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