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