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23 <title>Release History</title>
27 <strong>Release History</strong>
31 <td width="60" nowrap>
33 <em><strong>Release</strong></em>
38 <em><strong>New Features</strong></em>
43 <em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em>
48 <td width="60" nowrap>
50 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.1">2.9.1</a><br /> <em>21/6/2016</em></strong>
56 </ul> <em>Application</em>
59 <li><!-- JAL-2027-->Support for reverse-complement coding regions in ENA and EMBL</li>
60 <li><!-- JAL-1855, JAL-2113, JAL-2114-->Upgrade to EMBL XML 1.2 for ENA record retrieval</li>
61 <li><!-- JAL 1812 -->New 'execute Groovy script' option in an alignment window's Calculate menu</li>
62 <li><!-- JAL 1812 -->Allow groovy scripts that call Jalview.getAlignFrames() to run in headless mode</li>
72 <li><!-- JAL-2077 -->reinstate CTRL-click for opening pop-up menu on OSX</li>
73 <li><!-- JAL-2018-->Export features in Jalview format (again) includes graduated colourschemes</li>
74 <li><!-- JAL-1722, JAL-2001-->More responsive when working with big alignments and lots of hidden columns</li>
75 <li><!-- JAL-2053-->hidden column markers not always rendered at right of alignment window</li>
76 <li><!-- JAL-2067, JAL- -->Tidied up links in help file table of contents</li>
77 <li><!-- JAL-2072 -->Feature based tree calculation not shown for DNA alignments</li>
78 <li><!-- JAL-2075 -->Hidden columns ignored during feature based tree calculation</li>
79 <li><!-- JAL-2065 -->Alignment view stops updating when show unconserved enabled for group on alignment</li>
85 <li><!-- JAL-1944 not yet fixed Error thrown when exporting a view with hidden sequences as flat-file alignment--></li>
86 <li><!-- JAL-1911-->Corrupt preferences for SVG, EPS & HTML output when running on non-gb/us i18n platforms</li>
87 <li><!-- JAL-1552-->URLs and links can imported by drag'n'drop on OSX webstart</li>
88 <li><!-- JAL-2030-->InstallAnywhere distribution fails when launching Chimera</li>
89 <li><!-- JAL-2080-->Jalview very slow to launch via webstart (also hotfix for 2.9.0b2)</li>
90 <!-- may exclude, this is an external service stability issue JAL-1941 /> RNA 3D structure not added via DSSR service</li> -->
100 <td width="60" nowrap>
102 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.0b2">2.9.0b2</a><br />
103 <em>16/10/2015</em></strong>
108 <li>Time stamps for signed Jalview application and applet
115 <li>Duplicate group consensus and conservation rows
116 shown when tree is partitioned</li>
117 <li>Erratic behaviour when tree partitions made with
118 multiple cDNA/Protein split views</li>
124 <td width="60" nowrap>
126 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.0b1">2.9.0b1</a><br />
127 <em>8/10/2015</em></strong>
132 <li>Updated Spanish translations of localized text for
134 </ul> <em>Application</em>
136 <!-- <li>cDNA/Protein splitframe window geometry preserved in Jalview projects</li>-->
137 <li>Signed OSX InstallAnywhere installer<br></li>
138 <li>Support for per-sequence based annotations in BioJSON</li>
139 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
141 <li>Split frame example added to applet examples page</li>
147 <li>Mapping of cDNA to protein in split frames
148 incorrect when sequence start > 1</li>
149 <li>Broken images in filter column by annotation dialog
151 <li>Feature colours not parsed from features file</li>
152 <li>Exceptions and incomplete link URLs recovered when
153 loading a features file containing HTML tags in feature
159 <li>Annotations corrupted after BioJS export and
161 <li>Incorrect sequence limits after Fetch DB References
162 with 'trim retrieved sequences'</li>
163 <li>Incorrect warning about deleting all data when
164 deleting selected columns</li>
165 <li>Patch to build system for shipping properly signed
166 JNLP templates for webstart launch</li>
167 <li>EMBL-PDBe fetcher/viewer dialogs do not offer
168 unreleased structures for download or viewing</li>
169 <li>Tab/space/return keystroke operation of EMBL-PDBe
170 fetcher/viewer dialogs works correctly</li>
171 <li>Disabled 'minimise' button on Jalview windows
172 running on OSX to workaround redraw hang bug</li>
173 <li>Split cDNA/Protein view position and geometry not
174 recovered from jalview project</li>
175 <li>Initial enabled/disabled state of annotation menu
176 sorter 'show autocalculated first/last' corresponds to
178 <li>Restoring of Clustal, RNA Helices and T-Coffee
179 color schemes from BioJSON</li>
183 <li>Reorder sequences mirrored in cDNA/Protein split
185 <li>Applet with Jmol examples not loading correctly</li>
191 <td><div align="center">
192 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9">2.9</a><br /> <em>10/9/2015</em></strong>
196 <li>Linked visualisation and analysis of DNA and Protein
199 <li>Translated cDNA alignments shown as split protein
200 and DNA alignment views</li>
201 <li>Codon consensus annotation for linked protein and
202 cDNA alignment views</li>
203 <li>Link cDNA or Protein product sequences by loading
204 them onto Protein or cDNA alignments</li>
205 <li>Reconstruct linked cDNA alignment from aligned
206 protein sequences</li>
209 <li>Jmol integration updated to Jmol v14.2.14</li>
210 <li>Import and export of Jalview alignment views as <a
211 href="features/bioJsonFormat.html">BioJSON</a></li>
212 <li>New alignment annotation file statements for
213 reference sequences and marking hidden columns</li>
214 <li>Reference sequence based alignment shading to
215 highlight variation</li>
216 <li>Select or hide columns according to alignment
218 <li>Find option for locating sequences by description</li>
219 <li>Conserved physicochemical properties shown in amino
220 acid conservation row</li>
221 <li>Alignments can be sorted by number of RNA helices</li>
222 </ul> <em>Application</em>
224 <li>New cDNA/Protein analysis capabilities
226 <li>Get Cross-References should open a Split Frame
227 view with cDNA/Protein</li>
228 <li>Detect when nucleotide sequences and protein
229 sequences are placed in the same alignment</li>
230 <li>Split cDNA/Protein views are saved in Jalview
235 <li>Use REST API to talk to Chimera</li>
236 <li>Selected regions in Chimera are highlighted in linked
239 <li>VARNA RNA viewer updated to v3.93</li>
240 <li>VARNA views are saved in Jalview Projects</li>
241 <li>Pseudoknots displayed as Jalview RNA annotation can
242 be shown in VARNA</li>
244 <li>Make groups for selection uses marked columns as well
245 as the active selected region</li>
247 <li>Calculate UPGMA and NJ trees using sequence feature
249 <li>New Export options
251 <li>New Export Settings dialog to control hidden
252 region export in flat file generation</li>
254 <li>Export alignment views for display with the <a
255 href="http://biojs.io/d/msa">BioJS MSAViewer</a></li>
257 <li>Export scrollable SVG in HTML page</li>
258 <li>Optional embedding of BioJSON data when exporting
259 alignment figures to HTML</li>
261 <li>3D structure retrieval and display
263 <li>Free text and structured queries with the PDBe
265 <li>PDBe Search API based discovery and selection of
266 PDB structures for a sequence set</li>
270 <li>JPred4 employed for protein secondary structure
272 <li>Hide Insertions menu option to hide unaligned columns
273 for one or a group of sequences</li>
274 <li>Automatically hide insertions in alignments imported
275 from the JPred4 web server</li>
276 <li>(Nearly) Native 'Quaqua' dialogs for browsing file
277 system on OSX<br />LGPL libraries courtesy of <a
278 href="http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/">http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/</a>
280 <li>changed 'View nucleotide structure' submenu to 'View
281 VARNA 2D Structure'</li>
282 <li>change "View protein structure" menu option to "3D
285 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
287 <li>New layout for applet example pages</li>
288 <li>New parameters to enable SplitFrame view
289 (file2,enableSplitFrame, scaleProteinAsCdna)</li>
290 <li>New example demonstrating linked viewing of cDNA and
291 Protein alignments</li>
292 </ul> <em>Development and deployment</em>
294 <li>Java 1.7 minimum requirement for Jalview 2.9</li>
295 <li>Include installation type and git revision in build
296 properties and console log output</li>
297 <li>Jalview Github organisation, and new github site for
298 storing BioJsMSA Templates</li>
299 <li>Jalview's unit tests now managed with TestNG</li>
302 <!-- <em>General</em>
304 </ul> --> <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
306 <li>Escape should close any open find dialogs</li>
307 <li>Typo in select-by-features status report</li>
308 <li>Consensus RNA secondary secondary structure
309 predictions are not highlighted in amber</li>
310 <li>Missing gap character in v2.7 example file means
311 alignment appears unaligned when pad-gaps is not enabled</li>
312 <li>First switch to RNA Helices colouring doesn't colour
313 associated structure views</li>
314 <li>ID width preference option is greyed out when auto
315 width checkbox not enabled</li>
316 <li>Stopped a warning dialog from being shown when
317 creating user defined colours</li>
318 <li>'View Mapping' in structure viewer shows sequence
319 mappings for just that viewer's sequences</li>
320 <li>Workaround for superposing PDB files containing
321 multiple models in Chimera</li>
322 <li>Report sequence position in status bar when hovering
323 over Jmol structure</li>
324 <li>Cannot output gaps as '.' symbols with Selection ->
325 output to text box</li>
326 <li>Flat file exports of alignments with hidden columns
327 have incorrect sequence start/end</li>
328 <li>'Aligning' a second chain to a Chimera structure from
330 <li>Colour schemes applied to structure viewers don't
331 work for nucleotide</li>
332 <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty or invalid file leads
333 to a grey/invisible alignment window</li>
334 <li>Exported Jpred annotation from a sequence region
335 imports to different position</li>
336 <li>Space at beginning of sequence feature tooltips shown
337 on some platforms</li>
338 <li>Chimera viewer 'View | Show Chain' menu is not
340 <li>'New View' fails with a Null Pointer Exception in
341 console if Chimera has been opened</li>
342 <li>Mouseover to Chimera not working</li>
343 <li>Miscellaneous ENA XML feature qualifiers not
345 <li>NPE in annotation renderer after 'Extract Scores'</li>
346 <li>If two structures in one Chimera window, mouseover of
347 either sequence shows on first structure</li>
348 <li>'Show annotations' options should not make
349 non-positional annotations visible</li>
350 <li>Subsequence secondary structure annotation not shown
351 in right place after 'view flanking regions'</li>
352 <li>File Save As type unset when current file format is
354 <li>Save as '.jar' option removed for saving Jalview
356 <li>Colour by Sequence colouring in Chimera more
358 <li>Cannot 'add reference annotation' for a sequence in
359 several views on same alignment</li>
360 <li>Cannot show linked products for EMBL / ENA records</li>
361 <li>Jalview's tooltip wraps long texts containing no
363 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
365 <li>Jmol to JalviewLite mouseover/link not working</li>
366 <li>JalviewLite can't import sequences with ID
367 descriptions containing angle brackets</li>
368 </ul> <em>General</em>
370 <li>Cannot export and reimport RNA secondary structure
371 via jalview annotation file</li>
372 <li>Random helix colour palette for colour by annotation
373 with RNA secondary structure</li>
374 <li>Mouseover to cDNA from STOP residue in protein
375 translation doesn't work.</li>
376 <li>hints when using the select by annotation dialog box</li>
377 <li>Jmol alignment incorrect if PDB file has alternate CA
379 <li>FontChooser message dialog appears to hang after
380 choosing 1pt font</li>
381 <li>Peptide secondary structure incorrectly imported from
382 annotation file when annotation display text includes 'e' or
384 <li>Cannot set colour of new feature type whilst creating
386 <li>cDNA translation alignment should not be sequence
388 <li>'Show unconserved' doesn't work for lower case
390 <li>Nucleotide ambiguity codes involving R not recognised</li>
391 </ul> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
393 <li>Applet example pages appear different to the rest of
395 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
397 <li>Incomplete sequence extracted from PDB entry 3a6s</li>
398 <li>Misleading message appears after trying to delete
400 <li>Jalview icon not shown in dock after InstallAnywhere
401 version launches</li>
402 <li>Fetching EMBL reference for an RNA sequence results
403 fails with a sequence mismatch</li>
404 <li>Corrupted or unreadable alignment display when
405 scrolling alignment to right</li>
406 <li>ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown when remove
407 empty columns called on alignment with ragged gapped ends</li>
408 <li>auto calculated alignment annotation rows do not get
409 placed above or below non-autocalculated rows</li>
410 <li>Jalview dekstop becomes sluggish at full screen in
411 ultra-high resolution</li>
412 <li>Cannot disable consensus calculation independently of
413 quality and conservation</li>
414 <li>Mouseover highlighting between cDNA and protein can
415 become sluggish with more than one splitframe shown</li>
416 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
418 <li>Core PDB parsing code requires Jmol</li>
419 <li>Sequence canvas panel goes white when alignment
420 window is being resized</li>
426 <td><div align="center">
427 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
431 <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by
433 <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing
434 pairwise alignment</li>
435 <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
436 imported/exported/displayed</li>
437 <li>'colour by annotation' can colour by RNA and
438 protein secondary structure</li>
439 <li>Warn user if 'Find' regular expression is invalid (<em>mentioned
440 post-hoc with 2.9 release</em>)
443 </ul> <em>Application</em>
445 <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences
446 with 3D structures</li>
447 <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
448 <li>Annotations menu for layout
450 <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
451 <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
454 <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
455 <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es)
457 <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
458 <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks
459 shared between alignments</li>
460 <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from
462 <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for
463 all or current selection</li>
464 <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions
465 available as dataset annotation</li>
466 <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
469 <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
470 alignments from Rfam</li>
471 <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
473 <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
474 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
475 <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
476 <li>include installation type in build properties and
477 console log output</li>
478 <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset
482 <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
484 <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
485 structure in structure->view->VARNA</li>
486 <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
488 <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
489 <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
490 <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation
491 selects only first column</li>
492 <li>Redundancy removal doesn't result in unlinked
493 leaves shown in tree</li>
494 <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
496 <li>Hide sequence doesn't hide associated annotation</li>
497 <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on
498 screen and buttons not visible</li>
499 <li>author list isn't updated if already written to
500 Jalview properties</li>
501 <li>Popup menu won't open after retrieving sequence
503 <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn't open</li>
504 <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a
505 browser search window</li>
506 <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu
507 in feature settings dialog</li>
508 <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview
510 <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn't
512 <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to
514 <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by
516 <li>JABAWS preset submenus don't contain newly
517 defined user preset</li>
518 <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched
519 with invalid input</li>
520 <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on
523 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
524 'Superpose with' submenu not shown when new view
528 </ul> <!-- <em>Applet</em>
530 </ul> <em>General</em>
532 </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
534 <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on
535 memory allocation</li>
536 <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
537 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
539 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
540 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java
543 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
546 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
547 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling
551 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
552 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval
553 with large number of ID
556 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
557 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence
561 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
562 rna structure consensus doesn't update when secondary
563 structure tracks are rearranged
566 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
567 invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not
568 highlight position of invalid base pairs
571 <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
572 out of memory errors are not raised when saving Jalview
573 project from alignment window file menu
576 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
577 Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn't propagate to
581 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
582 colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created
583 annotation added to alignment
586 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
587 Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
589 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
592 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
593 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
596 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
597 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
600 <li>Sort by annotation score doesn't reverse order
606 <td><div align="center">
607 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
610 <!-- New features --> <!-- For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
613 <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually
614 called i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
615 <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
616 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
617 <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
618 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
619 <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution
620 percentages shown in logo tooltip.</li>
621 <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
622 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
623 </ul> <em>Application</em>
625 <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure
626 prediction VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
627 <li>Select columns containing particular features from
628 Feature Settings dialog</li>
629 <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
631 <li>Update Jalview project format:
633 <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
634 <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to
635 store secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
636 <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
640 <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
642 <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of
643 flanking regions for an alignment</li>
647 <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
649 <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
650 running after job is cancelled</li>
651 <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
652 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
653 <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take
655 <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't
656 have 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
657 <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
658 annotation shading not saved in Jalview project</li>
659 <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded
661 <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain
663 <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
664 <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
665 <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
666 alignment onto desktop</li>
667 <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
668 'extract scores' function</li>
669 <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
670 alignment window</li>
671 <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after
672 performing IUPred disorder prediction</li>
673 <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
674 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
675 <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
676 nothing matches query</li>
677 <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by
678 feature with lots of groups<!-- possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
680 <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment
681 don't overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
683 <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in
685 <li>JAVAWS version of Jalview fails to launch with
686 'invalid literal/length code'</li>
687 <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied
688 to alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
689 <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default
692 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
694 <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is
696 <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes
697 don't affect groups</li>
698 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid
699 colourscheme name</li>
700 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when
701 Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
702 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and
703 embedded windows</li>
706 <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a
707 single sequence were not calculated</li>
708 <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
709 annotation and junk sequences</li>
710 <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
711 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
712 <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option
713 doesn't affect background (2.8.0b1)
715 <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
716 <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
718 <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not
719 registered correctly on import</li>
720 <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for
721 certain alignments</li>
722 <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an
723 existing annotation based 'use original colours'
724 colourscheme loses original colours setting</li>
729 <td><div align="center">
730 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br />
731 <em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
735 <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
736 Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
737 <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
738 open source project).
740 <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by Uniprot and EBI-search
742 <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
743 <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
744 <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
745 graph thresholds</li>
746 <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
748 <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
749 selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
751 <li>Groovy scripting for headless Jalview operation</li>
752 </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
754 <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
755 <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
756 GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
757 <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick
759 <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
760 <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
761 link but no description</li>
762 <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
763 database fetcher GUI</li>
764 <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
766 <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
771 <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
773 <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
774 secondary structure annotation line</li>
775 <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
776 fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
777 <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
779 <li>View all structures does not always superpose
781 <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
782 reflect user or preset settings</li>
783 <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
784 presets or adjustable parameters</li>
785 <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn't
786 discover PDB xRefs</li>
787 <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
788 features with DAS</li>
789 <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn't coloured
790 when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
791 <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
792 residue follows a gap</li>
793 <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
794 Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
795 <li>'Right click to add annotations' message
796 shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
797 <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
798 annotation already exists on alignment</li>
799 <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
800 initialisation completes</li>
801 <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
802 alignment window display</li>
803 <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
804 <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
805 to annotation file</li>
806 <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
808 <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
809 several 'combine' statements in annotation file</li>
810 <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
811 exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
812 <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn't submit
813 correct partitions for input data</li>
814 <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
815 <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
816 <li>--headless flag isn't understood</li>
817 <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
819 <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
820 changes one row's threshold</li>
821 <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
822 doesn't open</li>
823 <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
824 quality histograms</li>
829 <td><div align="center">
830 <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
832 <td><em>Application</em>
834 <li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
835 conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
836 <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services
838 <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures
839 in Jalview alignment window</li>
840 <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX
841 mountain lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
842 <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports
843 RNA and ambiguity codes</li>
845 <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
846 <li>Support fetching and database reference look up
847 against multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db
849 <li>Jalview project improvements
851 <li>Store and retrieve the 'belowAlignment'
852 flag for annotation</li>
853 <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
855 <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in
860 <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
861 <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is
863 <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
864 <li>visual indication that web service results are still
865 being retrieved from server</li>
866 <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview
867 starts up for first time</li>
868 <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
870 <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS
872 <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
873 InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
874 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
876 <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
877 visualization applet example</li>
878 </ul> <em>General</em>
880 <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
881 <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
883 <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
885 <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
887 <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported
889 <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary
890 structure contacts</li>
891 <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
892 <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
893 <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure
894 information in Stockholm files</li>
895 <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation
896 information presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
897 <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw
898 style RNA alignment files</li>
899 <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
901 <li>'colour by annotation' per sequence option to
902 shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
904 <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
905 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
907 <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
908 <li>New Website!</li>
910 <td><em>Application</em>
912 <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
913 wsdbfetch REST service</li>
914 <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
915 <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart
917 <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS
918 job execution in full once it is complete</li>
919 <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
920 uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
921 <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
922 <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
923 <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
924 submitted for prediction</li>
925 <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
927 <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
928 alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
929 <li>Structure view highlighting doesn't work on
931 <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
933 <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
934 escaped in a platform independent way</li>
935 <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when
937 <li>Tree calculation reports 'you must have 2 or more
938 sequences selected' when selection is empty</li>
939 <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature
940 failure when java web start temporary file caching is
942 <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification
943 results in sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
944 <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments
945 cause progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
946 <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for
947 DAS sources in sequence fetcher</li>
948 <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning
950 <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
951 <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
952 <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
953 <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run
954 on OSX Mountain Lion</li>
955 <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when
956 sequences with alignment annotation are pasted into the
958 <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated
959 when loaded from Jalview project</li>
960 <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
961 <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was
962 cancelled or job failed due to invalid input</li>
963 <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree
964 associated with all views</li>
965 <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
966 annotation rows to new window</li>
967 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
969 <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before
970 they are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
971 <li>loading features via javascript API automatically
972 enables feature display</li>
973 <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn't
975 </ul> <em>General</em>
977 <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
978 <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected
979 and then deselected</li>
980 <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
981 <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
982 coloured with clustalx</li>
983 <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
984 exceptions and redraw errors</li>
985 <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually
986 reconfigured view</li>
987 <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line
989 <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted
990 for lots of labels</li>
996 <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
999 <td><em>Application</em>
1001 <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
1002 <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
1003 <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to
1004 easily specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes
1005 its colours/correspondences from</li>
1006 <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
1007 <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations
1008 between many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
1009 <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
1010 <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes
1011 stored in project file</li>
1012 <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation
1013 rows preserved in Jalview project file</li>
1014 <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is
1015 saved using Desktop window menu</li>
1016 <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are
1017 still being processed</li>
1018 <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
1019 <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
1021 <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
1022 alignment with sequences that have high similarity and
1024 <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
1025 <li>'view structures' option to open many
1026 structures in same window</li>
1027 <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
1028 <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
1029 analysis function in its own submenu</li>
1030 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1032 <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for
1034 <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
1035 <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
1036 <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
1037 <li>'automaticScrolling' parameter</li>
1038 <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
1039 annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
1040 <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
1041 <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
1042 parameters are treated as such</li>
1043 <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
1045 <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
1046 <li>Javascript callbacks for
1048 <li>Applet initialisation</li>
1049 <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
1052 <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling
1054 <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
1055 <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass
1056 messages between Jmol and Jalview when running as
1057 distinct applets</li>
1058 <li>sortBy method</li>
1059 <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped
1060 with documentation</li>
1061 <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
1062 javascript message exchange</li>
1064 </ul> <em>General</em>
1066 <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
1067 multiple alignments</li>
1068 <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
1069 <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
1070 www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
1071 <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
1072 <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment
1073 and other flat files</li>
1074 <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to
1075 contain html tags</li>
1076 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1078 <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to
1080 <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences
1081 using a web service before displaying the result in the
1082 Jalview desktop</li>
1083 <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
1084 <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
1086 <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
1087 <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
1089 <td><em>Application</em>
1091 <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when
1092 current built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
1093 <li>AlignFrame->Save in application pops up save
1094 dialog for valid filename/format</li>
1095 <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
1096 <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence
1098 <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you
1099 which sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
1100 <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query
1101 only matches sequence IDs</li>
1102 <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
1103 <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview
1104 2.4 cannot be loaded</li>
1105 <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart
1107 <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated
1108 with sequences in different alignments do not get coloured
1109 by their associated sequence</li>
1110 <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row
1111 not preserved when project is loaded</li>
1112 <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not
1113 stored in Jalview project</li>
1114 <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a
1115 Jalview project</li>
1116 <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
1117 <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour
1118 by conservation</li>
1119 <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
1120 created on new view</li>
1121 <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after 'show
1122 all hidden annotation rows' option selected</li>
1123 <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment
1124 annotation row is hidden then shown</li>
1125 <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by
1126 sequences in pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
1127 <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out
1129 <li>Web services menu not refreshed after 'reset
1130 services' button is pressed in preferences</li>
1131 <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
1132 <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project
1133 get name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
1134 <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS
1135 job execution in full once it is complete</li>
1136 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1138 <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of
1139 annotation rows are displayed</li>
1140 <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
1142 <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions
1144 <li><= shown as = in tooltip</li>
1145 <li>Export features raises exception when no features
1147 <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs
1148 for javascript api is modified when separator string
1149 provided as parameter</li>
1150 <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
1151 alignment with no existing selection</li>
1152 <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative
1153 to applet's codebase</li>
1154 <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and
1155 search wraps around to first result</li>
1156 <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between
1157 several Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory
1159 <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure
1160 not sent from Jmol in applet</li>
1161 <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to
1162 applet API fatally hang browser</li>
1163 </ul> <em>General</em>
1165 <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond
1166 position with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
1167 <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue
1168 with/without hidden columns</li>
1169 <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window
1171 <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
1172 import PDB like structure files</li>
1173 <li>Positional search results are only highlighted
1174 between user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
1175 <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
1176 <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a
1177 given sequence position</li>
1178 <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment
1180 <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence
1181 from nucleotide chains correctly</li>
1182 <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition
1183 changed in alignment</li>
1184 <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
1185 parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
1186 <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current
1188 <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn't work
1190 <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not
1191 properly associated with their pdb files</li>
1192 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1194 <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by
1195 ApplyCopyright tool</li>
1200 <div align="center">
1201 <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a> </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
1204 <td><em>Application</em>
1206 <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot
1207 contact web services</li>
1208 <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in
1209 service job window</li>
1210 <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
1214 <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a
1215 pir file emitted by Jalview</li>
1216 <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new
1217 alignment view created from cut'n'paste</li>
1218 <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
1219 parsing PDB files</li>
1220 <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows
1221 occasionally become blank for all new windows</li>
1222 <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences
1223 in wrapped view mode</li>
1224 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1226 <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu
1227 usage to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
1228 <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
1229 parameter names</li>
1230 <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server
1237 <div align="center">
1238 <strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br> <em>26/9/2010</em>
1241 <td><em>Application</em>
1243 <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
1244 <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices
1247 <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
1248 <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined
1250 <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
1251 <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence
1253 <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA
1255 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1257 <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the
1258 link out mechanism</li>
1259 </ul> <em>Other</em>
1261 <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol
1263 <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now
1264 require Java 1.5</li>
1265 <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF
1266 sequence annotation files</li>
1267 <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file
1268 type colour specification</li>
1269 <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a
1270 script to check if it being run in an interactive session or
1271 in a batch operation from the Jalview command line</li>
1275 <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when
1276 both D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1277 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1279 <li>typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but
1280 selected Regions menu item</li>
1281 <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is
1282 part of a valid accession ID</li>
1283 <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher
1284 runs out of memory</li>
1285 <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca
1286 analysis results</li>
1287 <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java
1288 10.5 update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
1289 <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
1290 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1292 <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
1293 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are
1300 <div align="center">
1301 <strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br> <em>14/6/2010</em>
1307 <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long
1309 <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when
1310 both D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1311 <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not
1312 import correctly</li>
1313 <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a
1314 number of columns are hidden</li>
1315 <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
1316 add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are
1318 <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats,
1319 and parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
1320 <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage
1321 of all symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
1323 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1325 <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
1327 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1329 <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new
1330 alignment opened where annotation panel is visible but no
1331 annotations are present on alignment</li>
1332 <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is
1333 incorrectly displayed in new alignment window</li>
1334 <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is
1335 flooded (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
1336 <li>typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but
1337 selected Rregions menu item.</li>
1338 <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry
1339 'Un' or 'Non'conserved</li>
1340 <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by
1341 multiple distinct alignments</li>
1342 <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
1344 <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences
1345 does not propagate to associated trees</li>
1346 <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
1348 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop
1349 window background</li>
1350 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application
1351 name set correctly</li>
1352 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the
1353 save feature colourscheme button</li>
1362 <div align="center">
1363 <strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br> <em>30/4/2010</em>
1366 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
1368 <li>URL links generated from description line for
1369 regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
1372 <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link
1374 <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and
1376 <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display
1377 the currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
1378 <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the
1379 average score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
1380 <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
1381 <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of
1382 selected subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
1383 <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to
1384 hide everything but the currently selected region.</li>
1385 <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
1386 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1388 <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to
1389 support retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
1390 <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the
1391 command line or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
1392 <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as
1393 database references and protein_name is parsed as
1394 description line (BioSapiens terms).</li>
1395 <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
1396 references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in
1398 <!-- <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
1399 in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
1400 <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and
1401 conservation plots</li>
1402 <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported
1403 and visualized as sequence logos</li>
1404 <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit
1405 within each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet -->
1407 <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view
1408 when a new tree is opened.</li>
1409 <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
1410 <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving
1411 between different screens.</li>
1412 <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and
1413 consensus annotation</li>
1414 <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to Envision2 Workflows</li>
1415 <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
1417 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive
1418 used to preserve views, structures, and tree display
1420 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via
1422 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and
1423 with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
1424 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1426 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1428 <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1431 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the
1432 associated alignment view by the tree when a new tree is
1434 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide
1435 branch bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1436 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide
1437 branch lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1438 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1439 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree
1441 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) -
1442 increase the height or width of a cell in the alignment
1443 grid relative to the current font size.</li>
1446 <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID
1448 </ul> <em>Other</em>
1450 <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1451 specification of feature scores</li>
1452 <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1453 associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1454 properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1455 <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1456 colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile
1457 visualization settings.</li></td>
1460 <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source
1461 rather than description</li>
1462 <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence
1463 feature and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature
1464 visibility in tooltip).</li>
1465 <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1466 <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1468 <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as
1469 'X' in peptide product</li>
1470 <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both
1471 sequence ID and sequence string and query strings do not
1472 have to be in upper case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1473 <li>AMSA files only contain first column of
1474 multi-character column annotation labels</li>
1475 <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent
1476 with documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be
1477 exported and re-imported)</li>
1478 <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly
1480 <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well
1481 as subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number
1485 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence
1487 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL
1488 link text excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1489 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled
1490 when fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1491 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1492 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via
1494 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all
1496 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval
1497 completes before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1498 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for
1500 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1501 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1502 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered
1503 from Jalview projects.</li>
1512 <div align="center">
1513 <strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br> 28/10/2009
1518 <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage
1520 <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1525 <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in
1527 <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond
1528 length of sequence.</li>
1529 <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1530 <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with
1531 all sequences with a given id</li>
1532 <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence
1533 ID string searches</li>
1534 <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise
1535 alignment to fail with exception</li>
1536 </ul> <em>Application Issues</em>
1538 <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1539 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all
1541 </ul> <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1543 <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update
1544 issue with installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1545 <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere
1546 version (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1553 <div align="center">
1554 <strong>2.4</strong><br> 27/8/2008
1557 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1559 <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from
1560 translation and protein products</li>
1561 <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with
1562 residue mapping to codon position</li>
1563 <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers
1564 and 'clear' button</li>
1565 <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's
1567 <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated
1568 numeric data in description line</li>
1569 <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1570 <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name
1572 </ul> <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1574 <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1575 <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1577 <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from
1579 <li>URL Links created for matching database cross
1580 references as well as sequence ID</li>
1581 <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1582 </ul> <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1584 <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other
1586 <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and
1587 validation to all fetchable databases</li>
1588 <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the
1589 sequence command</li>
1590 </ul> <em>Import and Export</em>
1591 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1592 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations,
1593 EMBL products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1594 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation
1596 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1597 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1598 </ul> <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1600 <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1601 <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS
1602 alignments (experimental)</li>
1603 <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1604 <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1605 </ul> <em>Application command line</em>
1607 <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing
1609 <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames
1610 of DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
1611 <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers
1612 that are also automatically queried for features</li>
1613 <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
1614 script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1615 </ul> <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1617 <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1618 application (when using "View in full
1619 application")</li>
1620 </ul> <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1622 <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1623 <li>debug parameter</li>
1624 <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1625 </ul> <em>Applet API methods</em>
1627 <li>newView public method</li>
1628 <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1629 <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1630 <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1631 </ul> <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1633 <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1634 <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest
1635 Jalview release.</li>
1636 <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1637 property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1638 <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1639 <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1640 <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1641 jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1642 <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and
1643 development version of Application, Applet and source
1648 <li>selected region output includes visible annotations
1649 (for certain formats)</li>
1650 <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char
1652 <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1653 <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1654 <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1655 <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1657 <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1658 filenames containing a ':'</li>
1659 <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing
1660 global sequence features</li>
1661 <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1662 references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1663 <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour
1664 selection causes cascading exceptions</li>
1665 <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1666 <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when
1667 file parsing fails.</li>
1668 <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1669 <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is
1670 not a valid output format</li>
1671 <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and
1673 <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1674 <li>error messages passed up and output when data read
1676 <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when
1677 sequence is edited</li>
1678 <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like
1679 those generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1680 <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal
1682 <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties
1683 import fixed for PFAM records</li>
1684 <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop
1686 <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores
1687 can be read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1688 <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works
1690 <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and
1691 non-italic font for representatives in Applet</li>
1692 <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on
1694 <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in
1696 <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly
1697 due to null pointer exceptions</li>
1698 <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from
1699 first column of alignment</li>
1700 <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in
1702 <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features
1703 file is case-insensitive</li>
1704 <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to
1705 all sequences with matching IDs</li>
1706 <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1707 containing a sub-sequence</li>
1708 <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1709 <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters
1710 referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1711 <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1712 <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for
1713 splash-screen version check to complete</li>
1714 <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values
1715 when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1716 <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1717 retrieved from web service</li>
1718 <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and
1719 sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
1720 <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of
1721 dasobert DAS client</li>
1722 <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file
1724 <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1732 <div align="center">
1733 <strong>2.3</strong><br> 9/5/07
1738 <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1739 <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1740 <li>Slide sequences</li>
1741 <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1742 <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1743 <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1744 <li>Feature ordering</li>
1745 <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1746 <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1747 <li>Sort by scores</li>
1748 <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1753 <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1754 <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1755 <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1756 <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1757 <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1758 <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1759 <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1760 <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1761 <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1762 <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1763 <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1770 <div align="center">
1771 <strong>2.2.1</strong><br> 12/2/07
1776 <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1777 <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the
1779 <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group
1780 name & description
1781 <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in
1783 <li>Annotation file format extended to allow
1784 Sequence_groups to be defined
1785 <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be
1786 specified in preferences
1787 <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1793 <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6
1795 <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1796 <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1802 <div align="center">
1803 <strong>2.2</strong><br> 27/11/06
1808 <li>Multiple views on alignment
1809 <li>Sequence feature editing
1810 <li>"Reload" alignment
1811 <li>"Save" to current filename
1812 <li>Background dependent text colour
1813 <li>Right align sequence ids
1814 <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1817 <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1818 <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1819 <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1820 <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1821 <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1824 <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1829 <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1830 <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1832 <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after
1834 <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end
1836 <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1839 <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions
1841 <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1842 <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service
1844 <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by
1846 <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1847 <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1848 <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1856 <div align="center">
1857 <strong>2.1.1</strong><br> 12/9/06
1862 <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1867 <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if
1868 sequence id panel has been resized</li>
1869 <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are
1871 <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all
1872 elements in file are relative to sequence position</li>
1873 <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1879 <div align="center">
1880 <strong>2.1</strong><br> 22/8/06
1885 <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1886 <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1887 <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1888 <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1889 <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1890 <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB
1892 <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1893 <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1894 <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1895 <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2
1897 <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1898 <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter
1899 "sequence<em>x</em>"
1905 <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1906 <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1907 <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1913 <div align="center">
1914 <strong>2.08.1</strong><br> 2/5/06
1919 <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1920 <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1921 <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress /
1922 expand the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1927 <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1933 <div align="center">
1934 <strong>2.08b</strong><br> 18/4/06
1940 <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1941 <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct
1948 <div align="center">
1949 <strong>2.08</strong><br> 10/4/06
1954 <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1955 <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1956 <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1957 <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto
1959 <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1960 <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1961 <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1962 <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1967 <li>Drag & Drop fixed on Linux</li>
1968 <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
1969 descriptions saved.</li>
1975 <div align="center">
1976 <strong>2.07</strong><br> 12/12/05
1981 <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
1982 <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
1983 <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence
1984 name for file output</li>
1985 <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
1986 <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be
1987 used for HTML form input</li>
1992 <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
1993 <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
1994 <li>File IO bugs</li>
2000 <div align="center">
2001 <strong>2.06</strong><br> 28/9/05
2006 <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
2007 <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
2012 <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
2013 <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
2019 <div align="center">
2020 <strong>2.05b</strong><br> 15/9/05
2025 <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
2026 <li>Jar files are executable</li>
2027 <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
2032 <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
2033 <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
2034 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
2040 <div align="center">
2041 <strong>2.05</strong><br> 30/8/05
2046 <li>Edit and annotate in "Wrapped" view</li>
2051 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
2057 <div align="center">
2058 <strong>2.04</strong><br> 24/8/05
2063 <li>Hold down mouse wheel & scroll to change font
2069 <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
2070 <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
2076 <div align="center">
2077 <strong>2.03</strong><br> 18/8/05
2082 <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
2083 <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
2084 <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added
2086 <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
2087 <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
2088 <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
2089 <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
2094 <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
2100 <div align="center">
2101 <strong>2.02</strong><br> 18/7/05
2107 <li>Copy & Paste order of sequences maintains
2108 alignment order.</li>
2114 <div align="center">
2115 <strong>2.01</strong><br> 12/7/05
2120 <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
2121 <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
2122 <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
2124 <li>Version and build date written to build properties
2126 <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates
2127 at launch of Jalview.</li>
2132 <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
2133 <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
2134 <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
2135 <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
2136 <li>Finder ignores return character when searching.
2137 Return key will initiate a search.<br>
2144 <div align="center">
2145 <strong>2.0</strong><br> 20/6/05
2150 <li>New codebase</li>