Release History

Release
New Features
Issues Resolved
2.8
08/11/2012
Application
  • Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)
  • JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services preferences
  • VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in Jalview alignment window
  • Updated jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain lion, windows 7, and 8
  • Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA and ambiguity codes
  • Improved sequence database retrieval GUI
  • Support fetching and database reference look up against multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')
  • Jalview project improvements
    • Store and retrieve the 'belowAlignment' flag for annotation
    • calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the alignment
    • Store AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview project
  • horizontal scrolling gesture support
  • Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running
  • Simpler JABA web services menus
  • visual indication that web service results are still being retrieved from server
  • Serialise the dialogs that are shown when jalview starts up for first time
  • Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP services
  • DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client library
  • Examples directory and Groovy library included in InstallAnywhere distribution
  • Applet
    • RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation visualization applet example
    General
    • Normalise option for consensus sequence logo
    • Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to defaults
    • Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA calculation
    • PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution matrices
    • Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported in HTML
    • Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary structure contacts
    • RNA Helix Alignment Colouring
    • RNA base pair logo consensus
    • Parse sequence associated secondary structure information in Stockholm files
    • HTML Export database accessions and annotation information presented in tooltip for sequences
    • Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA alignment files
    • import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an alignment
    • 'colour by annotation' per sequence option to shade each sequence according to its associated alignment annotation
    • New Jalview Logo
    Documentation and Development
    • documentation for score matrices used in Jalview
    • New Website!
    Application
    • PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via wsdbfetch REST service
    • Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
    • Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch
    • Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in full once it is complete
    • revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is uploaded via ali_file parameter
    • Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2
    • View all structures superposed fails with exception
    • Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for prediction
    • Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on desktop window
    • Putting fractional value into integer text box in alignment parameter dialog causes jalview to hang
    • Structure view highlighting doesn't work on windows 7
    • View all structures fails with exception shown in structure view
    • Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not escaped in a platform independent way
    • Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
    • Tree calculation reports 'you must have 2 or more sequences selected' when selection is empty
    • Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure when java web start temporary file caching is disabled
    • DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence xref which includes range qualification
    • Errors during processing of command line arguments cause progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed
    • Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS sources in sequence fetcher
    • Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
    • Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings
    • Edited sequence not submitted to web service
    • Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion
    • InstallAnywhere installer doesn't unpack and run on OSX Mountain Lion
    • Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment annotation are pasted into the alignment
    • Sequence associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview project
    • Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
    • JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled or job failed due to invalid input
    • NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated with all views
    • Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new window
    Applet
    • Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
    • loading features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
    • scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn't work
    General
    • Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment
    • PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected and then deselected
    • PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
    • Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with clustalx
    • Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw errors
    • Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view
    • Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line colour
    • Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted for lots of labels
    2.7
    27/09/2011
    Application
    • Jalview Desktop News Reader
    • Tweaked default layout of web services menu
    • View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its colours/correspondences from
    • Allow properties file location to be specified as URL
    • Extend jalview project to preserve associations between many alignment views and a single Jmol display
    • Store annotation row height in jalview project file
    • Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored in project file
    • Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows preserved in jalview project file
    • Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved using Desktop window menu
    • Visual indication that command line arguments are still being processed
    • Groovy script execution from URL
    • Colour by annotation default min and max colours in preferences
    • Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching IDs
    • Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)
    • 'view structures' option to open many structures in same window
    • Sort associated views menu option for tree panel
    • Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular analysis function in its own submenu
    Applet
    • Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups
    • Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height
    • Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel
    • Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel
    • 'automaticScrolling' parameter
    • Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be annotated from GFF/jalview features files
    • Sequence logo annotation row in applet
    • Absolute paths relative to host server in applet parameters are treated as such
    • New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
      • JalviewLite.js javascript library
      • Javascript callbacks for
        • Applet initialisation
        • Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections
      • scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions
      • Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript
      • javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets
      • sortBy method
      • Set of applet and application examples shipped with documentation
      • New example to demonstrate jalviewLite and Jmol javascript message exchange
    General
    • Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple multiple alignments
    • Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree
    • User configurable link to enable redirects to a www.jalview.org mirror
    • Jmol colours option for Jmol displays
    • Configurable newline string when writing alignment and other flat files
    • Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain html tags
    Documentation and Development
    • Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
    • Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop
    • Restructured javascript and applet api documentation
    • Ant target to publish example html files with applet archive
    • Netbeans project for building jalview from source
    • ant task to create online javadoc for jalview source
    Application
    • User defined colourscheme throws exception when current built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme
    • AlignFrame->Save in application pops up save dialog for valid filename/format
    • Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence
    • PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173
    • Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which sequence is to be associated with the file
    • Find All raises null pointer exception when query only matches sequence IDs
    • Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6
    • Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4 cannot be loaded
    • Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch
    • Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their associated sequence
    • Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not preserved when project is loaded
    • Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored in jalview project
    • Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a jalview project
    • Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted
    • Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by conservation
    • Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus created on new view
    • Annotation scrollbar not displayed after 'show all hidden annotation rows' option selected
    • Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation row is hidden then shown
    • Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in pre jalview 2.7 projects
    • Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
    • Web services menu not refreshed after 'reset services' button is pressed in preferences
    • Annotation off by one in jalview v2_3 example project
    • Structures imported from file and saved in project get name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded
    • Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in full once it is complete
    Applet
    • Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation rows are displayed
    • Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to codebase
    • View follows highlighting does not work for positions in sequences
    • <= shown as = in tooltip
    • Export features raises exception when no features exist
    • Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for javascript api is modified when separator string provided as parameter
    • Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for alignment with no existing selection
    • Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to applet's codebase
    • Status bar not updated after finished searching and search wraps around to first result
    • StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks
    • Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not sent from Jmol in applet
    • Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API fatally hang browser
    General
    • View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position with wrapped view and hidden regions
    • Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without hidden columns
    • Sequence length given in alignment properties window is off by 1
    • InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to import PDB like structure files
    • Positional search results are only highlighted between user-supplied sequence start/end bounds
    • End attribute of sequence is not validated
    • Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given sequence position
    • Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output
    • Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from nucleotide chains correctly
    • Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed in alignment
    • Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly parsed in interleaved stockholm
    • Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
    • Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn't work properly
    • Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly associated with their pdb files
    Documentation and Development
    • schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright tool
    2.6.1
    15/11/2010
    Application
    • New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot contact web services
    • JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in service job window
    • JABA Service menu entries reworded
    • Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a pir file emitted by jalview
    • Existing feature settings transferred to new alignment view created from cut'n'paste
    • Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when parsing PDB files
    • Consensus and conservation annotation rows occasionally become blank for all new windows
    • Exception raised when right clicking above sequences in wrapped view mode
    Application
    • multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu usage to hit 100% and computer to hang
    • Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user parameter names
    • Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server is down
    2.6
    26/9/2010
    Application
    • Support for Java bioinformatics analysis web services (JABAWS)
    • Web Services preference tab
    • Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined preferences
    • Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu
    • Superpose structures using associated sequence alignment
    • Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer
    Applet
    • enable javascript: execution by the applet via the link out mechanism
    Other
    • Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol series 12
    • The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now require Java 1.5
    • Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF sequence annotation files
    • New 'colour by label' keword in jalview feature file type colour specification
    • New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a script to check if it being run in an interactive session or in a batch operation from the jalview command line
    • clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both D+E are present in over 50% of the column
    Application
    • typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but selected Regions menu item
    • sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is part of a valid accession ID
    • fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher runs out of memory
    • unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca analysis results
    • InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5 update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)
    • Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch
    Applet
    • Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are defined.
    2.5.1
    14/6/2010
    • Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long sequence IDs
    • clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both D+E are present in over 50% of the column
    • nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not import correctly
    • More columns get selected than were clicked on when a number of columns are hidden
    • annotation label popup menu not providing correct add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are present
    • Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats, and parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.
    • CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage of all symbols if sequence logo display is enabled
    Applet
    • annotation panel disappears when annotation is hidden/removed
    Application
    • Alignment view not redrawn properly when new alignment opened where annotation panel is visible but no annotations are present on alignment
    • pasted region containing hidden columns is incorrectly displayed in new alignment window
    • Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is flooded (fix is to close the Jalview console)
    • typo in AlignmentFrame->View->Hide->all but selected Rregions menu item.
    • inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry 'Un' or 'Non'conserved
    • Sequence feature settings are being shared by multiple distinct alignments
    • group annotation not recreated when tree partition is changed
    • double click on group annotation to select sequences does not propagate to associated trees
    • Mac OSX specific issues:
      • exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop window background
      • Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application name set correctly
      • sequence feature settings not wide enough for the save feature colourscheme button
    2.5
    30/4/2010
    New Capabilities
    • URL links generated from description line for regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
    • Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu
    • Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures
    • Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the currently highlighted region of an alignment.
    • Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average score or total feature count for each sequence.
    • Shading features by score or associated description
    • Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of selected subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).
    • New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to hide everything but the currently selected region.
    Application
    • Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support retrieval from DAS sequence sources
    • Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line or via the Add local source dialog box.
    • DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as database references and protein_name is parsed as description line (BioSapiens terms).
    • Enable or disable non-positional feature and database references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.
    • Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and conservation plots
    • Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and visualized as sequence logos
    • Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within each column of annotation row
    • Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a new tree is opened.
    • Jalview Java Console
    • Better placement of desktop window when moving between different screens.
    • New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and consensus annotation
    • Client to submit sequences and IDs to Envision2 Workflows
    • Vamsas Capabilities
      • Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)
      • Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command line
      • Sharing of selected regions between views and with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)
      • Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2
    Applet
    • Middle button resizes annotation row height
    • New Parameters
      • sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the associated alignment view by the tree when a new tree is opened.
      • showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide branch bootstraps (default is to show them if available)
      • showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide branch lengths (default is to show them if available)
      • showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree view
      • heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) - increase the height or width of a cell in the alignment grid relative to the current font size.
    • Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip
    Other
    • Features format: graduated colour definitions and specification of feature scores
    • Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)
    • XML formats extended to support graduated feature colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile visualization settings.
    • Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather than description
    • Non-positional features are now included in sequence feature and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature visibility in tooltip).
    • URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)
    • Added URL embedding instructions to features file documentation.
    • Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in peptide product
    • Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper case to match case-insensitively.
    • AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character column annotation labels
    • Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and re-imported)
    • PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name
    • Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.
    • Application:
      • Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval
      • Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text excludes the start_end suffix
      • DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled when fetch or registry operations in progress.
      • PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly
      • Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS
      • Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data sources
      • Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes before alignment figures are generated.
      • Reduced time taken when opening file browser for first time.
      • isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.
      • User defined group colours properly recovered from Jalview projects.
    2.4.0.b2
    28/10/2009
    • Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.
    • Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).
    • Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.
    • Exception when feature created from selection beyond length of sequence.
    • Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully
    • Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all sequences with a given id
    • Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID string searches
    • Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to fail with exception
    Application Issues
    • Sequences are now validated against EMBL database
    • Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data sources
    InstallAnywhere Issues
    • Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with installAnywhere mechanism)
    • Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version (java class versioning error fixed)
    2.4
    27/8/2008
    User Interface
    • Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation and protein products
    • Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue mapping to codon position
    • Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and 'clear' button
    • MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu
    • Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric data in description line
    • Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.
    • Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of sequence
    Web Services and URL fetching
    • JPred3 web service
    • Prototype sequence search client (no public services available yet)
    • Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM
    • URL Links created for matching database cross references as well as sequence ID
    • URL Links can be created using regular-expressions
    Sequence Database Connectivity
    • Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
    • Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to all fetchable databases
    • Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence command
    Import and Export
  • export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import
  • Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL products, and cDNA sequence mappings
  • Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File
  • Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB triplet as name of colourscheme
  • VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)
    • treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange
    • local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments (experimental)
    • Create new or select existing session to join
    • load and save of vamsas documents
    Application command line
    • -tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from applet)
    • -fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of DAS servers to query for alignment features
    • -dasserver command line argument to add new servers that are also automatically queried for features
    • -groovy command line argument executes a given groovy script after all input data has been loaded and parsed
    Applet-Application data exchange
    • Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to application (when using "View in full application")
    Applet Parameters
    • feature group display control parameter
    • debug parameter
    • showbutton parameter
    Applet API methods
    • newView public method
    • Window (current view) specific get/set public methods
    • Feature display control methods
    • get list of currently selected sequences
    New Jalview distribution features
    • InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1
    • RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview release.
    • Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate property controls execution of obfuscator
    • Build target for generating source distribution
    • Debug flag for javacc
    • .jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in jalview.bin.Cache
    • Continuous Build Integration for stable and development version of Application, Applet and source distribution
    • selected region output includes visible annotations (for certain formats)
    • edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for editing
    • update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)
    • shorter peptide product names from EMBL records
    • Newick string generator makes compact representations
    • bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with comments
    • pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing filenames containing a ':'
    • Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global sequence features
    • Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of references from alignment sequences goes to zero
    • Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection causes cascading exceptions
    • occasional negative imgwidth exceptions
    • better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file parsing fails.
    • Save works when Jalview project is default format
    • Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a valid output format
    • Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas
    • Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo
    • error messages passed up and output when data read fails
    • edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence is edited
    • allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly
    • allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype
    • Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import fixed for PFAM records
    • Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window list
    • annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be read and written correctly to annotation file
    • Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly
    • Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font for representatives in Applet
    • Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.
    • Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)
    • Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to null pointer exceptions
    • Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first column of alignment
    • Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July 2008
    • Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is case-insensitive
    • Sequence features read from Features file appended to all sequences with matching IDs
    • PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views containing a sub-sequence
    • PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files
    • feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to different directories are retrieved correctly
    • Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen version check to complete
    • Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when passing them to the launchApp service
    • display name and local features preserved in results retrieved from web service
    • Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence fetcher initialisation
    • updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS client
    • Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association
    • Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation sans sequences
    2.3
    9/5/07
    • Jmol 11.0.2 integration
    • PDB views stored in Jalview XML files
    • Slide sequences
    • Edit sequence in place
    • EMBL CDS features
    • DAS Feature mapping
    • Feature ordering
    • Alignment Properties
    • Annotation Scores
    • Sort by scores
    • Feature/annotation editing in applet
    • Headless state operation in 2.2.1
    • Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment
    • Cut and paste of sequences with annotation
    • Feature group display state in XML
    • Feature ordering in XML
    • blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix
    • Stockholm alignment properties
    • Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation
    • 2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency
    • Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode
    • Structure Viewer mirror image resolved
    2.2.1
    12/2/07
    • Non standard characters can be read and displayed
    • Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet via textbox
    • Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name & description
    • Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
    • Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to be defined
    • Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified in preferences
    • PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated sequences
    • Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
    • Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
    • PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
    2.2
    27/11/06
    • Multiple views on alignment
    • Sequence feature editing
    • "Reload" alignment
    • "Save" to current filename
    • Background dependent text colour
    • Right align sequence ids
    • User-defined lower case residue colours
    • Format Menu
    • Select Menu
    • Menu item accelerator keys
    • Control-V pastes to current alignment
    • Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
    • PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
    • User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
    • 'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
    • New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
    • Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus calculations
    • Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
    • Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of alignment)
    • Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
    • Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display correctly
    • Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
    • Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis results
    • Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by ∣
    • WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
    • Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
    • Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
    2.1.1
    12/9/06
    • Copy consensus sequence to clipboard
    • Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence id panel has been resized
    • Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered
    • Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in file are relative to sequence position
    • Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing
    2.1
    22/8/06
    • MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list
    • DAS Feature fetching
    • Hide sequences and columns
    • Export Annotations and Features
    • GFF file reading / writing
    • Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files
    • Add sequences to exisiting alignment
    • Recently opened files / URL lists
    • Applet can launch the full application
    • Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)
    • Applet has user defined colours parameter
    • Applet can load sequences from parameter "sequencex"
    • Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet
    • Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed
    • Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed
    2.08.1
    2/5/06
    • Change case of selected region from Popup menu
    • Choose to match case when searching
    • Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand the visible width and height of the alignment
    • Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results
    2.08b
    18/4/06
     
    • Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads
    • Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value
    2.08
    10/4/06
    • Editing can be locked to the selection area
    • Keyboard editing
    • Create sequence features from searches
    • Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments
    • Features file allows grouping of features
    • Annotation Colouring scheme added
    • Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering
    • Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off
    • Drag & Drop fixed on Linux
    • Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence descriptions saved.
    2.07
    12/12/05
    • PDB Structure Viewer enhanced
    • Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced
    • Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for file output
    • Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI
    • Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for HTML form input
    • HTML output writes groups and features
    • Group editing is Control and mouse click
    • File IO bugs
    2.06
    28/9/05
    • View annotations in wrapped mode
    • More options for PCA viewer
    • GUI bugs resolved
    • Runs with -nodisplay from command line
    2.05b
    15/9/05
    • Choose EPS export as lineart or text
    • Jar files are executable
    • Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue
    • Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message
    • Overview window calculated more efficiently
    • Several GUI bugs resolved
    2.05
    30/8/05
    • Edit and annotate in "Wrapped" view
    • Several GUI bugs resolved
    2.04
    24/8/05
    • Hold down mouse wheel & scroll to change font size
    • Improved JPred client reliability
    • Improved loading of Jalview files
    2.03
    18/8/05
    • Set Proxy server name and port in preferences
    • Multiple URL links from sequence ids
    • User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to Colour Menu
    • Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation
    • Unix users can set default web browser
    • Runs without GUI for batch processing
    • Dynamically generated Web Service Menus
    • InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris
    2.02
    18/7/05
     
    • Copy & Paste order of sequences maintains alignment order.
    2.01
    12/7/05
    • Use delete key for deleting selection.
    • Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.
    • Help file updated to describe how to add alignment annotations.
    • Version and build date written to build properties file.
    • InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at launch of Jalview.
    • Delete gaps bug fixed.
    • FileChooser sorts columns.
    • Can remove groups one by one.
    • Filechooser icons installed.
    • Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key will initiate a search.
    2.0
    20/6/05
    • New codebase