619                         <li>&quot;Reload&quot; alignment
1620                         <li>&quot;Save&quot; to current filename
1621                         <li>Background dependent text colour
1622                         <li>Right align sequence ids
1623                         <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1624                         <li>Format Menu
1625                         <li>Select Menu
1626                         <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1627                         <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1628                         <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1629                         <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1630                         <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1631                         <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1632                 </ul>
1633                 </td>
1634                 <td>
1635                 <ul>
1636                         <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1637                         <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1638                         calculations
1639                         <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
1640                         <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
1641                         alignment)
1642                         <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1643                         <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
1644                         correctly
1645                         <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1646                         <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
1647                         results
1648                         <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by &#8739;
1649                         <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1650                         <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1651                         <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1652                 </ul>
1653                 </td>
1654         </tr>
1655         <tr>
1656                 <td>
1657                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
1658                 12/9/06</div>
1659                 </td>
1660                 <td>
1661                 <ul>
1662                         <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1663                 </ul>
1664                 </td>
1665                 <td>
1666                 <ul>
1667                         <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
1668                         id panel has been resized</li>
1669                         <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
1670                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
1671                         file are relative to sequence position</li>
1672                         <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1673                 </ul>
1674                 </td>
1675         </tr>
1676         <tr>
1677                 <td>
1678                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
1679                 22/8/06</div>
1680                 </td>
1681                 <td>
1682                 <ul>
1683                         <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1684                         <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1685                         <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1686                         <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1687                         <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1688                         <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
1689                         <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1690                         <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1691                         <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1692                         <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
1693                         <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1694                         <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter &quot;sequence<em>x</em>&quot;</li>
1695                 </ul>
1696                 </td>
1697                 <td>
1698                 <ul>
1699                         <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1700                         <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1701                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1702                 </ul>
1703                 </td>
1704         </tr>
1705         <tr>
1706                 <td>
1707                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
1708                 2/5/06</div>
1709                 </td>
1710                 <td>
1711                 <ul>
1712                         <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1713                         <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1714                         <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
1715                         the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1716                 </ul>
1717                 </td>
1718                 <td>
1719                 <ul>
1720                         <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1721                 </ul>
1722                 </td>
1723         </tr>
1724         <tr>
1725                 <td>
1726                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
1727                 18/4/06</div>
1728                 </td>
1729                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1730                 <td>
1731                 <ul>
1732                         <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1733                         <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
1734                 </ul>
1735                 </td>
1736         </tr>
1737         <tr>
1738                 <td>
1739                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
1740                 10/4/06</div>
1741                 </td>
1742                 <td>
1743                 <ul>
1744                         <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1745                         <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1746                         <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1747                         <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
1748                         <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1749                         <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1750                         <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1751                         <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1752                 </ul>
1753                 </td>
1754                 <td>
1755                 <ul>
1756                         <li>Drag &amp; Drop fixed on Linux</li>
1757                         <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
1758                         descriptions saved.</li>
1759                 </ul>
1760                 </td>
1761         </tr>
1762         <tr>
1763                 <td>
1764                 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
1765                 12/12/05</div>
1766                 </td>
1767                 <td>
1768                 <ul>
1769                         <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
1770                         <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
1771                         <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
1772                         file output</li>
1773                         <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
1774                         <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
1775                         HTML form input</li>
1776                 </ul>
1777                 </td>
1778                 <td>
1779                 <ul>
1780                         <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
1781                         <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
1782                         <li>File IO bugs</li>
1783                 </ul>
1784                 </td>
1785         </tr>
1786         <tr>
1787                 <td>
1788                 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
1789                 28/9/05</div>
1790                 </td>
1791                 <td>
1792                 <ul>
1793                         <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
1794                         <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
1795                 </ul>
1796                 </td>
1797                 <td>
1798                 <ul>
1799                         <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
1800                         <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
1801                 </ul>
1802                 </td>
1803         </tr>
1804         <tr>
1805                 <td height="63">
1806                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
1807                 15/9/05</div>
1808                 </td>
1809                 <td>
1810                 <ul>
1811                         <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
1812                         <li>Jar files are executable</li>
1813                         <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
1814                 </ul>
1815                 </td>
1816                 <td>
1817                 <ul>
1818                         <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
1819                         <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
1820                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1821                 </ul>
1822                 </td>
1823         </tr>
1824         <tr>
1825                 <td>
1826                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
1827                 30/8/05</div>
1828                 </td>
1829                 <td>
1830                 <ul>
1831                         <li>Edit and annotate in &quot;Wrapped&quot; view</li>
1832                 </ul>
1833                 </td>
1834                 <td>
1835                 <ul>
1836                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1837                 </ul>
1838                 </td>
1839         </tr>
1840         <tr>
1841                 <td>
1842                 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
1843                 24/8/05</div>
1844                 </td>
1845                 <td>
1846                 <ul>
1847                         <li>Hold down mouse wheel &amp; scroll to change font size</li>
1848                 </ul>
1849                 </td>
1850                 <td>
1851                 <ul>
1852                         <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
1853                         <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
1854                 </ul>
1855                 </td>
1856         </tr>
1857         <tr>
1858                 <td>
1859                 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
1860                 18/8/05</div>
1861                 </td>
1862                 <td>
1863                 <ul>
1864                         <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
1865                         <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
1866                         <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
1867                         Colour Menu</li>
1868                         <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
1869                         <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
1870                         <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
1871                         <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
1872                 </ul>
1873                 </td>
1874                 <td>
1875                 <ul>
1876                         <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
1877                 </ul>
1878                 </td>
1879         </tr>
1880         <tr>
1881                 <td>
1882                 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
1883                 18/7/05</div>
1884                 </td>
1885                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1886                 <td>
1887                 <ul>
1888                         <li>Copy &amp; Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
1889                         order.</li>
1890                 </ul>
1891                 </td>
1892         </tr>
1893         <tr>
1894                 <td>
1895                 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
1896                 12/7/05</div>
1897                 </td>
1898                 <td>
1899                 <ul>
1900                         <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
1901                         <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
1902                         <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
1903                         annotations.</li>
1904                         <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
1905                         <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
1906                         launch of Jalview.</li>
1907                 </ul>
1908                 </td>
1909                 <td>
1910                 <ul>
1911                         <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
1912                         <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
1913                         <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
1914                         <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
1915                         <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
1916                         will initiate a search.<br>
1917                         </li>
1918                 </ul>
1919                 </td>
1920         </tr>
1921         <tr>
1922                 <td>
1923                 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
1924                 20/6/05</div>
1925                 </td>
1926                 <td>
1927                 <ul>
1928                         <li>New codebase</li>
1929                 </ul>
1930                 </td>
1931                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1932         </tr>
1933 </table>
1934 <p>&nbsp;</p>
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