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