3 <title>Release History</title>
6 <p><strong>Release History</strong></p>
10 <div align="center"><em><strong>Release</strong></em></div>
13 <div align="center"><em><strong>New Features</strong></em></div>
16 <div align="center"><em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em></div>
21 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
25 <em>User Interface</em>
27 <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
28 and protein products</li>
29 <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue mapping to codon position</li>
30 <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and 'clear' button</li>
31 <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
32 <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric data in description line</li>
33 <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
34 <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of sequence</li>
36 <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
38 <li>JPred3 web service</li>
39 <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services available yet)</li>
40 <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
41 <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as well as sequence ID</li>
42 <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
44 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
46 <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
48 <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
49 all fetchable databases</li>
50 <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence command</li>
52 <em>Import and Export</em>
53 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
54 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
55 products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
56 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
57 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
59 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
61 <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
62 <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
64 <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
65 <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
67 <em>Application command line</em>
69 <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
71 <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of
72 DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
73 <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that
74 are also automatically queried for features</li>
75 <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
76 script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
78 <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
80 <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
81 application (when using "View in full application")</li>
83 <em>Applet Parameters</em>
85 <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
86 <li>debug parameter</li>
87 <li>showbutton parameter</li>
89 <em>Applet API methods</em>
91 <li>newView public method</li>
92 <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
93 <li>Feature display control methods</li>
94 <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
96 <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
98 <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
99 <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
101 <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
102 property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
103 <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
104 <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
105 <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
106 jalview.bin.Cache</li>
107 <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>
113 <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
114 certain formats)</li>
115 <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
117 <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
118 <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
119 <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
120 <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
122 <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
123 filenames containing a ':'</li>
124 <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
125 sequence features</li>
126 <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
127 references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
128 <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
129 causes cascading exceptions</li>
130 <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
131 <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
133 <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
134 <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a valid output format</li>
135 <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
136 <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
137 <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
138 <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
140 <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
141 generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
142 <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
143 <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import fixed for PFAM records
145 <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window list</li>
146 <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
147 read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
148 <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly
150 <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
151 for representatives in Applet</li>
152 <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
153 <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
154 <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
155 null pointer exceptions</li>
156 <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
157 column of alignment</li>
158 <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July 2008</li>
159 <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is case-insensitive</li>
160 <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all sequences with matching IDs</li>
161 <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views containing a sub-sequence</li>
162 <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
163 <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
164 <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
165 <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen version check to complete</li>
166 <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
167 <li>display name and local features preserved in results retrieved from web service</li>
168 <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
169 <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS client</li>
170 <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
177 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
182 <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
183 <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
184 <li>Slide sequences</li>
185 <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
186 <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
187 <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
188 <li>Feature ordering</li>
189 <li>Alignment Properties</li>
190 <li>Annotation Scores</li>
191 <li>Sort by scores</li>
192 <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
197 <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
198 <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
199 <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
200 <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
201 <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
202 <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
203 <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
204 <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
205 <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
206 <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
207 <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
214 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
219 <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
220 <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
222 <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
224 <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
225 <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
227 <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
229 <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
235 <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
236 <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
237 <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
243 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
248 <li>Multiple views on alignment
249 <li>Sequence feature editing
250 <li>"Reload" alignment
251 <li>"Save" to current filename
252 <li>Background dependent text colour
253 <li>Right align sequence ids
254 <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
257 <li>Menu item accelerator keys
258 <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
259 <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
260 <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
261 <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
262 <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
267 <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
268 <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
270 <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
271 <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
273 <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
274 <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
276 <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
277 <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
279 <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by ∣
280 <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
281 <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
282 <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
288 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
293 <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
298 <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
299 id panel has been resized</li>
300 <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
301 <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
302 file are relative to sequence position</li>
303 <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
309 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
314 <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
315 <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
316 <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
317 <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
318 <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
319 <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
320 <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
321 <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
322 <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
323 <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
324 <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
325 <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter "sequence<em>x</em>"</li>
330 <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
331 <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
332 <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
338 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
343 <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
344 <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
345 <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
346 the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
351 <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
357 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
363 <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
364 <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
370 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
375 <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
376 <li>Keyboard editing</li>
377 <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
378 <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
379 <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
380 <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
381 <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
382 <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
387 <li>Drag & Drop fixed on Linux</li>
388 <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
389 descriptions saved.</li>
395 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
400 <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
401 <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
402 <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
404 <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
405 <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
411 <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
412 <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
413 <li>File IO bugs</li>
419 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
424 <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
425 <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
430 <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
431 <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
437 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
442 <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
443 <li>Jar files are executable</li>
444 <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
449 <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
450 <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
451 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
457 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
462 <li>Edit and annotate in "Wrapped" view</li>
467 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
473 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
478 <li>Hold down mouse wheel & scroll to change font size</li>
483 <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
484 <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
490 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
495 <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
496 <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
497 <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
499 <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
500 <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
501 <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
502 <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
507 <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
513 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
519 <li>Copy & Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
526 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
531 <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
532 <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
533 <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
535 <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
536 <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
537 launch of Jalview.</li>
542 <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
543 <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
544 <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
545 <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
546 <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
547 will initiate a search.<br>
554 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
559 <li>New codebase</li>