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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>
69 <li><!-- JAL-2077 -->reinstate CTRL-click for opening pop-up menu on OSX</li>
70 <li><!-- JAL-2018-->Export features in Jalview format (again) includes graduated colourschemes</li>
71 <li><!-- JAL-1722, JAL-2001-->More responsive when working with big alignments and lots of hidden columns</li>
72 <li><!-- JAL-2053-->hidden column markers not always rendered at right of alignment window</li>
73 <li><!-- JAL-2067, JAL- -->Tidied up links in help file table of contents</li>
77 <li><!-- JAL-1944 not yet fixed Error thrown when exporting a view with hidden sequences as flat-file alignment--></li>
78 <li><!-- JAL-1911-->Corrupt preferences for SVG, EPS & HTML output when running on non-gb/us i18n platforms</li>
79 <li><!-- JAL-1552-->URLs and links can imported by drag'n'drop on OSX webstart</li>
80 <li><!-- JAL-2030, JAL-1941-->InstallAnywhere distribution fails when launching Chimera or adding RNA 3D structure via DSSR service</li>
90 <td width="60" nowrap>
92 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.0b2">2.9.0b2</a><br />
93 <em>16/10/2015</em></strong>
98 <li>Time stamps for signed Jalview application and applet
105 <li>Duplicate group consensus and conservation rows
106 shown when tree is partitioned</li>
107 <li>Erratic behaviour when tree partitions made with
108 multiple cDNA/Protein split views</li>
114 <td width="60" nowrap>
116 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.0b1">2.9.0b1</a><br />
117 <em>8/10/2015</em></strong>
122 <li>Updated Spanish translations of localized text for
124 </ul> <em>Application</em>
126 <!-- <li>cDNA/Protein splitframe window geometry preserved in Jalview projects</li>-->
127 <li>Signed OSX InstallAnywhere installer<br></li>
128 <li>Support for per-sequence based annotations in BioJSON</li>
129 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
131 <li>Split frame example added to applet examples page</li>
137 <li>Mapping of cDNA to protein in split frames
138 incorrect when sequence start > 1</li>
139 <li>Broken images in filter column by annotation dialog
141 <li>Feature colours not parsed from features file</li>
142 <li>Exceptions and incomplete link URLs recovered when
143 loading a features file containing HTML tags in feature
149 <li>Annotations corrupted after BioJS export and
151 <li>Incorrect sequence limits after Fetch DB References
152 with 'trim retrieved sequences'</li>
153 <li>Incorrect warning about deleting all data when
154 deleting selected columns</li>
155 <li>Patch to build system for shipping properly signed
156 JNLP templates for webstart launch</li>
157 <li>EMBL-PDBe fetcher/viewer dialogs do not offer
158 unreleased structures for download or viewing</li>
159 <li>Tab/space/return keystroke operation of EMBL-PDBe
160 fetcher/viewer dialogs works correctly</li>
161 <li>Disabled 'minimise' button on Jalview windows
162 running on OSX to workaround redraw hang bug</li>
163 <li>Split cDNA/Protein view position and geometry not
164 recovered from jalview project</li>
165 <li>Initial enabled/disabled state of annotation menu
166 sorter 'show autocalculated first/last' corresponds to
168 <li>Restoring of Clustal, RNA Helices and T-Coffee
169 color schemes from BioJSON</li>
173 <li>Reorder sequences mirrored in cDNA/Protein split
175 <li>Applet with Jmol examples not loading correctly</li>
181 <td><div align="center">
182 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9">2.9</a><br /> <em>10/9/2015</em></strong>
186 <li>Linked visualisation and analysis of DNA and Protein
189 <li>Translated cDNA alignments shown as split protein
190 and DNA alignment views</li>
191 <li>Codon consensus annotation for linked protein and
192 cDNA alignment views</li>
193 <li>Link cDNA or Protein product sequences by loading
194 them onto Protein or cDNA alignments</li>
195 <li>Reconstruct linked cDNA alignment from aligned
196 protein sequences</li>
199 <li>Jmol integration updated to Jmol v14.2.14</li>
200 <li>Import and export of Jalview alignment views as <a
201 href="features/bioJsonFormat.html">BioJSON</a></li>
202 <li>New alignment annotation file statements for
203 reference sequences and marking hidden columns</li>
204 <li>Reference sequence based alignment shading to
205 highlight variation</li>
206 <li>Select or hide columns according to alignment
208 <li>Find option for locating sequences by description</li>
209 <li>Conserved physicochemical properties shown in amino
210 acid conservation row</li>
211 <li>Alignments can be sorted by number of RNA helices</li>
212 </ul> <em>Application</em>
214 <li>New cDNA/Protein analysis capabilities
216 <li>Get Cross-References should open a Split Frame
217 view with cDNA/Protein</li>
218 <li>Detect when nucleotide sequences and protein
219 sequences are placed in the same alignment</li>
220 <li>Split cDNA/Protein views are saved in Jalview
225 <li>Use REST API to talk to Chimera</li>
226 <li>Selected regions in Chimera are highlighted in linked
229 <li>VARNA RNA viewer updated to v3.93</li>
230 <li>VARNA views are saved in Jalview Projects</li>
231 <li>Pseudoknots displayed as Jalview RNA annotation can
232 be shown in VARNA</li>
234 <li>Make groups for selection uses marked columns as well
235 as the active selected region</li>
237 <li>Calculate UPGMA and NJ trees using sequence feature
239 <li>New Export options
241 <li>New Export Settings dialog to control hidden
242 region export in flat file generation</li>
244 <li>Export alignment views for display with the <a
245 href="http://biojs.io/d/msa">BioJS MSAViewer</a></li>
247 <li>Export scrollable SVG in HTML page</li>
248 <li>Optional embedding of BioJSON data when exporting
249 alignment figures to HTML</li>
251 <li>3D structure retrieval and display
253 <li>Free text and structured queries with the PDBe
255 <li>PDBe Search API based discovery and selection of
256 PDB structures for a sequence set</li>
260 <li>JPred4 employed for protein secondary structure
262 <li>Hide Insertions menu option to hide unaligned columns
263 for one or a group of sequences</li>
264 <li>Automatically hide insertions in alignments imported
265 from the JPred4 web server</li>
266 <li>(Nearly) Native 'Quaqua' dialogs for browsing file
267 system on OSX<br />LGPL libraries courtesy of <a
268 href="http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/">http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/</a>
270 <li>changed 'View nucleotide structure' submenu to 'View
271 VARNA 2D Structure'</li>
272 <li>change "View protein structure" menu option to "3D
275 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
277 <li>New layout for applet example pages</li>
278 <li>New parameters to enable SplitFrame view
279 (file2,enableSplitFrame, scaleProteinAsCdna)</li>
280 <li>New example demonstrating linked viewing of cDNA and
281 Protein alignments</li>
282 </ul> <em>Development and deployment</em>
284 <li>Java 1.7 minimum requirement for Jalview 2.9</li>
285 <li>Include installation type and git revision in build
286 properties and console log output</li>
287 <li>Jalview Github organisation, and new github site for
288 storing BioJsMSA Templates</li>
289 <li>Jalview's unit tests now managed with TestNG</li>
292 <!-- <em>General</em>
294 </ul> --> <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
296 <li>Escape should close any open find dialogs</li>
297 <li>Typo in select-by-features status report</li>
298 <li>Consensus RNA secondary secondary structure
299 predictions are not highlighted in amber</li>
300 <li>Missing gap character in v2.7 example file means
301 alignment appears unaligned when pad-gaps is not enabled</li>
302 <li>First switch to RNA Helices colouring doesn't colour
303 associated structure views</li>
304 <li>ID width preference option is greyed out when auto
305 width checkbox not enabled</li>
306 <li>Stopped a warning dialog from being shown when
307 creating user defined colours</li>
308 <li>'View Mapping' in structure viewer shows sequence
309 mappings for just that viewer's sequences</li>
310 <li>Workaround for superposing PDB files containing
311 multiple models in Chimera</li>
312 <li>Report sequence position in status bar when hovering
313 over Jmol structure</li>
314 <li>Cannot output gaps as '.' symbols with Selection ->
315 output to text box</li>
316 <li>Flat file exports of alignments with hidden columns
317 have incorrect sequence start/end</li>
318 <li>'Aligning' a second chain to a Chimera structure from
320 <li>Colour schemes applied to structure viewers don't
321 work for nucleotide</li>
322 <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty or invalid file leads
323 to a grey/invisible alignment window</li>
324 <li>Exported Jpred annotation from a sequence region
325 imports to different position</li>
326 <li>Space at beginning of sequence feature tooltips shown
327 on some platforms</li>
328 <li>Chimera viewer 'View | Show Chain' menu is not
330 <li>'New View' fails with a Null Pointer Exception in
331 console if Chimera has been opened</li>
332 <li>Mouseover to Chimera not working</li>
333 <li>Miscellaneous ENA XML feature qualifiers not
335 <li>NPE in annotation renderer after 'Extract Scores'</li>
336 <li>If two structures in one Chimera window, mouseover of
337 either sequence shows on first structure</li>
338 <li>'Show annotations' options should not make
339 non-positional annotations visible</li>
340 <li>Subsequence secondary structure annotation not shown
341 in right place after 'view flanking regions'</li>
342 <li>File Save As type unset when current file format is
344 <li>Save as '.jar' option removed for saving Jalview
346 <li>Colour by Sequence colouring in Chimera more
348 <li>Cannot 'add reference annotation' for a sequence in
349 several views on same alignment</li>
350 <li>Cannot show linked products for EMBL / ENA records</li>
351 <li>Jalview's tooltip wraps long texts containing no
353 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
355 <li>Jmol to JalviewLite mouseover/link not working</li>
356 <li>JalviewLite can't import sequences with ID
357 descriptions containing angle brackets</li>
358 </ul> <em>General</em>
360 <li>Cannot export and reimport RNA secondary structure
361 via jalview annotation file</li>
362 <li>Random helix colour palette for colour by annotation
363 with RNA secondary structure</li>
364 <li>Mouseover to cDNA from STOP residue in protein
365 translation doesn't work.</li>
366 <li>hints when using the select by annotation dialog box</li>
367 <li>Jmol alignment incorrect if PDB file has alternate CA
369 <li>FontChooser message dialog appears to hang after
370 choosing 1pt font</li>
371 <li>Peptide secondary structure incorrectly imported from
372 annotation file when annotation display text includes 'e' or
374 <li>Cannot set colour of new feature type whilst creating
376 <li>cDNA translation alignment should not be sequence
378 <li>'Show unconserved' doesn't work for lower case
380 <li>Nucleotide ambiguity codes involving R not recognised</li>
381 </ul> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
383 <li>Applet example pages appear different to the rest of
385 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
387 <li>Incomplete sequence extracted from PDB entry 3a6s</li>
388 <li>Misleading message appears after trying to delete
390 <li>Jalview icon not shown in dock after InstallAnywhere
391 version launches</li>
392 <li>Fetching EMBL reference for an RNA sequence results
393 fails with a sequence mismatch</li>
394 <li>Corrupted or unreadable alignment display when
395 scrolling alignment to right</li>
396 <li>ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown when remove
397 empty columns called on alignment with ragged gapped ends</li>
398 <li>auto calculated alignment annotation rows do not get
399 placed above or below non-autocalculated rows</li>
400 <li>Jalview dekstop becomes sluggish at full screen in
401 ultra-high resolution</li>
402 <li>Cannot disable consensus calculation independently of
403 quality and conservation</li>
404 <li>Mouseover highlighting between cDNA and protein can
405 become sluggish with more than one splitframe shown</li>
406 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
408 <li>Core PDB parsing code requires Jmol</li>
409 <li>Sequence canvas panel goes white when alignment
410 window is being resized</li>
416 <td><div align="center">
417 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
421 <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by
423 <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing
424 pairwise alignment</li>
425 <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
426 imported/exported/displayed</li>
427 <li>'colour by annotation' can colour by RNA and
428 protein secondary structure</li>
429 <li>Warn user if 'Find' regular expression is invalid (<em>mentioned
430 post-hoc with 2.9 release</em>)
433 </ul> <em>Application</em>
435 <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences
436 with 3D structures</li>
437 <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
438 <li>Annotations menu for layout
440 <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
441 <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
444 <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
445 <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es)
447 <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
448 <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks
449 shared between alignments</li>
450 <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from
452 <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for
453 all or current selection</li>
454 <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions
455 available as dataset annotation</li>
456 <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
459 <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
460 alignments from Rfam</li>
461 <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
463 <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
464 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
465 <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
466 <li>include installation type in build properties and
467 console log output</li>
468 <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset
472 <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
474 <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
475 structure in structure->view->VARNA</li>
476 <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
478 <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
479 <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
480 <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation
481 selects only first column</li>
482 <li>Redundancy removal doesn't result in unlinked
483 leaves shown in tree</li>
484 <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
486 <li>Hide sequence doesn't hide associated annotation</li>
487 <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on
488 screen and buttons not visible</li>
489 <li>author list isn't updated if already written to
490 Jalview properties</li>
491 <li>Popup menu won't open after retrieving sequence
493 <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn't open</li>
494 <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a
495 browser search window</li>
496 <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu
497 in feature settings dialog</li>
498 <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview
500 <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn't
502 <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to
504 <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by
506 <li>JABAWS preset submenus don't contain newly
507 defined user preset</li>
508 <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched
509 with invalid input</li>
510 <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on
513 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
514 'Superpose with' submenu not shown when new view
518 </ul> <!-- <em>Applet</em>
520 </ul> <em>General</em>
522 </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
524 <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on
525 memory allocation</li>
526 <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
527 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
529 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
530 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java
533 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
536 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
537 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling
541 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
542 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval
543 with large number of ID
546 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
547 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence
551 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
552 rna structure consensus doesn't update when secondary
553 structure tracks are rearranged
556 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
557 invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not
558 highlight position of invalid base pairs
561 <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
562 out of memory errors are not raised when saving Jalview
563 project from alignment window file menu
566 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
567 Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn't propagate to
571 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
572 colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created
573 annotation added to alignment
576 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
577 Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
579 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
582 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
583 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
586 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
587 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
590 <li>Sort by annotation score doesn't reverse order
596 <td><div align="center">
597 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
600 <!-- New features --> <!-- For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
603 <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually
604 called i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
605 <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
606 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
607 <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
608 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
609 <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution
610 percentages shown in logo tooltip.</li>
611 <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
612 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
613 </ul> <em>Application</em>
615 <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure
616 prediction VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
617 <li>Select columns containing particular features from
618 Feature Settings dialog</li>
619 <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
621 <li>Update Jalview project format:
623 <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
624 <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to
625 store secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
626 <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
630 <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
632 <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of
633 flanking regions for an alignment</li>
637 <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
639 <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
640 running after job is cancelled</li>
641 <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
642 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
643 <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take
645 <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't
646 have 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
647 <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
648 annotation shading not saved in Jalview project</li>
649 <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded
651 <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain
653 <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
654 <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
655 <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
656 alignment onto desktop</li>
657 <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
658 'extract scores' function</li>
659 <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
660 alignment window</li>
661 <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after
662 performing IUPred disorder prediction</li>
663 <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
664 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
665 <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
666 nothing matches query</li>
667 <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by
668 feature with lots of groups<!-- possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
670 <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment
671 don't overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
673 <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in
675 <li>JAVAWS version of Jalview fails to launch with
676 'invalid literal/length code'</li>
677 <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied
678 to alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
679 <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default
682 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
684 <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is
686 <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes
687 don't affect groups</li>
688 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid
689 colourscheme name</li>
690 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when
691 Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
692 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and
693 embedded windows</li>
696 <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a
697 single sequence were not calculated</li>
698 <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
699 annotation and junk sequences</li>
700 <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
701 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
702 <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option
703 doesn't affect background (2.8.0b1)
705 <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
706 <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
708 <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not
709 registered correctly on import</li>
710 <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for
711 certain alignments</li>
712 <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an
713 existing annotation based 'use original colours'
714 colourscheme loses original colours setting</li>
719 <td><div align="center">
720 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br />
721 <em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
725 <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
726 Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
727 <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
728 open source project).
730 <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by Uniprot and EBI-search
732 <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
733 <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
734 <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
735 graph thresholds</li>
736 <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
738 <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
739 selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
741 <li>Groovy scripting for headless Jalview operation</li>
742 </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
744 <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
745 <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
746 GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
747 <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick
749 <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
750 <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
751 link but no description</li>
752 <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
753 database fetcher GUI</li>
754 <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
756 <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
761 <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
763 <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
764 secondary structure annotation line</li>
765 <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
766 fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
767 <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
769 <li>View all structures does not always superpose
771 <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
772 reflect user or preset settings</li>
773 <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
774 presets or adjustable parameters</li>
775 <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn't
776 discover PDB xRefs</li>
777 <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
778 features with DAS</li>
779 <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn't coloured
780 when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
781 <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
782 residue follows a gap</li>
783 <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
784 Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
785 <li>'Right click to add annotations' message
786 shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
787 <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
788 annotation already exists on alignment</li>
789 <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
790 initialisation completes</li>
791 <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
792 alignment window display</li>
793 <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
794 <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
795 to annotation file</li>
796 <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
798 <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
799 several 'combine' statements in annotation file</li>
800 <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
801 exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
802 <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn't submit
803 correct partitions for input data</li>
804 <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
805 <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
806 <li>--headless flag isn't understood</li>
807 <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
809 <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
810 changes one row's threshold</li>
811 <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
812 doesn't open</li>
813 <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
814 quality histograms</li>
819 <td><div align="center">
820 <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
822 <td><em>Application</em>
824 <li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
825 conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
826 <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services
828 <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures
829 in Jalview alignment window</li>
830 <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX
831 mountain lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
832 <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports
833 RNA and ambiguity codes</li>
835 <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
836 <li>Support fetching and database reference look up
837 against multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db
839 <li>Jalview project improvements
841 <li>Store and retrieve the 'belowAlignment'
842 flag for annotation</li>
843 <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
845 <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in
850 <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
851 <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is
853 <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
854 <li>visual indication that web service results are still
855 being retrieved from server</li>
856 <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview
857 starts up for first time</li>
858 <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
860 <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS
862 <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
863 InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
864 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
866 <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
867 visualization applet example</li>
868 </ul> <em>General</em>
870 <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
871 <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
873 <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
875 <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
877 <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported
879 <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary
880 structure contacts</li>
881 <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
882 <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
883 <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure
884 information in Stockholm files</li>
885 <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation
886 information presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
887 <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw
888 style RNA alignment files</li>
889 <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
891 <li>'colour by annotation' per sequence option to
892 shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
894 <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
895 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
897 <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
898 <li>New Website!</li>
900 <td><em>Application</em>
902 <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
903 wsdbfetch REST service</li>
904 <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
905 <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart
907 <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS
908 job execution in full once it is complete</li>
909 <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
910 uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
911 <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
912 <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
913 <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
914 submitted for prediction</li>
915 <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
917 <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
918 alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
919 <li>Structure view highlighting doesn't work on
921 <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
923 <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
924 escaped in a platform independent way</li>
925 <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when
927 <li>Tree calculation reports 'you must have 2 or more
928 sequences selected' when selection is empty</li>
929 <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature
930 failure when java web start temporary file caching is
932 <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification
933 results in sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
934 <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments
935 cause progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
936 <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for
937 DAS sources in sequence fetcher</li>
938 <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning
940 <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
941 <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
942 <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
943 <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run
944 on OSX Mountain Lion</li>
945 <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when
946 sequences with alignment annotation are pasted into the
948 <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated
949 when loaded from Jalview project</li>
950 <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
951 <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was
952 cancelled or job failed due to invalid input</li>
953 <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree
954 associated with all views</li>
955 <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
956 annotation rows to new window</li>
957 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
959 <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before
960 they are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
961 <li>loading features via javascript API automatically
962 enables feature display</li>
963 <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn't
965 </ul> <em>General</em>
967 <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
968 <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected
969 and then deselected</li>
970 <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
971 <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
972 coloured with clustalx</li>
973 <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
974 exceptions and redraw errors</li>
975 <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually
976 reconfigured view</li>
977 <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line
979 <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted
980 for lots of labels</li>
986 <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
989 <td><em>Application</em>
991 <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
992 <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
993 <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to
994 easily specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes
995 its colours/correspondences from</li>
996 <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
997 <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations
998 between many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
999 <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
1000 <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes
1001 stored in project file</li>
1002 <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation
1003 rows preserved in Jalview project file</li>
1004 <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is
1005 saved using Desktop window menu</li>
1006 <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are
1007 still being processed</li>
1008 <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
1009 <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
1011 <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
1012 alignment with sequences that have high similarity and
1014 <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
1015 <li>'view structures' option to open many
1016 structures in same window</li>
1017 <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
1018 <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
1019 analysis function in its own submenu</li>
1020 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1022 <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for
1024 <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
1025 <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
1026 <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
1027 <li>'automaticScrolling' parameter</li>
1028 <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
1029 annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
1030 <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
1031 <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
1032 parameters are treated as such</li>
1033 <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
1035 <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
1036 <li>Javascript callbacks for
1038 <li>Applet initialisation</li>
1039 <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
1042 <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling
1044 <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
1045 <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass
1046 messages between Jmol and Jalview when running as
1047 distinct applets</li>
1048 <li>sortBy method</li>
1049 <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped
1050 with documentation</li>
1051 <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
1052 javascript message exchange</li>
1054 </ul> <em>General</em>
1056 <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
1057 multiple alignments</li>
1058 <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
1059 <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
1060 www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
1061 <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
1062 <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment
1063 and other flat files</li>
1064 <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to
1065 contain html tags</li>
1066 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1068 <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to
1070 <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences
1071 using a web service before displaying the result in the
1072 Jalview desktop</li>
1073 <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
1074 <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
1076 <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
1077 <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
1079 <td><em>Application</em>
1081 <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when
1082 current built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
1083 <li>AlignFrame->Save in application pops up save
1084 dialog for valid filename/format</li>
1085 <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
1086 <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence
1088 <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you
1089 which sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
1090 <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query
1091 only matches sequence IDs</li>
1092 <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
1093 <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview
1094 2.4 cannot be loaded</li>
1095 <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart
1097 <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated
1098 with sequences in different alignments do not get coloured
1099 by their associated sequence</li>
1100 <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row
1101 not preserved when project is loaded</li>
1102 <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not
1103 stored in Jalview project</li>
1104 <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a
1105 Jalview project</li>
1106 <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
1107 <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour
1108 by conservation</li>
1109 <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
1110 created on new view</li>
1111 <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after 'show
1112 all hidden annotation rows' option selected</li>
1113 <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment
1114 annotation row is hidden then shown</li>
1115 <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by
1116 sequences in pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
1117 <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out
1119 <li>Web services menu not refreshed after 'reset
1120 services' button is pressed in preferences</li>
1121 <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
1122 <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project
1123 get name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
1124 <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS
1125 job execution in full once it is complete</li>
1126 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1128 <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of
1129 annotation rows are displayed</li>
1130 <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
1132 <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions
1134 <li><= shown as = in tooltip</li>
1135 <li>Export features raises exception when no features
1137 <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs
1138 for javascript api is modified when separator string
1139 provided as parameter</li>
1140 <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
1141 alignment with no existing selection</li>
1142 <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative
1143 to applet's codebase</li>
1144 <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and
1145 search wraps around to first result</li>
1146 <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between
1147 several Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory
1149 <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure
1150 not sent from Jmol in applet</li>
1151 <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to
1152 applet API fatally hang browser</li>
1153 </ul> <em>General</em>
1155 <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond
1156 position with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
1157 <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue
1158 with/without hidden columns</li>
1159 <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window
1161 <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
1162 import PDB like structure files</li>
1163 <li>Positional search results are only highlighted
1164 between user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
1165 <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
1166 <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a
1167 given sequence position</li>
1168 <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment
1170 <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence
1171 from nucleotide chains correctly</li>
1172 <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition
1173 changed in alignment</li>
1174 <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
1175 parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
1176 <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current
1178 <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn't work
1180 <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not
1181 properly associated with their pdb files</li>
1182 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1184 <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by
1185 ApplyCopyright tool</li>
1190 <div align="center">
1191 <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a> </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
1194 <td><em>Application</em>
1196 <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot
1197 contact web services</li>
1198 <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in
1199 service job window</li>
1200 <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
1204 <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a
1205 pir file emitted by Jalview</li>
1206 <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new
1207 alignment view created from cut'n'paste</li>
1208 <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
1209 parsing PDB files</li>
1210 <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows
1211 occasionally become blank for all new windows</li>
1212 <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences
1213 in wrapped view mode</li>
1214 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1216 <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu
1217 usage to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
1218 <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
1219 parameter names</li>
1220 <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server
1227 <div align="center">
1228 <strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br> <em>26/9/2010</em>
1231 <td><em>Application</em>
1233 <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
1234 <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices
1237 <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
1238 <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined
1240 <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
1241 <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence
1243 <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA
1245 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1247 <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the
1248 link out mechanism</li>
1249 </ul> <em>Other</em>
1251 <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol
1253 <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now
1254 require Java 1.5</li>
1255 <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF
1256 sequence annotation files</li>
1257 <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file
1258 type colour specification</li>
1259 <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a
1260 script to check if it being run in an interactive session or
1261 in a batch operation from the Jalview command line</li>
1265 <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when
1266 both D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1267 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1269 <li>typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but
1270 selected Regions menu item</li>
1271 <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is
1272 part of a valid accession ID</li>
1273 <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher
1274 runs out of memory</li>
1275 <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca
1276 analysis results</li>
1277 <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java
1278 10.5 update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
1279 <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
1280 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1282 <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
1283 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are
1290 <div align="center">
1291 <strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br> <em>14/6/2010</em>
1297 <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long
1299 <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when
1300 both D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1301 <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not
1302 import correctly</li>
1303 <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a
1304 number of columns are hidden</li>
1305 <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
1306 add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are
1308 <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats,
1309 and parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
1310 <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage
1311 of all symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
1313 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1315 <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
1317 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1319 <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new
1320 alignment opened where annotation panel is visible but no
1321 annotations are present on alignment</li>
1322 <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is
1323 incorrectly displayed in new alignment window</li>
1324 <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is
1325 flooded (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
1326 <li>typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but
1327 selected Rregions menu item.</li>
1328 <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry
1329 'Un' or 'Non'conserved</li>
1330 <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by
1331 multiple distinct alignments</li>
1332 <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
1334 <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences
1335 does not propagate to associated trees</li>
1336 <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
1338 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop
1339 window background</li>
1340 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application
1341 name set correctly</li>
1342 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the
1343 save feature colourscheme button</li>
1352 <div align="center">
1353 <strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br> <em>30/4/2010</em>
1356 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
1358 <li>URL links generated from description line for
1359 regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
1362 <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link
1364 <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and
1366 <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display
1367 the currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
1368 <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the
1369 average score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
1370 <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
1371 <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of
1372 selected subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
1373 <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to
1374 hide everything but the currently selected region.</li>
1375 <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
1376 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1378 <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to
1379 support retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
1380 <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the
1381 command line or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
1382 <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as
1383 database references and protein_name is parsed as
1384 description line (BioSapiens terms).</li>
1385 <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
1386 references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in
1388 <!-- <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
1389 in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
1390 <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and
1391 conservation plots</li>
1392 <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported
1393 and visualized as sequence logos</li>
1394 <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit
1395 within each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet -->
1397 <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view
1398 when a new tree is opened.</li>
1399 <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
1400 <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving
1401 between different screens.</li>
1402 <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and
1403 consensus annotation</li>
1404 <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to Envision2 Workflows</li>
1405 <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
1407 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive
1408 used to preserve views, structures, and tree display
1410 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via
1412 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and
1413 with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
1414 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1416 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1418 <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1421 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the
1422 associated alignment view by the tree when a new tree is
1424 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide
1425 branch bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1426 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide
1427 branch lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1428 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1429 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree
1431 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) -
1432 increase the height or width of a cell in the alignment
1433 grid relative to the current font size.</li>
1436 <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID
1438 </ul> <em>Other</em>
1440 <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1441 specification of feature scores</li>
1442 <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1443 associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1444 properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1445 <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1446 colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile
1447 visualization settings.</li></td>
1450 <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source
1451 rather than description</li>
1452 <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence
1453 feature and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature
1454 visibility in tooltip).</li>
1455 <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1456 <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1458 <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as
1459 'X' in peptide product</li>
1460 <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both
1461 sequence ID and sequence string and query strings do not
1462 have to be in upper case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1463 <li>AMSA files only contain first column of
1464 multi-character column annotation labels</li>
1465 <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent
1466 with documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be
1467 exported and re-imported)</li>
1468 <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly
1470 <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well
1471 as subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number
1475 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence
1477 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL
1478 link text excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1479 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled
1480 when fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1481 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1482 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via
1484 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all
1486 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval
1487 completes before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1488 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for
1490 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1491 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1492 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered
1493 from Jalview projects.</li>
1502 <div align="center">
1503 <strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br> 28/10/2009
1508 <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage
1510 <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1515 <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in
1517 <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond
1518 length of sequence.</li>
1519 <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1520 <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with
1521 all sequences with a given id</li>
1522 <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence
1523 ID string searches</li>
1524 <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise
1525 alignment to fail with exception</li>
1526 </ul> <em>Application Issues</em>
1528 <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1529 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all
1531 </ul> <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1533 <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update
1534 issue with installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1535 <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere
1536 version (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1543 <div align="center">
1544 <strong>2.4</strong><br> 27/8/2008
1547 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1549 <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from
1550 translation and protein products</li>
1551 <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with
1552 residue mapping to codon position</li>
1553 <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers
1554 and 'clear' button</li>
1555 <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's
1557 <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated
1558 numeric data in description line</li>
1559 <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1560 <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name
1562 </ul> <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1564 <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1565 <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1567 <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from
1569 <li>URL Links created for matching database cross
1570 references as well as sequence ID</li>
1571 <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1572 </ul> <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1574 <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other
1576 <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and
1577 validation to all fetchable databases</li>
1578 <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the
1579 sequence command</li>
1580 </ul> <em>Import and Export</em>
1581 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1582 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations,
1583 EMBL products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1584 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation
1586 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1587 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1588 </ul> <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1590 <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1591 <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS
1592 alignments (experimental)</li>
1593 <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1594 <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1595 </ul> <em>Application command line</em>
1597 <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing
1599 <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames
1600 of DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
1601 <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers
1602 that are also automatically queried for features</li>
1603 <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
1604 script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1605 </ul> <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1607 <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1608 application (when using "View in full
1609 application")</li>
1610 </ul> <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1612 <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1613 <li>debug parameter</li>
1614 <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1615 </ul> <em>Applet API methods</em>
1617 <li>newView public method</li>
1618 <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1619 <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1620 <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1621 </ul> <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1623 <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1624 <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest
1625 Jalview release.</li>
1626 <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1627 property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1628 <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1629 <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1630 <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1631 jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1632 <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and
1633 development version of Application, Applet and source
1638 <li>selected region output includes visible annotations
1639 (for certain formats)</li>
1640 <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char
1642 <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1643 <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1644 <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1645 <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1647 <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1648 filenames containing a ':'</li>
1649 <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing
1650 global sequence features</li>
1651 <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1652 references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1653 <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour
1654 selection causes cascading exceptions</li>
1655 <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1656 <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when
1657 file parsing fails.</li>
1658 <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1659 <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is
1660 not a valid output format</li>
1661 <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and
1663 <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1664 <li>error messages passed up and output when data read
1666 <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when
1667 sequence is edited</li>
1668 <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like
1669 those generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1670 <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal
1672 <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties
1673 import fixed for PFAM records</li>
1674 <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop
1676 <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores
1677 can be read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1678 <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works
1680 <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and
1681 non-italic font for representatives in Applet</li>
1682 <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on
1684 <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in
1686 <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly
1687 due to null pointer exceptions</li>
1688 <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from
1689 first column of alignment</li>
1690 <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in
1692 <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features
1693 file is case-insensitive</li>
1694 <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to
1695 all sequences with matching IDs</li>
1696 <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1697 containing a sub-sequence</li>
1698 <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1699 <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters
1700 referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1701 <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1702 <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for
1703 splash-screen version check to complete</li>
1704 <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values
1705 when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1706 <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1707 retrieved from web service</li>
1708 <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and
1709 sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
1710 <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of
1711 dasobert DAS client</li>
1712 <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file
1714 <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1722 <div align="center">
1723 <strong>2.3</strong><br> 9/5/07
1728 <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1729 <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1730 <li>Slide sequences</li>
1731 <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1732 <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1733 <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1734 <li>Feature ordering</li>
1735 <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1736 <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1737 <li>Sort by scores</li>
1738 <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1743 <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1744 <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1745 <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1746 <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1747 <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1748 <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1749 <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1750 <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1751 <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1752 <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1753 <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1760 <div align="center">
1761 <strong>2.2.1</strong><br> 12/2/07
1766 <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1767 <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the
1769 <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group
1770 name & description
1771 <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in
1773 <li>Annotation file format extended to allow
1774 Sequence_groups to be defined
1775 <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be
1776 specified in preferences
1777 <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1783 <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6
1785 <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1786 <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1792 <div align="center">
1793 <strong>2.2</strong><br> 27/11/06
1798 <li>Multiple views on alignment
1799 <li>Sequence feature editing
1800 <li>"Reload" alignment
1801 <li>"Save" to current filename
1802 <li>Background dependent text colour
1803 <li>Right align sequence ids
1804 <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1807 <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1808 <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1809 <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1810 <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1811 <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1814 <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1819 <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1820 <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1822 <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after
1824 <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end
1826 <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1829 <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions
1831 <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1832 <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service
1834 <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by
1836 <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1837 <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1838 <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1846 <div align="center">
1847 <strong>2.1.1</strong><br> 12/9/06
1852 <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1857 <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if
1858 sequence id panel has been resized</li>
1859 <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are
1861 <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all
1862 elements in file are relative to sequence position</li>
1863 <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1869 <div align="center">
1870 <strong>2.1</strong><br> 22/8/06
1875 <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1876 <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1877 <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1878 <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1879 <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1880 <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB
1882 <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1883 <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1884 <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1885 <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2
1887 <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1888 <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter
1889 "sequence<em>x</em>"
1895 <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1896 <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1897 <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1903 <div align="center">
1904 <strong>2.08.1</strong><br> 2/5/06
1909 <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1910 <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1911 <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress /
1912 expand the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1917 <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1923 <div align="center">
1924 <strong>2.08b</strong><br> 18/4/06
1930 <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1931 <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct
1938 <div align="center">
1939 <strong>2.08</strong><br> 10/4/06
1944 <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1945 <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1946 <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1947 <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto
1949 <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1950 <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1951 <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1952 <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1957 <li>Drag & Drop fixed on Linux</li>
1958 <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
1959 descriptions saved.</li>
1965 <div align="center">
1966 <strong>2.07</strong><br> 12/12/05
1971 <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
1972 <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
1973 <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence
1974 name for file output</li>
1975 <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
1976 <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be
1977 used for HTML form input</li>
1982 <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
1983 <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
1984 <li>File IO bugs</li>
1990 <div align="center">
1991 <strong>2.06</strong><br> 28/9/05
1996 <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
1997 <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
2002 <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
2003 <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
2009 <div align="center">
2010 <strong>2.05b</strong><br> 15/9/05
2015 <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
2016 <li>Jar files are executable</li>
2017 <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
2022 <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
2023 <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
2024 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
2030 <div align="center">
2031 <strong>2.05</strong><br> 30/8/05
2036 <li>Edit and annotate in "Wrapped" view</li>
2041 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
2047 <div align="center">
2048 <strong>2.04</strong><br> 24/8/05
2053 <li>Hold down mouse wheel & scroll to change font
2059 <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
2060 <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
2066 <div align="center">
2067 <strong>2.03</strong><br> 18/8/05
2072 <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
2073 <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
2074 <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added
2076 <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
2077 <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
2078 <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
2079 <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
2084 <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
2090 <div align="center">
2091 <strong>2.02</strong><br> 18/7/05
2097 <li>Copy & Paste order of sequences maintains
2098 alignment order.</li>
2104 <div align="center">
2105 <strong>2.01</strong><br> 12/7/05
2110 <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
2111 <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
2112 <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
2114 <li>Version and build date written to build properties
2116 <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates
2117 at launch of Jalview.</li>
2122 <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
2123 <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
2124 <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
2125 <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
2126 <li>Finder ignores return character when searching.
2127 Return key will initiate a search.<br>
2134 <div align="center">
2135 <strong>2.0</strong><br> 20/6/05
2140 <li>New codebase</li>