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22 <head>
23 <title>Release History</title>
24 </head>
25 <body>
26 <p><strong>Release History</strong></p>
27 <table border="1">
28                 <tr>
29                         <td width="60" nowrap>
30                                 <div align="center">
31                                         <em><strong>Release</strong></em>
32                                 </div>
33                         </td>
34                         <td>
35                                 <div align="center">
36                                         <em><strong>New Features</strong></em>
37                                 </div>
38                         </td>
39                         <td>
40                                 <div align="center">
41                                         <em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em>
42                                 </div>
43                         </td>
44                 </tr>
45                 <tr>
46                         <td><div align="center">
47                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>18/11/2014</em></strong>
48                                 </div></td>
49                         <td><em>General</em>
50                                 <ul>
51                                         <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing pairwise
52                                                 alignment</li>
53                                         <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
54                                                 imported/exported/displayed</li>
55                                         <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; can colour by RNA and
56                                                 protein secondary structure</li>
57                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
58                                 <ul>
59                                         <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences with
60                                                 3D structures</li>
61                                         <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
62                                         <li>Annotations menu for layout
63                                                 <ul>
64                                                         <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
65                                                         <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
66                                                                 annotation</li>
67                                                 </ul>
68                                         <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
69                                         <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es) translation</li>
70                                         <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
71                                         <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks shared
72                                                 between alignments</li>
73                                         <li>UCSF launch and linked highlighting from Jalview</li>
74                                         <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for all
75                                                 or current selection</li>
76                                         <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions available as
77                                                 dataset annotation</li>
78                                         <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
79
80
81                                         <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
82                                                 alignments from Rfam</li>
83                                         <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
84
85                                         <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
86                                                 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
87                                         <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
88                                         <li>include installation type in build properties and console
89                                                 log output</li>
90                                         <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset annotation</li>
91                                 </ul></td>
92                         <td>
93                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
94                                 <ul>
95                                         <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
96                                                 structure in structure-&gt;view-&gt;VARNA</li>
97                                         <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
98                                                 alignment</li>
99                                         <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
100                                         <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
101                                         <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation selects
102                                                 only first column</li>
103                                         <li>Redundancy removal doesn&#39;t result in unlinked leaves
104                                                 shown in tree</li>
105                                         <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
106                                                 properly</li>
107                                         <li>Hide sequence doesn&#39;t hide associated annotation</li>
108                                         <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on screen
109                                                 and buttons not visible</li>
110                                         <li>author list isn't updated if already written to jalview
111                                                 properties</li>
112                                         <li>Popup menu won&#39;t open after retrieving sequence from
113                                                 database</li>
114                                         <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn&#39;t open</li>
115                                         <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a browser
116                                                 search window</li>
117                                         <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu in
118                                                 feature settings dialog</li>
119                                         <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview desktop</li>
120                                         <li>Unable to add JABAWS Server which doesn&#39;t pass
121                                                 validation</li>
122                                         <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to fit on
123                                                 screen</li>
124                                         <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by tooltip</li>
125                                         <li>JABAWS preset submenus don&#39;t contain newly defined
126                                                 user preset</li>
127                                         <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched with
128                                                 invalid input</li>
129                                         <li>Jalview cannot contact dasregisty (Java 8)</li>
130
131                                 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
132                                 <ul>
133                                 </ul> <em>General</em>
134                                 <ul>
135                                 </ul> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
136                                 <ul>
137                                         <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on memory
138                                                 allocation</li>
139                                         <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
140                                                 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
141                                 </ul> 
142                                 <em>Application Known issues</em>
143                                 <ul>
144                                         <li>
145                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
146                                                 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling alignment
147                                                 to right
148                                         </li>
149                                         <li>
150                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
151                                                 &#39;Superpose with&#39; submenu not shown when new view created
152                                         </li>
153                                         <li>
154                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
155                                                 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval with
156                                                 large number of ID
157                                         </li>
158                                         <li>
159                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
160                                                 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence start/end
161                                         </li>
162                                         <li>
163                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
164                                                 rna structure consensus doesn&#39;t update when secondary
165                                                 structure tracks are rearranged
166                                         </li>
167                                         <li>
168                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
169                                                 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java 1.7_055 is
170                                                 available
171                                         </li>
172                                         <li>
173                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
174                                                 invalid rna structure positional highlighting isn&#39;t useful
175                                         </li>
176 </ul>
177 <ul>
178                                                                 <li>
179                                                                         <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
180                                                                         out of memory errors are not raised when saving jalview project
181                                                                         from alignment window file menu
182                                                                 </li>
183                                                                 <li>
184                                                                         <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
185                                                                         Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn&#39;t propagate to
186                                                                         structures
187                                                                 </li>
188                                                                 <li>
189                                                                         <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
190                                                                         colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created annotation
191                                                                         added to alignment
192                                                                 </li> TOFIX
193                                                                 <li>
194                                                                         <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
195                                                                         Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
196                                                                 </li>
197                                                 </ul>
198                                                 <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
199                                                 <ul>
200                                                         <li>
201                                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
202                                                                 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and JmolData jar dependencies
203                                                         </li>
204                                                         <li>
205                                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
206                                                                 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
207                                                         </li>
208
209                                                         <li>Sort by annotation score doesn&#39;t reverse order when
210                                                                 selected</li>
211                                                         </ul>
212                                                                                 </td>
213                 </tr>
214                 <tr>
215                         <td><div align="center">
216                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
217                                 </div></td>
218                         <td>
219                                 <!--  New features --> <!--  For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
220                                 <em>General</em>
221                                 <ul>
222                                         <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually called
223                                                 i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
224                                         <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
225                                                 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
226                                         <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
227                                                 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
228                                         <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution percentages
229                                                 shown in logo tooltip.</li>
230                                         <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
231                                                 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
232                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
233                                 <ul>
234                                         <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure prediction
235                                                 VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
236                                         <li>Select columns containing particular features from Feature
237                                                 Settings dialog</li>
238                                         <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
239                                                 sequences</li>
240                                         <li>Update Jalview project format:
241                                                 <ul>
242               <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
243                                                         <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to store
244                                                                 secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
245                                                         <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
246                                                                 colouring</li>
247                                                 </ul>
248                                         </li>
249                                         <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
250                                                 (PAM250)</li>
251                                         <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of flanking
252                                                 regions for an alignment</li>
253                                 </ul>
254                         </td>
255                         <td>
256                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
257                                 <ul>
258                                         <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
259                                                 running after job is cancelled</li>
260                                         <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
261                                                 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
262                                         <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take float
263                                                 values</li>
264                                         <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't have
265                                                 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
266                                         <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
267                                                 annotation shading not saved in jalview project</li>
268                                         <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded Jalview</li>
269                                         <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart</li>
270                                         <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
271                                         <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
272                                         <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
273                                                 alignment onto desktop</li>
274                                         <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
275                                                 'extract scores' function</li>
276                                         <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
277                                                 alignment window</li>
278                                         <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after performing
279                                                 IUPred disorder prediction</li>
280                                         <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
281                                                 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
282                                         <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
283                                                 nothing matches query</li>
284                                         <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by feature
285                                                 with lots of groups<!--  possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
286                                         </li>
287                                         <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment don't
288                                                 overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
289                                         </li>
290                                         <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in Jalview's
291                                                 menu</li>
292                                         <li>JAVAWS version of jalview fails to launch with 'invalid
293                                                 literal/length code'</li>
294                                         <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied to
295                                                 alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
296             <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default colourscheme</li>
297
298                                 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
299                                 <ul>
300                                         <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is not a
301                                                 group</li>
302                                         <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes don't
303                                                 affect groups</li>
304                                                 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid colourscheme name</li>
305                                                 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
306                                                 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and embedded windows</li>
307                                 </ul> <em>Other</em>
308                                 <ul>
309                                         <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a single
310                                                 sequence were not calculated</li>
311                                         <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
312                                                 annotation and junk sequences</li>
313                                         <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
314                                                 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
315                                         <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option doesn't
316                                                 affect background (2.8.0b1)
317                                         <li></li>
318                                         <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
319                                         <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
320                                                 trailing gaps</li>
321                                         <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not registered
322                                                 correctly on import</li>
323                                         <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for certain
324                                                 alignments</li>
325                                         <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an existing
326                                                 annotation based 'use original colours' colourscheme loses
327                                                 original colours setting</li>
328                                 </ul>
329                         </td>
330                 </tr>
331                 <tr>
332         <td><div align="center">
333         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br/><em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
334         </div>
335         </td>
336       <td>
337         <ul>
338           <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
339             Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
340             <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
341             open source project).
342           </li>
343           <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by Uniprot and EBI-search
344           </li>
345           <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
346           <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
347           <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
348             graph thresholds</li>
349           <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
350             ambiguity codes</li>
351           <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
352             selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
353             works</li>
354           <li>Groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
355         </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
356         <ul>
357           <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
358           <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
359             GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
360           <li>Support &#39;&#39; style escaping of quotes in Newick
361             files</li>
362           <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
363           <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
364             link but no description</li>
365           <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
366             database fetcher GUI</li>
367           <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
368             Jalview</li>
369           <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
370         </ul>
371       </td>
372       <td>
373         <ul>
374           <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
375             displayed</li>
376           <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
377             secondary structure annotation line</li>
378           <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
379             fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
380           <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
381             identical IDs</li>
382           <li>View all structures does not always superpose
383             structures</li>
384           <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
385             reflect user or preset settings</li>
386           <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
387             presets or adjustable parameters</li>
388           <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn&#39;t
389             discover PDB xRefs</li>
390           <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
391             features with DAS</li>
392           <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn&#39;t coloured
393             when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
394           <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
395             residue follows a gap</li>
396           <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
397             Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
398           <li>&#39;Right click to add annotations&#39; message
399             shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
400           <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
401             annotation already exists on alignment</li>
402           <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
403             initialisation completes</li>
404           <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
405             alignment window display</li>
406           <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
407           <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
408             to annotation file</li>
409           <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
410             groups created</li>
411           <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
412             several &#39;combine&#39; statements in annotation file</li>
413           <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
414             exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
415           <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn&#39;t submit
416             correct partitions for input data</li>
417           <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
418           <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
419           <li>--headless flag isn&#39;t understood</li>
420           <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
421             mode</li>
422           <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
423             changes one row&#39;s threshold</li>            
424           <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
425             doesn&#39;t open</li>
426                                         <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
427                                                 quality histograms</li>
428                                 </ul>
429       </td>
430     </tr>
431   <tr>
432    <td><div align="center">
433      <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
434     </div></td>
435    <td><em>Application</em>
436     <ul><li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
437      conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
438     <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services preferences
439    </li>
440     <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in
441      Jalview alignment window</li>
442     <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain
443      lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
444     <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA
445      and ambiguity codes</li>
446
447     <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
448     <li>Support fetching and database reference look up against
449      multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')</li>
450     <li>Jalview project improvements
451      <ul>
452       <li>Store and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for
453        annotation</li>
454       <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
455        alignment</li>
456       <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview
457        project</li>
458
459      </ul>
460    </li>
461     <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
462     <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running</li>
463     <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
464     <li>visual indication that web service results are still being
465      retrieved from server</li>
466     <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview starts up
467      for first time</li>
468     <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
469      services</li>
470     <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client
471      library</li>
472     <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
473      InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
474     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
475     <ul>
476      <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
477       visualization applet example</li>
478     </ul> <em>General</em>
479     <ul>
480      <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
481      <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
482       defaults</li>
483      <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
484       calculation</li>
485      <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
486       matrices
487      <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported in
488       HTML</li>
489      <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary structure
490       contacts</li>
491      <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
492      <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
493      <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure information
494       in Stockholm files</li>
495      <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation information
496       presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
497      <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA
498       alignment files</li>
499      <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
500       alignment</li>
501      <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; per sequence option to
502       shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
503       annotation</li>
504      <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
505     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
506     <ul>
507      <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
508      <li>New Website!</li>
509     </ul></td>
510    <td><em>Application</em>
511     <ul>
512      <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
513       wsdbfetch REST service</li>
514      <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
515      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
516      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
517       execution in full once it is complete</li>
518      <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
519       uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
520      <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
521      <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
522      <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
523       submitted for prediction</li>
524      <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
525       desktop window</li>
526      <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
527       alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
528      <li>Structure view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
529      </li>
530      <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
531       structure view</li>
532      <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
533       escaped in a platform independent way</li>
534      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using
535       proxy</li>
536      <li>Tree calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more
537       sequences selected&#39; when selection is empty</li>
538      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure
539       when java web start temporary file caching is disabled</li>
540      <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in
541       sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
542      <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments cause
543       progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
544      <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS
545       sources in sequence fetcher</li>
546      <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog
547       is shown</li>
548      <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
549      <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
550      <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
551      <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on
552       OSX Mountain Lion</li>
553      <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when sequences
554       with alignment annotation are pasted into the alignment</li>
555      <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated when
556       loaded from Jalview project</li>
557      <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
558      <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled
559       or job failed due to invalid input</li>
560      <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated
561       with all views</li>
562      <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
563       annotation rows to new window</li>
564     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
565     <ul>
566      <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they
567       are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
568      <li>loading features via javascript API automatically enables
569       feature display</li>
570      <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn&#39;t work</li>
571     </ul> <em>General</em>
572     <ul>
573      <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
574      <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected and
575       then deselected</li>
576      <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
577      <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
578       coloured with clustalx</li>
579      <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
580       exceptions and redraw errors</li>
581      <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured
582       view</li>
583      <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line colour</li>
584      <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted for
585       lots of labels</li>
586     </ul>
587   </tr>
588   <tr>
589    <td>
590     <div align="center">
591      <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
592     </div>
593    </td>
594    <td><em>Application</em>
595     <ul>
596      <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
597      <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
598      <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
599       specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
600       colours/correspondences from</li>
601      <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
602      <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations between
603       many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
604      <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
605      <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
606       in project file</li>
607      <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
608       preserved in Jalview project file</li>
609      <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
610       using Desktop window menu</li>
611      <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
612       being processed</li>
613      <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
614      <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
615       preferences</li>
616      <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
617       alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
618       IDs</li>
619      <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
620      <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
621       in same window</li>
622      <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
623      <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
624       analysis function in its own submenu</li>
625     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
626     <ul>
627      <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
628      <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
629      <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
630      <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
631      <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
632      <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
633       annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
634      <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
635      <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
636       parameters are treated as such</li>
637      <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
638       <ul>
639        <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
640        <li>Javascript callbacks for
641         <ul>
642          <li>Applet initialisation</li>
643          <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
644         </ul>
645        </li>
646        <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
647        <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
648        <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
649         between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
650        <li>sortBy method</li>
651        <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
652         documentation</li>
653        <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
654         javascript message exchange</li>
655       </ul>
656     </ul> <em>General</em>
657     <ul>
658      <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
659       multiple alignments</li>
660      <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
661      <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
662       www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
663      <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
664      <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
665       other flat files</li>
666      <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
667       html tags</li>
668     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
669     <ul>
670      <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
671      </li>
672      <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
673       web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
674      <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
675      <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
676       archive</li>
677      <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
678      <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
679     </ul></td>
680    <td><em>Application</em>
681     <ul>
682      <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
683       built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
684      <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
685       valid filename/format</li>
686      <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
687      <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
688      <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
689       sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
690      <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
691       matches sequence IDs</li>
692      <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
693      <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
694       cannot be loaded</li>
695      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
696      <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
697       sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
698       associated sequence</li>
699      <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
700       preserved when project is loaded</li>
701      <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
702       in Jalview project</li>
703      <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a Jalview
704       project</li>
705      <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
706      <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
707       conservation</li>
708      <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
709       created on new view</li>
710      <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
711       hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
712      <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
713       row is hidden then shown</li>
714      <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in
715       pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
716      <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
717      </li>
718      <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
719       services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
720      <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
721      <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
722       name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
723      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
724       execution in full once it is complete</li>
725     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
726     <ul>
727      <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
728       rows are displayed</li>
729      <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
730       codebase</li>
731      <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
732       sequences</li>
733      <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
734      <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
735      <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
736       javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
737       parameter</li>
738      <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
739       alignment with no existing selection</li>
740      <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
741       applet&#39;s codebase</li>
742      <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
743       wraps around to first result</li>
744      <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
745       Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
746      <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
747       sent from Jmol in applet</li>
748      <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
749       fatally hang browser</li>
750     </ul> <em>General</em>
751     <ul>
752      <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
753       with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
754      <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
755       hidden columns</li>
756      <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
757       off by 1</li>
758      <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
759       import PDB like structure files</li>
760      <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
761       user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
762      <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
763      <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
764       sequence position</li>
765      <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
766      <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
767       nucleotide chains correctly</li>
768      <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
769       in alignment</li>
770      <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
771       parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
772      <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
773      </li>
774      <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
775      <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
776       associated with their pdb files</li>
777     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
778     <ul>
779      <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
780       tool</li>
781     </ul></td>
782   </tr>
783   <tr>
784                         <td>
785                                 <div align="center">
786                                         <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a>
787                                         </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
788                                 </div></td>
789                         <td><em>Application</em>
790                                 <ul>
791                                         <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot contact
792                                                 web services</li>
793                                         <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in service
794                                                 job window</li>
795                                         <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
796                                 </ul></td>
797                         <td>
798                                 <ul>
799                                         <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a pir
800                                                 file emitted by Jalview</li>
801                                         <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new alignment
802                                                 view created from cut'n'paste</li>
803                                         <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
804                                                 parsing PDB files</li>
805                                         <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows occasionally
806                                                 become blank for all new windows</li>
807                                         <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences in
808                                                 wrapped view mode</li>
809                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
810                                 <ul>
811                                         <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu usage
812                                                 to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
813                                         <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
814                                                 parameter names</li>
815                                         <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server is
816                                                 down</li>
817                                 </ul></td>
818                 </tr>
819                 <tr>
820                 <td>
821                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br>
822                 <em>26/9/2010</em></div>
823                 </td>
824                 <td><em>Application</em>
825                 <ul>
826                         <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
827                         <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices (JABAWS)</li>
828                         <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
829                         <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined preferences</li>
830                         <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
831                         <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence alignment</li>
832                         <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer</li>
833                 </ul>
834                 <em>Applet</em>
835                 <ul>
836                         <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the link out
837                         mechanism</li>
838                 </ul>
839                 <em>Other</em>
840                 <ul>
841                         <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol series
842                         12</li>
843                         <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now require Java
844                         1.5</li>
845                         <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF sequence
846                         annotation files</li>
847                         <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file type
848                         colour specification</li>
849                         <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a script
850                         to check if it being run in an interactive session or in a batch
851                         operation from the Jalview command line</li>
852                 </ul>
853                 </td>
854                 <td>
855                 <ul>
856                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
857                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
858                 </ul>
859
860                 <em>Application</em>
861                 <ul>
862                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
863                         selected Regions menu item</li>
864                         <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is part
865                         of a valid accession ID</li>
866                         <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher runs out
867                         of memory</li>
868                         <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca analysis
869                         results</li>
870                         <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5
871                         update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
872                         <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
873                 </ul>
874                 <em>Applet</em>
875                 <ul>
876                         <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
877                         ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are defined.</li>
878                 </ul>
879                 </td>
880         </tr>
881         <tr>
882                 <td>
883                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br>
884                 <em>14/6/2010</em></div>
885                 </td>
886                 <td></td>
887                 <td>
888                 <ul>
889                         <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long sequence IDs
890                         </li>
891                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
892                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
893                         <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not import
894                         correctly</li>
895                         <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a number
896                         of columns are hidden</li>
897                         <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
898                         add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are present</li>
899                         <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats, and
900                         parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
901                         <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage of all
902                         symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
903
904                 </ul>
905                 <em>Applet</em>
906                 <ul>
907                         <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
908                         hidden/removed</li>
909                 </ul>
910                 <em>Application</em>
911                 <ul>
912                         <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new alignment
913                         opened where annotation panel is visible but no annotations are
914                         present on alignment</li>
915                         <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is incorrectly
916                         displayed in new alignment window</li>
917                         <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is flooded
918                         (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
919                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
920                         selected Rregions menu item.</li>
921                         <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry 'Un' or
922                         'Non'conserved</li>
923                         <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by multiple
924                         distinct alignments</li>
925                         <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
926                         changed</li>
927                         <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences does
928                         not propagate to associated trees</li>
929                         <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
930                         <ul>
931                                 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop window
932                                 background</li>
933                                 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application name set
934                                 correctly</li>
935                                 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the save
936                                 feature colourscheme button</li>
937                         </ul>
938                         </li>
939                 </ul>
940                 </td>
941         </tr>
942         <tr>
943
944                 <td>
945                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br>
946                 <em>30/4/2010</em></div>
947                 </td>
948                 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
949                 <ul>
950                         <li>URL links generated from description line for
951                         regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
952                         <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu</li>
953                         <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures</li>
954                         <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the
955                         currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
956                         <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average
957                         score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
958                         <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
959                         <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of selected
960                         subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
961                         <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to hide
962                         everything but the currently selected region.</li>
963                         <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
964                 </ul>
965                 <em>Application</em>
966                 <ul>
967                         <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
968                         retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
969                         <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
970                         or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
971                         <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as database
972                         references and protein_name is parsed as description line (BioSapiens
973                         terms).</li>
974                         <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
975                         references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
976                         <!--                    <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
977                         in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
978                         <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and conservation
979                         plots</li>
980                         <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and
981                         visualized as sequence logos</li>
982                         <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within
983                         each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet --></li>
984                         <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
985                         new tree is opened.</li>
986                         <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
987                         <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving between
988                         different screens.</li>
989                         <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and consensus
990                         annotation</li>
991                         <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to <a
992                                 href="webServices/index.html#envision2">Envision2</a> Workflows</li>
993                         <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
994                         <ul>
995                                 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive used to
996                                 preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
997                                 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command
998                                 line</li>
999                                 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
1000                                 VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
1001                                 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1002                         </ul>
1003                         </li>
1004                 </ul>
1005                 <em>Applet</em>
1006                 <ul>
1007                         <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1008                         <li>New Parameters
1009                         <ul>
1010                                 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the associated
1011                                 alignment view by the tree when a new tree is opened.</li>
1012                                 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide branch
1013                                 bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1014                                 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide branch
1015                                 lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1016                                 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1017                                 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree view</li>
1018                                 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) - increase the
1019                                 height or width of a cell in the alignment grid relative to the
1020                                 current font size.</li>
1021                         </ul>
1022                         </li>
1023                         <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
1024                 </ul>
1025                 <em>Other</em>
1026                 <ul>
1027                         <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1028                         specification of feature scores</li>
1029                         <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1030                         associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1031                         properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1032                         <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1033                         colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile visualization
1034                         settings.</li>
1035                 </td>
1036                 <td>
1037                 <ul>
1038                         <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather
1039                         than description</li>
1040                         <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence feature
1041                         and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature visibility in
1042                         tooltip).</li>
1043                         <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1044                         <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1045                         documentation.</li>
1046                         <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in
1047                         peptide product</li>
1048                         <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence
1049                         ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper
1050                         case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1051                         <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character
1052                         column annotation labels</li>
1053                         <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with
1054                         documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and
1055                         re-imported)</li>
1056                         <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name</li>
1057                         <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as
1058                         subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.</li>
1059                         <li>Application:
1060                         <ul>
1061                                 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
1062                                 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text
1063                                 excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1064                                 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled when
1065                                 fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1066                                 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1067                                 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
1068                                 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1069                                 sources</li>
1070                                 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes
1071                                 before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1072                                 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for first
1073                                 time.</li>
1074                                 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1075                                 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1076                                 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered from Jalview
1077                                 projects.</li>
1078                         </ul>
1079                         </li>
1080                 </ul>
1081                 </td>
1082
1083         </tr>
1084         <tr>
1085                 <td>
1086                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
1087                 28/10/2009</div>
1088                 </td>
1089                 <td>
1090                 <ul>
1091                         <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
1092                         <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1093                 </ul>
1094                 </td>
1095                 <td>
1096                 <ul>
1097                         <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
1098                         <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond length
1099                         of sequence.</li>
1100                         <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1101                         <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all
1102                         sequences with a given id</li>
1103                         <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID
1104                         string searches</li>
1105                         <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to
1106                         fail with exception</li>
1107                 </ul>
1108                 <em>Application Issues</em>
1109                 <ul>
1110                         <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1111                         <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1112                         sources</li>
1113                 </ul>
1114                 <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1115                 <ul>
1116                         <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with
1117                         installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1118                         <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version
1119                         (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1120                 </ul>
1121                 </td>
1122         </tr>
1123         <tr>
1124                 <td>
1125
1126                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
1127                 27/8/2008</div>
1128                 </td>
1129                 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1130                 <ul>
1131                         <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
1132                         and protein products</li>
1133                         <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue
1134                         mapping to codon position</li>
1135                         <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and
1136                         'clear' button</li>
1137                         <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
1138                         <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric
1139                         data in description line</li>
1140                         <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1141                         <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of
1142                         sequence</li>
1143                 </ul>
1144                 <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1145                 <ul>
1146                         <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1147                         <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1148                         available yet)</li>
1149                         <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
1150                         <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as
1151                         well as sequence ID</li>
1152                         <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1153                 </ul>
1154                 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1155                 <ul>
1156                         <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
1157                         </li>
1158                         <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
1159                         all fetchable databases</li>
1160                         <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence
1161                         command</li>
1162                 </ul>
1163                 <em>Import and Export</em>
1164                 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1165                 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
1166                 products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1167                 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
1168                 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1169                 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1170                 </ul>
1171                 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1172                 <ul>
1173                         <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1174                         <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
1175                         (experimental)</li>
1176                         <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1177                         <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1178                 </ul>
1179                 <em>Application command line</em>
1180                 <ul>
1181                         <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
1182                         applet)</li>
1183                         <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of DAS
1184                         servers to query for alignment features</li>
1185                         <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that are
1186                         also automatically queried for features</li>
1187                         <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy script
1188                         after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1189                 </ul>
1190                 <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1191                 <ul>
1192                         <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1193                         application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
1194                 </ul>
1195                 <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1196                 <ul>
1197                         <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1198                         <li>debug parameter</li>
1199                         <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1200                 </ul>
1201                 <em>Applet API methods</em>
1202                 <ul>
1203                         <li>newView public method</li>
1204                         <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1205                         <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1206                         <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1207                 </ul>
1208                 <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1209                 <ul>
1210                         <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1211                         <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
1212                         release.</li>
1213                         <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1214                         property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1215                         <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1216                         <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1217                         <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1218                         jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1219                         <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development
1220                         version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>
1221                 </ul>
1222
1223                 </td>
1224                 <td>
1225                 <ul>
1226                         <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
1227                         certain formats)</li>
1228                         <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
1229                         editing</li>
1230                         <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1231                         <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1232                         <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1233                         <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1234                         comments</li>
1235                         <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1236                         filenames containing a ':'</li>
1237                         <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
1238                         sequence features</li>
1239                         <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1240                         references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1241                         <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
1242                         causes cascading exceptions</li>
1243                         <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1244                         <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
1245                         parsing fails.</li>
1246                         <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1247                         <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a
1248                         valid output format</li>
1249                         <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
1250                         <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1251                         <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
1252                         <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
1253                         is edited</li>
1254                         <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
1255                         generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1256                         <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
1257                         <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import
1258                         fixed for PFAM records</li>
1259                         <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window
1260                         list</li>
1261                         <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
1262                         read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1263                         <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly</li>
1264                         <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
1265                         for representatives in Applet</li>
1266                         <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
1267                         <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
1268                         <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
1269                         null pointer exceptions</li>
1270                         <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
1271                         column of alignment</li>
1272                         <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July
1273                         2008</li>
1274                         <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is
1275                         case-insensitive</li>
1276                         <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all
1277                         sequences with matching IDs</li>
1278                         <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1279                         containing a sub-sequence</li>
1280                         <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1281                         <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to
1282                         different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1283                         <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1284                         <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen
1285                         version check to complete</li>
1286                         <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when
1287                         passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1288                         <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1289                         retrieved from web service</li>
1290                         <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence
1291                         fetcher initialisation</li>
1292                         <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS
1293                         client</li>
1294                         <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
1295                         <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1296                         sequences</li>
1297                 </ul>
1298                 </td>
1299         </tr>
1300         <tr>
1301                 <td>
1302                 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
1303                 9/5/07</div>
1304                 </td>
1305                 <td>
1306                 <ul>
1307                         <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1308                         <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1309                         <li>Slide sequences</li>
1310                         <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1311                         <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1312                         <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1313                         <li>Feature ordering</li>
1314                         <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1315                         <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1316                         <li>Sort by scores</li>
1317                         <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1318                 </ul>
1319                 </td>
1320                 <td>
1321                 <ul>
1322                         <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1323                         <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1324                         <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1325                         <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1326                         <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1327                         <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1328                         <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1329                         <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1330                         <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1331                         <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1332                         <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1333                 </ul>
1334                 </td>
1335
1336         </tr>
1337         <tr>
1338                 <td>
1339                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
1340                 12/2/07</div>
1341                 </td>
1342                 <td>
1343                 <ul>
1344                         <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1345                         <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
1346                         via textbox
1347                         <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
1348                         &amp; description
1349                         <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
1350                         <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
1351                         be defined
1352                         <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
1353                         in preferences
1354                         <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1355                         sequences
1356                 </ul>
1357                 </td>
1358                 <td>
1359                 <ul>
1360                         <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
1361                         <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1362                         <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1363                 </ul>
1364                 </td>
1365         </tr>
1366         <tr>
1367                 <td>
1368                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
1369                 27/11/06</div>
1370                 </td>
1371                 <td>
1372                 <ul>
1373                         <li>Multiple views on alignment
1374                         <li>Sequence feature editing
1375                         <li>&quot;Reload&quot; alignment
1376                         <li>&quot;Save&quot; to current filename
1377                         <li>Background dependent text colour
1378                         <li>Right align sequence ids
1379                         <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1380                         <li>Format Menu
1381                         <li>Select Menu
1382                         <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1383                         <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1384                         <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1385                         <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1386                         <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1387                         <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1388                 </ul>
1389                 </td>
1390                 <td>
1391                 <ul>
1392                         <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1393                         <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1394                         calculations
1395                         <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
1396                         <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
1397                         alignment)
1398                         <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1399                         <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
1400                         correctly
1401                         <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1402                         <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
1403                         results
1404                         <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by &#8739;
1405                         <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1406                         <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1407                         <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1408                 </ul>
1409                 </td>
1410         </tr>
1411         <tr>
1412                 <td>
1413                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
1414                 12/9/06</div>
1415                 </td>
1416                 <td>
1417                 <ul>
1418                         <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1419                 </ul>
1420                 </td>
1421                 <td>
1422                 <ul>
1423                         <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
1424                         id panel has been resized</li>
1425                         <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
1426                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
1427                         file are relative to sequence position</li>
1428                         <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1429                 </ul>
1430                 </td>
1431         </tr>
1432         <tr>
1433                 <td>
1434                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
1435                 22/8/06</div>
1436                 </td>
1437                 <td>
1438                 <ul>
1439                         <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1440                         <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1441                         <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1442                         <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1443                         <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1444                         <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
1445                         <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1446                         <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1447                         <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1448                         <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
1449                         <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1450                         <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter &quot;sequence<em>x</em>&quot;</li>
1451                 </ul>
1452                 </td>
1453                 <td>
1454                 <ul>
1455                         <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1456                         <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1457                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1458                 </ul>
1459                 </td>
1460         </tr>
1461         <tr>
1462                 <td>
1463                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
1464                 2/5/06</div>
1465                 </td>
1466                 <td>
1467                 <ul>
1468                         <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1469                         <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1470                         <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
1471                         the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1472                 </ul>
1473                 </td>
1474                 <td>
1475                 <ul>
1476                         <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1477                 </ul>
1478                 </td>
1479         </tr>
1480         <tr>
1481                 <td>
1482                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
1483                 18/4/06</div>
1484                 </td>
1485                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1486                 <td>
1487                 <ul>
1488                         <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1489                         <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
1490                 </ul>
1491                 </td>
1492         </tr>
1493         <tr>
1494                 <td>
1495                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
1496                 10/4/06</div>
1497                 </td>
1498                 <td>
1499                 <ul>
1500                         <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1501                         <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1502                         <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1503                         <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
1504                         <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1505                         <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1506                         <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1507                         <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1508                 </ul>
1509                 </td>
1510                 <td>
1511                 <ul>
1512                         <li>Drag &amp; Drop fixed on Linux</li>
1513                         <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
1514                         descriptions saved.</li>
1515                 </ul>
1516                 </td>
1517         </tr>
1518         <tr>
1519                 <td>
1520                 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
1521                 12/12/05</div>
1522                 </td>
1523                 <td>
1524                 <ul>
1525                         <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
1526                         <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
1527                         <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
1528                         file output</li>
1529                         <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
1530                         <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
1531                         HTML form input</li>
1532                 </ul>
1533                 </td>
1534                 <td>
1535                 <ul>
1536                         <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
1537                         <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
1538                         <li>File IO bugs</li>
1539                 </ul>
1540                 </td>
1541         </tr>
1542         <tr>
1543                 <td>
1544                 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
1545                 28/9/05</div>
1546                 </td>
1547                 <td>
1548                 <ul>
1549                         <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
1550                         <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
1551                 </ul>
1552                 </td>
1553                 <td>
1554                 <ul>
1555                         <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
1556                         <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
1557                 </ul>
1558                 </td>
1559         </tr>
1560         <tr>
1561                 <td height="63">
1562                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
1563                 15/9/05</div>
1564                 </td>
1565                 <td>
1566                 <ul>
1567                         <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
1568                         <li>Jar files are executable</li>
1569                         <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
1570                 </ul>
1571                 </td>
1572                 <td>
1573                 <ul>
1574                         <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
1575                         <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
1576                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1577                 </ul>
1578                 </td>
1579         </tr>
1580         <tr>
1581                 <td>
1582                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
1583                 30/8/05</div>
1584                 </td>
1585                 <td>
1586                 <ul>
1587                         <li>Edit and annotate in &quot;Wrapped&quot; view</li>
1588                 </ul>
1589                 </td>
1590                 <td>
1591                 <ul>
1592                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1593                 </ul>
1594                 </td>
1595         </tr>
1596         <tr>
1597                 <td>
1598                 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
1599                 24/8/05</div>
1600                 </td>
1601                 <td>
1602                 <ul>
1603                         <li>Hold down mouse wheel &amp; scroll to change font size</li>
1604                 </ul>
1605                 </td>
1606                 <td>
1607                 <ul>
1608                         <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
1609                         <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
1610                 </ul>
1611                 </td>
1612         </tr>
1613         <tr>
1614                 <td>
1615                 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
1616                 18/8/05</div>
1617                 </td>
1618                 <td>
1619                 <ul>
1620                         <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
1621                         <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
1622                         <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
1623                         Colour Menu</li>
1624                         <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
1625                         <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
1626                         <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
1627                         <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
1628                 </ul>
1629                 </td>
1630                 <td>
1631                 <ul>
1632                         <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
1633                 </ul>
1634                 </td>
1635         </tr>
1636         <tr>
1637                 <td>
1638                 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
1639                 18/7/05</div>
1640                 </td>
1641                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1642                 <td>
1643                 <ul>
1644                         <li>Copy &amp; Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
1645                         order.</li>
1646                 </ul>
1647                 </td>
1648         </tr>
1649         <tr>
1650                 <td>
1651                 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
1652                 12/7/05</div>
1653                 </td>
1654                 <td>
1655                 <ul>
1656                         <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
1657                         <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
1658                         <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
1659                         annotations.</li>
1660                         <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
1661                         <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
1662                         launch of Jalview.</li>
1663                 </ul>
1664                 </td>
1665                 <td>
1666                 <ul>
1667                         <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
1668                         <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
1669                         <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
1670                         <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
1671                         <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
1672                         will initiate a search.<br>
1673                         </li>
1674                 </ul>
1675                 </td>
1676         </tr>
1677         <tr>
1678                 <td>
1679                 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
1680                 20/6/05</div>
1681                 </td>
1682                 <td>
1683                 <ul>
1684                         <li>New codebase</li>
1685                 </ul>
1686                 </td>
1687                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1688         </tr>
1689 </table>
1690 <p>&nbsp;</p>
1691 </body>
1692 </html>