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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.2.10.0">2.10.0</a><br /> <em>27/9/2016</em></strong>
55 <li><!-- JAL-2164,JAL-1919,-->Jmol now primary parser for importing structure data to Jalview. Enables mmCIF and better PDB parsing.</li>
56 <li><!-- JAL-192 --->Alignment ruler shows positions relative to reference sequence</li>
57 <li><!-- JAL-2202 -->Position/residue shown in status bar when mousing over sequence associated annotation</li>
58 <li><!-- JAL-2171 -->Default RNA SS symbol to 'matching bracket' for manual entry</li>
59 <li><!-- JAL-2214 -->RNA Structure consensus indicates wc-only '()', canonical '[]' and invalid '{}' base pair populations for each column</li>
60 <li><!-- JAL-2092 -->Feature settings popup menu options for showing or hiding columns containing a feature</li>
61 <li><!-- JAL-1557 -->Edit selected group by double clicking on group and sequence associated annotation labels</li>
62 </ul> <em>Application</em>
68 <li><!-- JAL-2079 -->Updated download sites used for Rfam and Pfam sources to xfam.org</li>
69 <li><!-- JAL-2084 -->Disabled Rfam(Full) in the sequence fetcher</li>
70 <li><!-- JAL-2123 -->Show residue labels in Chimera when mousing over sequences in Jalview</li>
71 <li><!-- JAL-2027-->Support for reverse-complement coding regions in ENA and EMBL</li>
72 <li><!-- JAL-1855, JAL-2113, JAL-2114-->Upgrade to EMBL XML 1.2 for ENA record retrieval</li>
73 <li><!-- JAL-2027 -->Support for ENA CDS records with reverse complement operator</li>
74 <li><!-- JAL-1812 -->New 'execute Groovy script' option in an alignment window's Calculate menu</li>
75 <li><!-- JAL-1812 -->Allow groovy scripts that call Jalview.getAlignFrames() to run in headless mode</li>
76 <li><!-- JAL-2068 -->Support for creating new alignment calculation workers from groovy scripts</li>
77 <li><!-- JAL-1369 --->Store/restore reference sequence in Jalview projects</li>
78 <li><!-- JAL-1803-->Chain codes for a sequence's PDB associations are now saved/restored from project</li>
79 <li><!-- JAL-2183-->Double click on an entry in Jalview's database chooser opens a sequence fetcher</li>
80 <li><!-- JAL-1563-->Free-text search client for UniProt using the UniProt REST API</li>
91 <li><!-- JAL-2077 -->reinstate CTRL-click for opening pop-up menu on OSX</li>
92 <li><!-- JAL-2018-->Export features in Jalview format (again) includes graduated colourschemes</li>
93 <li><!-- JAL-1722, JAL-2001-->More responsive when working with big alignments and lots of hidden columns</li>
94 <li><!-- JAL-2053-->Hidden column markers not always rendered at right of alignment window</li>
95 <li><!-- JAL-2067, JAL- -->Tidied up links in help file table of contents</li>
96 <li><!-- JAL-2072 -->Feature based tree calculation not shown for DNA alignments</li>
97 <li><!-- JAL-2075 -->Hidden columns ignored during feature based tree calculation</li>
98 <li><!-- JAL-2065 -->Alignment view stops updating when show unconserved enabled for group on alignment</li>
99 <li><!-- JAL-2086 -->Cannot insert gaps into sequence when set as reference</li>
100 <li><!-- JAL-2146 -->Alignment column in status incorrectly shown as "Sequence position" when mousing over annotation</li>
101 <li><!-- JAL-2099 -->Incorrect column numbers in ruler when hidden columns present</li>
102 <li><!-- JAL-1577 -->Colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created annotation added to alignment</li>
103 <li><!-- JAL-1841 -->RNA Structure consensus only computed for '()' base pair annotation</li>
104 <li><!-- JAL-2215, JAL-1841 -->Enabling 'Ignore Gaps' results in zero scores for all base pairs in RNA Structure Consensus</li>
105 <li><!-- JAL-2174-->Extend selection with columns containing feature not working</li>
111 <li><!-- JAL-1944 not yet fixed Error thrown when exporting a view with hidden sequences as flat-file alignment--></li>
112 <li><!-- JAL-1911-->Corrupt preferences for SVG, EPS & HTML output when running on non-gb/us i18n platforms</li>
113 <li><!-- JAL-1552-->URLs and links can imported by drag'n'drop on OSX webstart</li>
114 <li><!-- JAL-2030-->InstallAnywhere distribution fails when launching Chimera</li>
115 <li><!-- JAL-2080-->Jalview very slow to launch via webstart (also hotfix for 2.9.0b2)</li>
116 <li><!-- JAL-2085 -->Cannot save project when view has a reference sequence defined</li>
117 <li><!-- JAL-1011 -->Columns are suddenly selected in other alignments and views when revealing hidden columns</li>
118 <li><!-- JAL-1989 -->Hide columns not mirrored in complement view in a cDNA/Protein splitframe</li>
119 <li><!-- JAL-1369 -->Cannot save/restore representative sequence from project when only one sequence is represented</li>
120 <li><!-- JAL-2002 -->Disabled 'Best Uniprot Coverage' option in Structure Chooser</li>
121 <li><!-- JAL-2215 -->Modifying 'Ignore Gaps' on consensus or structure consensus didn't refresh annotation panel</li>
122 <!-- may exclude, this is an external service stability issue JAL-1941 /> RNA 3D structure not added via DSSR service</li> -->
132 <td width="60" nowrap>
134 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.0b2">2.9.0b2</a><br />
135 <em>16/10/2015</em></strong>
140 <li>Time stamps for signed Jalview application and applet
147 <li>Duplicate group consensus and conservation rows
148 shown when tree is partitioned</li>
149 <li>Erratic behaviour when tree partitions made with
150 multiple cDNA/Protein split views</li>
156 <td width="60" nowrap>
158 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9.0b1">2.9.0b1</a><br />
159 <em>8/10/2015</em></strong>
164 <li>Updated Spanish translations of localized text for
166 </ul> <em>Application</em>
168 <!-- <li>cDNA/Protein splitframe window geometry preserved in Jalview projects</li>-->
169 <li>Signed OSX InstallAnywhere installer<br></li>
170 <li>Support for per-sequence based annotations in BioJSON</li>
171 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
173 <li>Split frame example added to applet examples page</li>
179 <li>Mapping of cDNA to protein in split frames
180 incorrect when sequence start > 1</li>
181 <li>Broken images in filter column by annotation dialog
183 <li>Feature colours not parsed from features file</li>
184 <li>Exceptions and incomplete link URLs recovered when
185 loading a features file containing HTML tags in feature
191 <li>Annotations corrupted after BioJS export and
193 <li>Incorrect sequence limits after Fetch DB References
194 with 'trim retrieved sequences'</li>
195 <li>Incorrect warning about deleting all data when
196 deleting selected columns</li>
197 <li>Patch to build system for shipping properly signed
198 JNLP templates for webstart launch</li>
199 <li>EMBL-PDBe fetcher/viewer dialogs do not offer
200 unreleased structures for download or viewing</li>
201 <li>Tab/space/return keystroke operation of EMBL-PDBe
202 fetcher/viewer dialogs works correctly</li>
203 <li>Disabled 'minimise' button on Jalview windows
204 running on OSX to workaround redraw hang bug</li>
205 <li>Split cDNA/Protein view position and geometry not
206 recovered from jalview project</li>
207 <li>Initial enabled/disabled state of annotation menu
208 sorter 'show autocalculated first/last' corresponds to
210 <li>Restoring of Clustal, RNA Helices and T-Coffee
211 color schemes from BioJSON</li>
215 <li>Reorder sequences mirrored in cDNA/Protein split
217 <li>Applet with Jmol examples not loading correctly</li>
223 <td><div align="center">
224 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9">2.9</a><br /> <em>10/9/2015</em></strong>
228 <li>Linked visualisation and analysis of DNA and Protein
231 <li>Translated cDNA alignments shown as split protein
232 and DNA alignment views</li>
233 <li>Codon consensus annotation for linked protein and
234 cDNA alignment views</li>
235 <li>Link cDNA or Protein product sequences by loading
236 them onto Protein or cDNA alignments</li>
237 <li>Reconstruct linked cDNA alignment from aligned
238 protein sequences</li>
241 <li>Jmol integration updated to Jmol v14.2.14</li>
242 <li>Import and export of Jalview alignment views as <a
243 href="features/bioJsonFormat.html">BioJSON</a></li>
244 <li>New alignment annotation file statements for
245 reference sequences and marking hidden columns</li>
246 <li>Reference sequence based alignment shading to
247 highlight variation</li>
248 <li>Select or hide columns according to alignment
250 <li>Find option for locating sequences by description</li>
251 <li>Conserved physicochemical properties shown in amino
252 acid conservation row</li>
253 <li>Alignments can be sorted by number of RNA helices</li>
254 </ul> <em>Application</em>
256 <li>New cDNA/Protein analysis capabilities
258 <li>Get Cross-References should open a Split Frame
259 view with cDNA/Protein</li>
260 <li>Detect when nucleotide sequences and protein
261 sequences are placed in the same alignment</li>
262 <li>Split cDNA/Protein views are saved in Jalview
267 <li>Use REST API to talk to Chimera</li>
268 <li>Selected regions in Chimera are highlighted in linked
271 <li>VARNA RNA viewer updated to v3.93</li>
272 <li>VARNA views are saved in Jalview Projects</li>
273 <li>Pseudoknots displayed as Jalview RNA annotation can
274 be shown in VARNA</li>
276 <li>Make groups for selection uses marked columns as well
277 as the active selected region</li>
279 <li>Calculate UPGMA and NJ trees using sequence feature
281 <li>New Export options
283 <li>New Export Settings dialog to control hidden
284 region export in flat file generation</li>
286 <li>Export alignment views for display with the <a
287 href="http://msa.biojs.net/">BioJS MSAViewer</a></li>
289 <li>Export scrollable SVG in HTML page</li>
290 <li>Optional embedding of BioJSON data when exporting
291 alignment figures to HTML</li>
293 <li>3D structure retrieval and display
295 <li>Free text and structured queries with the PDBe
297 <li>PDBe Search API based discovery and selection of
298 PDB structures for a sequence set</li>
302 <li>JPred4 employed for protein secondary structure
304 <li>Hide Insertions menu option to hide unaligned columns
305 for one or a group of sequences</li>
306 <li>Automatically hide insertions in alignments imported
307 from the JPred4 web server</li>
308 <li>(Nearly) Native 'Quaqua' dialogs for browsing file
309 system on OSX<br />LGPL libraries courtesy of <a
310 href="http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/">http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/</a>
312 <li>changed 'View nucleotide structure' submenu to 'View
313 VARNA 2D Structure'</li>
314 <li>change "View protein structure" menu option to "3D
317 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
319 <li>New layout for applet example pages</li>
320 <li>New parameters to enable SplitFrame view
321 (file2,enableSplitFrame, scaleProteinAsCdna)</li>
322 <li>New example demonstrating linked viewing of cDNA and
323 Protein alignments</li>
324 </ul> <em>Development and deployment</em>
326 <li>Java 1.7 minimum requirement for Jalview 2.9</li>
327 <li>Include installation type and git revision in build
328 properties and console log output</li>
329 <li>Jalview Github organisation, and new github site for
330 storing BioJsMSA Templates</li>
331 <li>Jalview's unit tests now managed with TestNG</li>
334 <!-- <em>General</em>
336 </ul> --> <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
338 <li>Escape should close any open find dialogs</li>
339 <li>Typo in select-by-features status report</li>
340 <li>Consensus RNA secondary secondary structure
341 predictions are not highlighted in amber</li>
342 <li>Missing gap character in v2.7 example file means
343 alignment appears unaligned when pad-gaps is not enabled</li>
344 <li>First switch to RNA Helices colouring doesn't colour
345 associated structure views</li>
346 <li>ID width preference option is greyed out when auto
347 width checkbox not enabled</li>
348 <li>Stopped a warning dialog from being shown when
349 creating user defined colours</li>
350 <li>'View Mapping' in structure viewer shows sequence
351 mappings for just that viewer's sequences</li>
352 <li>Workaround for superposing PDB files containing
353 multiple models in Chimera</li>
354 <li>Report sequence position in status bar when hovering
355 over Jmol structure</li>
356 <li>Cannot output gaps as '.' symbols with Selection ->
357 output to text box</li>
358 <li>Flat file exports of alignments with hidden columns
359 have incorrect sequence start/end</li>
360 <li>'Aligning' a second chain to a Chimera structure from
362 <li>Colour schemes applied to structure viewers don't
363 work for nucleotide</li>
364 <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty or invalid file leads
365 to a grey/invisible alignment window</li>
366 <li>Exported Jpred annotation from a sequence region
367 imports to different position</li>
368 <li>Space at beginning of sequence feature tooltips shown
369 on some platforms</li>
370 <li>Chimera viewer 'View | Show Chain' menu is not
372 <li>'New View' fails with a Null Pointer Exception in
373 console if Chimera has been opened</li>
374 <li>Mouseover to Chimera not working</li>
375 <li>Miscellaneous ENA XML feature qualifiers not
377 <li>NPE in annotation renderer after 'Extract Scores'</li>
378 <li>If two structures in one Chimera window, mouseover of
379 either sequence shows on first structure</li>
380 <li>'Show annotations' options should not make
381 non-positional annotations visible</li>
382 <li>Subsequence secondary structure annotation not shown
383 in right place after 'view flanking regions'</li>
384 <li>File Save As type unset when current file format is
386 <li>Save as '.jar' option removed for saving Jalview
388 <li>Colour by Sequence colouring in Chimera more
390 <li>Cannot 'add reference annotation' for a sequence in
391 several views on same alignment</li>
392 <li>Cannot show linked products for EMBL / ENA records</li>
393 <li>Jalview's tooltip wraps long texts containing no
395 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
397 <li>Jmol to JalviewLite mouseover/link not working</li>
398 <li>JalviewLite can't import sequences with ID
399 descriptions containing angle brackets</li>
400 </ul> <em>General</em>
402 <li>Cannot export and reimport RNA secondary structure
403 via jalview annotation file</li>
404 <li>Random helix colour palette for colour by annotation
405 with RNA secondary structure</li>
406 <li>Mouseover to cDNA from STOP residue in protein
407 translation doesn't work.</li>
408 <li>hints when using the select by annotation dialog box</li>
409 <li>Jmol alignment incorrect if PDB file has alternate CA
411 <li>FontChooser message dialog appears to hang after
412 choosing 1pt font</li>
413 <li>Peptide secondary structure incorrectly imported from
414 annotation file when annotation display text includes 'e' or
416 <li>Cannot set colour of new feature type whilst creating
418 <li>cDNA translation alignment should not be sequence
420 <li>'Show unconserved' doesn't work for lower case
422 <li>Nucleotide ambiguity codes involving R not recognised</li>
423 </ul> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
425 <li>Applet example pages appear different to the rest of
427 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
429 <li>Incomplete sequence extracted from PDB entry 3a6s</li>
430 <li>Misleading message appears after trying to delete
432 <li>Jalview icon not shown in dock after InstallAnywhere
433 version launches</li>
434 <li>Fetching EMBL reference for an RNA sequence results
435 fails with a sequence mismatch</li>
436 <li>Corrupted or unreadable alignment display when
437 scrolling alignment to right</li>
438 <li>ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown when remove
439 empty columns called on alignment with ragged gapped ends</li>
440 <li>auto calculated alignment annotation rows do not get
441 placed above or below non-autocalculated rows</li>
442 <li>Jalview dekstop becomes sluggish at full screen in
443 ultra-high resolution</li>
444 <li>Cannot disable consensus calculation independently of
445 quality and conservation</li>
446 <li>Mouseover highlighting between cDNA and protein can
447 become sluggish with more than one splitframe shown</li>
448 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
450 <li>Core PDB parsing code requires Jmol</li>
451 <li>Sequence canvas panel goes white when alignment
452 window is being resized</li>
458 <td><div align="center">
459 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
463 <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by
465 <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing
466 pairwise alignment</li>
467 <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
468 imported/exported/displayed</li>
469 <li>'colour by annotation' can colour by RNA and
470 protein secondary structure</li>
471 <li>Warn user if 'Find' regular expression is invalid (<em>mentioned
472 post-hoc with 2.9 release</em>)
475 </ul> <em>Application</em>
477 <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences
478 with 3D structures</li>
479 <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
480 <li>Annotations menu for layout
482 <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
483 <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
486 <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
487 <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es)
489 <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
490 <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks
491 shared between alignments</li>
492 <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from
494 <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for
495 all or current selection</li>
496 <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions
497 available as dataset annotation</li>
498 <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
501 <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
502 alignments from Rfam</li>
503 <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
505 <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
506 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
507 <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
508 <li>include installation type in build properties and
509 console log output</li>
510 <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset
514 <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
516 <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
517 structure in structure->view->VARNA</li>
518 <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
520 <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
521 <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
522 <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation
523 selects only first column</li>
524 <li>Redundancy removal doesn't result in unlinked
525 leaves shown in tree</li>
526 <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
528 <li>Hide sequence doesn't hide associated annotation</li>
529 <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on
530 screen and buttons not visible</li>
531 <li>author list isn't updated if already written to
532 Jalview properties</li>
533 <li>Popup menu won't open after retrieving sequence
535 <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn't open</li>
536 <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a
537 browser search window</li>
538 <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu
539 in feature settings dialog</li>
540 <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview
542 <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn't
544 <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to
546 <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by
548 <li>JABAWS preset submenus don't contain newly
549 defined user preset</li>
550 <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched
551 with invalid input</li>
552 <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on
555 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
556 'Superpose with' submenu not shown when new view
560 </ul> <!-- <em>Applet</em>
562 </ul> <em>General</em>
564 </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
566 <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on
567 memory allocation</li>
568 <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
569 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
571 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
572 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java
575 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
578 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
579 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling
583 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
584 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval
585 with large number of ID
588 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
589 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence
593 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
594 rna structure consensus doesn't update when secondary
595 structure tracks are rearranged
598 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
599 invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not
600 highlight position of invalid base pairs
603 <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
604 out of memory errors are not raised when saving Jalview
605 project from alignment window file menu
608 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
609 Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn't propagate to
613 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
614 colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created
615 annotation added to alignment
618 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
619 Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
621 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
624 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
625 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
628 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
629 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
632 <li>Sort by annotation score doesn't reverse order
638 <td><div align="center">
639 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
642 <!-- New features --> <!-- For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
645 <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually
646 called i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
647 <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
648 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
649 <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
650 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
651 <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution
652 percentages shown in logo tooltip.</li>
653 <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
654 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
655 </ul> <em>Application</em>
657 <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure
658 prediction VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
659 <li>Select columns containing particular features from
660 Feature Settings dialog</li>
661 <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
663 <li>Update Jalview project format:
665 <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
666 <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to
667 store secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
668 <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
672 <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
674 <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of
675 flanking regions for an alignment</li>
679 <!-- issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
681 <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
682 running after job is cancelled</li>
683 <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
684 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
685 <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take
687 <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't
688 have 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
689 <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
690 annotation shading not saved in Jalview project</li>
691 <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded
693 <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain
695 <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
696 <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
697 <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
698 alignment onto desktop</li>
699 <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
700 'extract scores' function</li>
701 <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
702 alignment window</li>
703 <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after
704 performing IUPred disorder prediction</li>
705 <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
706 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
707 <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
708 nothing matches query</li>
709 <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by
710 feature with lots of groups<!-- possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
712 <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment
713 don't overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
715 <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in
717 <li>JAVAWS version of Jalview fails to launch with
718 'invalid literal/length code'</li>
719 <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied
720 to alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
721 <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default
724 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
726 <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is
728 <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes
729 don't affect groups</li>
730 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid
731 colourscheme name</li>
732 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when
733 Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
734 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and
735 embedded windows</li>
738 <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a
739 single sequence were not calculated</li>
740 <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
741 annotation and junk sequences</li>
742 <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
743 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
744 <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option
745 doesn't affect background (2.8.0b1)
747 <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
748 <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
750 <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not
751 registered correctly on import</li>
752 <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for
753 certain alignments</li>
754 <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an
755 existing annotation based 'use original colours'
756 colourscheme loses original colours setting</li>
761 <td><div align="center">
762 <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br />
763 <em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
767 <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
768 Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
769 <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
770 open source project).
772 <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by UniProt and EBI-search
774 <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
775 <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
776 <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
777 graph thresholds</li>
778 <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
780 <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
781 selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
783 <li>Groovy scripting for headless Jalview operation</li>
784 </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
786 <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
787 <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
788 GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
789 <li>Support '' style escaping of quotes in Newick
791 <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
792 <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
793 link but no description</li>
794 <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
795 database fetcher GUI</li>
796 <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
798 <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
803 <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
805 <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
806 secondary structure annotation line</li>
807 <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
808 fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
809 <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
811 <li>View all structures does not always superpose
813 <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
814 reflect user or preset settings</li>
815 <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
816 presets or adjustable parameters</li>
817 <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn't
818 discover PDB xRefs</li>
819 <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
820 features with DAS</li>
821 <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn't coloured
822 when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
823 <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
824 residue follows a gap</li>
825 <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
826 Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
827 <li>'Right click to add annotations' message
828 shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
829 <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
830 annotation already exists on alignment</li>
831 <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
832 initialisation completes</li>
833 <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
834 alignment window display</li>
835 <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
836 <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
837 to annotation file</li>
838 <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
840 <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
841 several 'combine' statements in annotation file</li>
842 <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
843 exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
844 <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn't submit
845 correct partitions for input data</li>
846 <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
847 <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
848 <li>--headless flag isn't understood</li>
849 <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
851 <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
852 changes one row's threshold</li>
853 <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
854 doesn't open</li>
855 <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
856 quality histograms</li>
861 <td><div align="center">
862 <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
864 <td><em>Application</em>
866 <li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
867 conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
868 <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services
870 <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures
871 in Jalview alignment window</li>
872 <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX
873 mountain lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
874 <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports
875 RNA and ambiguity codes</li>
877 <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
878 <li>Support fetching and database reference look up
879 against multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db
881 <li>Jalview project improvements
883 <li>Store and retrieve the 'belowAlignment'
884 flag for annotation</li>
885 <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
887 <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in
892 <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
893 <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is
895 <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
896 <li>visual indication that web service results are still
897 being retrieved from server</li>
898 <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview
899 starts up for first time</li>
900 <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
902 <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS
904 <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
905 InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
906 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
908 <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
909 visualization applet example</li>
910 </ul> <em>General</em>
912 <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
913 <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
915 <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
917 <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
919 <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported
921 <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary
922 structure contacts</li>
923 <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
924 <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
925 <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure
926 information in Stockholm files</li>
927 <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation
928 information presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
929 <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw
930 style RNA alignment files</li>
931 <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
933 <li>'colour by annotation' per sequence option to
934 shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
936 <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
937 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
939 <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
940 <li>New Website!</li>
942 <td><em>Application</em>
944 <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
945 wsdbfetch REST service</li>
946 <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
947 <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart
949 <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS
950 job execution in full once it is complete</li>
951 <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
952 uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
953 <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
954 <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
955 <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
956 submitted for prediction</li>
957 <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
959 <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
960 alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
961 <li>Structure view highlighting doesn't work on
963 <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
965 <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
966 escaped in a platform independent way</li>
967 <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when
969 <li>Tree calculation reports 'you must have 2 or more
970 sequences selected' when selection is empty</li>
971 <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature
972 failure when java web start temporary file caching is
974 <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification
975 results in sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
976 <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments
977 cause progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
978 <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for
979 DAS sources in sequence fetcher</li>
980 <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning
982 <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
983 <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
984 <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
985 <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run
986 on OSX Mountain Lion</li>
987 <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when
988 sequences with alignment annotation are pasted into the
990 <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated
991 when loaded from Jalview project</li>
992 <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
993 <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was
994 cancelled or job failed due to invalid input</li>
995 <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree
996 associated with all views</li>
997 <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
998 annotation rows to new window</li>
999 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1001 <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before
1002 they are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
1003 <li>loading features via javascript API automatically
1004 enables feature display</li>
1005 <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn't
1007 </ul> <em>General</em>
1009 <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
1010 <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected
1011 and then deselected</li>
1012 <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
1013 <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
1014 coloured with clustalx</li>
1015 <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
1016 exceptions and redraw errors</li>
1017 <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually
1018 reconfigured view</li>
1019 <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line
1021 <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted
1022 for lots of labels</li>
1027 <div align="center">
1028 <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
1031 <td><em>Application</em>
1033 <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
1034 <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
1035 <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to
1036 easily specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes
1037 its colours/correspondences from</li>
1038 <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
1039 <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations
1040 between many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
1041 <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
1042 <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes
1043 stored in project file</li>
1044 <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation
1045 rows preserved in Jalview project file</li>
1046 <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is
1047 saved using Desktop window menu</li>
1048 <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are
1049 still being processed</li>
1050 <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
1051 <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
1053 <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
1054 alignment with sequences that have high similarity and
1056 <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
1057 <li>'view structures' option to open many
1058 structures in same window</li>
1059 <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
1060 <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
1061 analysis function in its own submenu</li>
1062 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1064 <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for
1066 <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
1067 <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
1068 <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
1069 <li>'automaticScrolling' parameter</li>
1070 <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
1071 annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
1072 <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
1073 <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
1074 parameters are treated as such</li>
1075 <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
1077 <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
1078 <li>Javascript callbacks for
1080 <li>Applet initialisation</li>
1081 <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
1084 <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling
1086 <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
1087 <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass
1088 messages between Jmol and Jalview when running as
1089 distinct applets</li>
1090 <li>sortBy method</li>
1091 <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped
1092 with documentation</li>
1093 <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
1094 javascript message exchange</li>
1096 </ul> <em>General</em>
1098 <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
1099 multiple alignments</li>
1100 <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
1101 <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
1102 www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
1103 <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
1104 <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment
1105 and other flat files</li>
1106 <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to
1107 contain html tags</li>
1108 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1110 <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to
1112 <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences
1113 using a web service before displaying the result in the
1114 Jalview desktop</li>
1115 <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
1116 <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
1118 <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
1119 <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
1121 <td><em>Application</em>
1123 <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when
1124 current built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
1125 <li>AlignFrame->Save in application pops up save
1126 dialog for valid filename/format</li>
1127 <li>Cannot view associated structure for UniProt sequence</li>
1128 <li>PDB file association breaks for UniProt sequence
1130 <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you
1131 which sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
1132 <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query
1133 only matches sequence IDs</li>
1134 <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
1135 <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview
1136 2.4 cannot be loaded</li>
1137 <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart
1139 <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated
1140 with sequences in different alignments do not get coloured
1141 by their associated sequence</li>
1142 <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row
1143 not preserved when project is loaded</li>
1144 <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not
1145 stored in Jalview project</li>
1146 <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a
1147 Jalview project</li>
1148 <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
1149 <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour
1150 by conservation</li>
1151 <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
1152 created on new view</li>
1153 <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after 'show
1154 all hidden annotation rows' option selected</li>
1155 <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment
1156 annotation row is hidden then shown</li>
1157 <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by
1158 sequences in pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
1159 <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out
1161 <li>Web services menu not refreshed after 'reset
1162 services' button is pressed in preferences</li>
1163 <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
1164 <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project
1165 get name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
1166 <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS
1167 job execution in full once it is complete</li>
1168 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1170 <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of
1171 annotation rows are displayed</li>
1172 <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
1174 <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions
1176 <li><= shown as = in tooltip</li>
1177 <li>Export features raises exception when no features
1179 <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs
1180 for javascript api is modified when separator string
1181 provided as parameter</li>
1182 <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
1183 alignment with no existing selection</li>
1184 <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative
1185 to applet's codebase</li>
1186 <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and
1187 search wraps around to first result</li>
1188 <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between
1189 several Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory
1191 <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure
1192 not sent from Jmol in applet</li>
1193 <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to
1194 applet API fatally hang browser</li>
1195 </ul> <em>General</em>
1197 <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond
1198 position with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
1199 <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue
1200 with/without hidden columns</li>
1201 <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window
1203 <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
1204 import PDB like structure files</li>
1205 <li>Positional search results are only highlighted
1206 between user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
1207 <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
1208 <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a
1209 given sequence position</li>
1210 <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment
1212 <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence
1213 from nucleotide chains correctly</li>
1214 <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition
1215 changed in alignment</li>
1216 <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
1217 parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
1218 <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current
1220 <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn't work
1222 <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not
1223 properly associated with their pdb files</li>
1224 </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
1226 <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by
1227 ApplyCopyright tool</li>
1232 <div align="center">
1233 <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a> </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
1236 <td><em>Application</em>
1238 <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot
1239 contact web services</li>
1240 <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in
1241 service job window</li>
1242 <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
1246 <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a
1247 pir file emitted by Jalview</li>
1248 <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new
1249 alignment view created from cut'n'paste</li>
1250 <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
1251 parsing PDB files</li>
1252 <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows
1253 occasionally become blank for all new windows</li>
1254 <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences
1255 in wrapped view mode</li>
1256 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1258 <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu
1259 usage to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
1260 <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
1261 parameter names</li>
1262 <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server
1269 <div align="center">
1270 <strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br> <em>26/9/2010</em>
1273 <td><em>Application</em>
1275 <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
1276 <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices
1279 <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
1280 <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined
1282 <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
1283 <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence
1285 <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA
1287 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1289 <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the
1290 link out mechanism</li>
1291 </ul> <em>Other</em>
1293 <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol
1295 <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now
1296 require Java 1.5</li>
1297 <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF
1298 sequence annotation files</li>
1299 <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file
1300 type colour specification</li>
1301 <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a
1302 script to check if it being run in an interactive session or
1303 in a batch operation from the Jalview command line</li>
1307 <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when
1308 both D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1309 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1311 <li>typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but
1312 selected Regions menu item</li>
1313 <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is
1314 part of a valid accession ID</li>
1315 <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher
1316 runs out of memory</li>
1317 <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca
1318 analysis results</li>
1319 <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java
1320 10.5 update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
1321 <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
1322 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1324 <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
1325 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are
1332 <div align="center">
1333 <strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br> <em>14/6/2010</em>
1339 <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long
1341 <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when
1342 both D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
1343 <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not
1344 import correctly</li>
1345 <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a
1346 number of columns are hidden</li>
1347 <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
1348 add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are
1350 <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats,
1351 and parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
1352 <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage
1353 of all symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
1355 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1357 <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
1359 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1361 <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new
1362 alignment opened where annotation panel is visible but no
1363 annotations are present on alignment</li>
1364 <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is
1365 incorrectly displayed in new alignment window</li>
1366 <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is
1367 flooded (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
1368 <li>typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but
1369 selected Rregions menu item.</li>
1370 <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry
1371 'Un' or 'Non'conserved</li>
1372 <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by
1373 multiple distinct alignments</li>
1374 <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
1376 <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences
1377 does not propagate to associated trees</li>
1378 <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
1380 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop
1381 window background</li>
1382 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application
1383 name set correctly</li>
1384 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the
1385 save feature colourscheme button</li>
1394 <div align="center">
1395 <strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br> <em>30/4/2010</em>
1398 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
1400 <li>URL links generated from description line for
1401 regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
1404 <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link
1406 <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and
1408 <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display
1409 the currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
1410 <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the
1411 average score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
1412 <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
1413 <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of
1414 selected subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
1415 <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to
1416 hide everything but the currently selected region.</li>
1417 <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
1418 </ul> <em>Application</em>
1420 <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to
1421 support retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
1422 <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the
1423 command line or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
1424 <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as
1425 database references and protein_name is parsed as
1426 description line (BioSapiens terms).</li>
1427 <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
1428 references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in
1430 <!-- <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
1431 in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
1432 <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and
1433 conservation plots</li>
1434 <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported
1435 and visualized as sequence logos</li>
1436 <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit
1437 within each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet -->
1439 <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view
1440 when a new tree is opened.</li>
1441 <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
1442 <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving
1443 between different screens.</li>
1444 <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and
1445 consensus annotation</li>
1446 <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to Envision2 Workflows</li>
1447 <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
1449 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive
1450 used to preserve views, structures, and tree display
1452 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via
1454 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and
1455 with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
1456 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1458 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
1460 <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1463 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the
1464 associated alignment view by the tree when a new tree is
1466 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide
1467 branch bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1468 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide
1469 branch lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1470 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1471 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree
1473 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) -
1474 increase the height or width of a cell in the alignment
1475 grid relative to the current font size.</li>
1478 <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID
1480 </ul> <em>Other</em>
1482 <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1483 specification of feature scores</li>
1484 <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1485 associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1486 properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1487 <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1488 colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile
1489 visualization settings.</li></td>
1492 <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source
1493 rather than description</li>
1494 <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence
1495 feature and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature
1496 visibility in tooltip).</li>
1497 <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1498 <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1500 <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as
1501 'X' in peptide product</li>
1502 <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both
1503 sequence ID and sequence string and query strings do not
1504 have to be in upper case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1505 <li>AMSA files only contain first column of
1506 multi-character column annotation labels</li>
1507 <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent
1508 with documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be
1509 exported and re-imported)</li>
1510 <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly
1512 <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well
1513 as subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number
1517 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence
1519 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL
1520 link text excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1521 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled
1522 when fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1523 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1524 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via
1526 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all
1528 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval
1529 completes before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1530 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for
1532 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1533 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1534 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered
1535 from Jalview projects.</li>
1544 <div align="center">
1545 <strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br> 28/10/2009
1550 <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage
1552 <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1557 <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in
1559 <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond
1560 length of sequence.</li>
1561 <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1562 <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with
1563 all sequences with a given id</li>
1564 <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence
1565 ID string searches</li>
1566 <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise
1567 alignment to fail with exception</li>
1568 </ul> <em>Application Issues</em>
1570 <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1571 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all
1573 </ul> <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1575 <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update
1576 issue with installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1577 <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere
1578 version (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1585 <div align="center">
1586 <strong>2.4</strong><br> 27/8/2008
1589 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1591 <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from
1592 translation and protein products</li>
1593 <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with
1594 residue mapping to codon position</li>
1595 <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers
1596 and 'clear' button</li>
1597 <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's
1599 <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated
1600 numeric data in description line</li>
1601 <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1602 <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name
1604 </ul> <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1606 <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1607 <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1609 <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from
1611 <li>URL Links created for matching database cross
1612 references as well as sequence ID</li>
1613 <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1614 </ul> <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1616 <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other
1618 <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and
1619 validation to all fetchable databases</li>
1620 <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the
1621 sequence command</li>
1622 </ul> <em>Import and Export</em>
1623 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1624 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations,
1625 EMBL products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1626 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation
1628 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1629 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1630 </ul> <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1632 <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1633 <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS
1634 alignments (experimental)</li>
1635 <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1636 <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1637 </ul> <em>Application command line</em>
1639 <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing
1641 <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames
1642 of DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
1643 <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers
1644 that are also automatically queried for features</li>
1645 <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
1646 script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1647 </ul> <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1649 <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1650 application (when using "View in full
1651 application")</li>
1652 </ul> <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1654 <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1655 <li>debug parameter</li>
1656 <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1657 </ul> <em>Applet API methods</em>
1659 <li>newView public method</li>
1660 <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1661 <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1662 <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1663 </ul> <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1665 <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1666 <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest
1667 Jalview release.</li>
1668 <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1669 property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1670 <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1671 <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1672 <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1673 jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1674 <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and
1675 development version of Application, Applet and source
1680 <li>selected region output includes visible annotations
1681 (for certain formats)</li>
1682 <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char
1684 <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1685 <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1686 <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1687 <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1689 <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1690 filenames containing a ':'</li>
1691 <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing
1692 global sequence features</li>
1693 <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1694 references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1695 <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour
1696 selection causes cascading exceptions</li>
1697 <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1698 <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when
1699 file parsing fails.</li>
1700 <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1701 <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is
1702 not a valid output format</li>
1703 <li>UniProt canonical names introduced for both das and
1705 <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1706 <li>error messages passed up and output when data read
1708 <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when
1709 sequence is edited</li>
1710 <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like
1711 those generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1712 <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal
1714 <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties
1715 import fixed for PFAM records</li>
1716 <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop
1718 <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores
1719 can be read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1720 <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works
1722 <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and
1723 non-italic font for representatives in Applet</li>
1724 <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on
1726 <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in
1728 <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly
1729 due to null pointer exceptions</li>
1730 <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from
1731 first column of alignment</li>
1732 <li>UniProt XML import updated for new schema release in
1734 <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features
1735 file is case-insensitive</li>
1736 <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to
1737 all sequences with matching IDs</li>
1738 <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1739 containing a sub-sequence</li>
1740 <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1741 <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters
1742 referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1743 <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1744 <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for
1745 splash-screen version check to complete</li>
1746 <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values
1747 when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1748 <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1749 retrieved from web service</li>
1750 <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and
1751 sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
1752 <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of
1753 dasobert DAS client</li>
1754 <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file
1756 <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1764 <div align="center">
1765 <strong>2.3</strong><br> 9/5/07
1770 <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1771 <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1772 <li>Slide sequences</li>
1773 <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1774 <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1775 <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1776 <li>Feature ordering</li>
1777 <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1778 <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1779 <li>Sort by scores</li>
1780 <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1785 <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1786 <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1787 <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1788 <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1789 <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1790 <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1791 <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1792 <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1793 <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1794 <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1795 <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1802 <div align="center">
1803 <strong>2.2.1</strong><br> 12/2/07
1808 <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1809 <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the
1811 <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group
1812 name & description
1813 <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in
1815 <li>Annotation file format extended to allow
1816 Sequence_groups to be defined
1817 <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be
1818 specified in preferences
1819 <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1825 <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6
1827 <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1828 <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1834 <div align="center">
1835 <strong>2.2</strong><br> 27/11/06
1840 <li>Multiple views on alignment
1841 <li>Sequence feature editing
1842 <li>"Reload" alignment
1843 <li>"Save" to current filename
1844 <li>Background dependent text colour
1845 <li>Right align sequence ids
1846 <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1849 <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1850 <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1851 <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1852 <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1853 <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1856 <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1861 <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1862 <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1864 <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after
1866 <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end
1868 <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1871 <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions
1873 <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1874 <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service
1876 <li>UniProt ID discoverer uses any word separated by
1878 <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1879 <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1880 <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1888 <div align="center">
1889 <strong>2.1.1</strong><br> 12/9/06
1894 <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1899 <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if
1900 sequence id panel has been resized</li>
1901 <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are
1903 <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all
1904 elements in file are relative to sequence position</li>
1905 <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1911 <div align="center">
1912 <strong>2.1</strong><br> 22/8/06
1917 <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1918 <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1919 <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1920 <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1921 <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1922 <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB
1924 <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1925 <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1926 <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1927 <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2
1929 <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1930 <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter
1931 "sequence<em>x</em>"
1937 <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1938 <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1939 <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1945 <div align="center">
1946 <strong>2.08.1</strong><br> 2/5/06
1951 <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1952 <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1953 <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress /
1954 expand the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1959 <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1965 <div align="center">
1966 <strong>2.08b</strong><br> 18/4/06
1972 <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1973 <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct
1980 <div align="center">
1981 <strong>2.08</strong><br> 10/4/06
1986 <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1987 <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1988 <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1989 <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto
1991 <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1992 <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1993 <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1994 <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1999 <li>Drag & Drop fixed on Linux</li>
2000 <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
2001 descriptions saved.</li>
2007 <div align="center">
2008 <strong>2.07</strong><br> 12/12/05
2013 <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
2014 <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
2015 <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence
2016 name for file output</li>
2017 <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
2018 <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be
2019 used for HTML form input</li>
2024 <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
2025 <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
2026 <li>File IO bugs</li>
2032 <div align="center">
2033 <strong>2.06</strong><br> 28/9/05
2038 <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
2039 <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
2044 <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
2045 <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
2051 <div align="center">
2052 <strong>2.05b</strong><br> 15/9/05
2057 <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
2058 <li>Jar files are executable</li>
2059 <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
2064 <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
2065 <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
2066 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
2072 <div align="center">
2073 <strong>2.05</strong><br> 30/8/05
2078 <li>Edit and annotate in "Wrapped" view</li>
2083 <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
2089 <div align="center">
2090 <strong>2.04</strong><br> 24/8/05
2095 <li>Hold down mouse wheel & scroll to change font
2101 <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
2102 <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
2108 <div align="center">
2109 <strong>2.03</strong><br> 18/8/05
2114 <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
2115 <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
2116 <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added
2118 <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
2119 <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
2120 <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
2121 <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
2126 <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
2132 <div align="center">
2133 <strong>2.02</strong><br> 18/7/05
2139 <li>Copy & Paste order of sequences maintains
2140 alignment order.</li>
2146 <div align="center">
2147 <strong>2.01</strong><br> 12/7/05
2152 <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
2153 <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
2154 <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
2156 <li>Version and build date written to build properties
2158 <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates
2159 at launch of Jalview.</li>
2164 <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
2165 <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
2166 <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
2167 <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
2168 <li>Finder ignores return character when searching.
2169 Return key will initiate a search.<br>
2176 <div align="center">
2177 <strong>2.0</strong><br> 20/6/05
2182 <li>New codebase</li>