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