JAL-1620 version bump and release notes
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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 width="60" nowrap>
47                                 <div align="center">
48                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2b1">2.8.2b1</a><br /> <em>15/12/2014</em></strong>
49                                 </div>
50                         </td>
51                         <td>
52                                 <div align="center">
53                                 </div>
54                         </td>
55                         <td>
56                                 <div align="center">
57                                         <ul><li>Reinstated the display of default example file on startup</li>
58                                         <li>All pairs shown in Jalview window when viewing result of pairwise alignment</li>
59                                         </ul>
60                                 </div>
61                         </td>
62                 </tr>
63                 <tr>
64                         <td><div align="center">
65                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
66                                 </div></td>
67                         <td><em>General</em>
68                                 <ul>
69                                 <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by Certum.PL.</li>
70                                         <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing pairwise
71                                                 alignment</li>
72                                         <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
73                                                 imported/exported/displayed</li>
74                                         <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; can colour by RNA and
75                                                 protein secondary structure</li>
76                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
77                                 <ul>
78                                         <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences with
79                                                 3D structures</li>
80                                         <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
81                                         <li>Annotations menu for layout
82                                                 <ul>
83                                                         <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
84                                                         <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
85                                                                 annotation</li>
86                                                 </ul>
87                                         <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
88                                         <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es) translation</li>
89                                         <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
90                                         <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks shared
91                                                 between alignments</li>
92                                         <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from Jalview</li>
93                                         <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for all
94                                                 or current selection</li>
95                                         <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions available as
96                                                 dataset annotation</li>
97                                         <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
98
99
100                                         <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
101                                                 alignments from Rfam</li>
102                                         <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
103
104                                         <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
105                                                 conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
106                                         <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
107                                         <li>include installation type in build properties and console
108                                                 log output</li>
109                                         <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset annotation</li>
110                                 </ul></td>
111                         <td>
112                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
113                                 <ul>
114                                         <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
115                                                 structure in structure-&gt;view-&gt;VARNA</li>
116                                         <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
117                                                 alignment</li>
118                                         <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
119                                         <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
120                                         <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation selects
121                                                 only first column</li>
122                                         <li>Redundancy removal doesn&#39;t result in unlinked leaves
123                                                 shown in tree</li>
124                                         <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
125                                                 properly</li>
126                                         <li>Hide sequence doesn&#39;t hide associated annotation</li>
127                                         <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on screen
128                                                 and buttons not visible</li>
129                                         <li>author list isn't updated if already written to jalview
130                                                 properties</li>
131                                         <li>Popup menu won&#39;t open after retrieving sequence from
132                                                 database</li>
133                                         <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn&#39;t open</li>
134                                         <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a browser
135                                                 search window</li>
136                                         <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu in
137                                                 feature settings dialog</li>
138                                         <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview desktop</li>
139                                         <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn&#39;t pass
140                                                 validation</li>
141                                         <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to fit on
142                                                 screen</li>
143                                         <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by tooltip</li>
144                                         <li>JABAWS preset submenus don&#39;t contain newly defined
145                                                 user preset</li>
146                                         <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched with
147                                                 invalid input</li>
148                                         <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on Java 8</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
154                                 </ul> <!--  <em>Applet</em>
155                                 <ul>
156                                 </ul> <em>General</em>
157                                 <ul> 
158                                 </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
159                                 <ul>
160                                         <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on memory
161                                                 allocation</li>
162                                         <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
163                                                 www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
164                                         <li>
165                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
166                                                 InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java 1.7_055 is
167                                                 available
168                                         </li>
169                                 </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
170                                 <ul>
171                                         <li>
172                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
173                                                 corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling alignment
174                                                 to right
175                                         </li>
176                                         <li>
177                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
178                                                 retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval with
179                                                 large number of ID
180                                         </li>
181                                         <li>
182                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
183                                                 flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence start/end
184                                         </li>
185                                         <li>
186                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
187                                                 rna structure consensus doesn&#39;t update when secondary
188                                                 structure tracks are rearranged
189                                         </li>
190                                         <li>
191                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
192                                                 invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not highlight
193                                                 position of invalid base pairs
194                                         </li>
195                                         <li>
196                                                 <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
197                                                 out of memory errors are not raised when saving jalview project
198                                                 from alignment window file menu
199                                         </li>
200                                         <li>
201                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
202                                                 Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn&#39;t propagate to
203                                                 structures
204                                         </li>
205                                         <li>
206                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
207                                                 colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created annotation
208                                                 added to alignment
209                                         </li>
210                                         <li>
211                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
212                                                 Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
213                                         </li>
214                                 </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
215                                 <ul>
216                                         <li>
217                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
218                                                 JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
219                                         </li>
220                                         <li>
221                                                 <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
222                                                 Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
223                                         </li>
224
225                                         <li>Sort by annotation score doesn&#39;t reverse order when
226                                                 selected</li>
227                                 </ul>
228                         </td>
229                 </tr>
230                 <tr>
231                         <td><div align="center">
232                                         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
233                                 </div></td>
234                         <td>
235                                 <!--  New features --> <!--  For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
236                                 <em>General</em>
237                                 <ul>
238                                         <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually called
239                                                 i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
240                                         <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
241                                                 Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
242                                         <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
243                                                 alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
244                                         <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution percentages
245                                                 shown in logo tooltip.</li>
246                                         <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
247                                                 annotation when alignment first opened</li>
248                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
249                                 <ul>
250                                         <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure prediction
251                                                 VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
252                                         <li>Select columns containing particular features from Feature
253                                                 Settings dialog</li>
254                                         <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
255                                                 sequences</li>
256                                         <li>Update Jalview project format:
257                                                 <ul>
258               <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
259                                                         <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to store
260                                                                 secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
261                                                         <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
262                                                                 colouring</li>
263                                                 </ul>
264                                         </li>
265                                         <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
266                                                 (PAM250)</li>
267                                         <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of flanking
268                                                 regions for an alignment</li>
269                                 </ul>
270                         </td>
271                         <td>
272                                 <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
273                                 <ul>
274                                         <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
275                                                 running after job is cancelled</li>
276                                         <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
277                                                 Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
278                                         <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take float
279                                                 values</li>
280                                         <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't have
281                                                 'display all symbols' flag set</li>
282                                         <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
283                                                 annotation shading not saved in jalview project</li>
284                                         <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded Jalview</li>
285                                         <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart</li>
286                                         <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
287                                         <li>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
288                                         <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
289                                                 alignment onto desktop</li>
290                                         <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
291                                                 'extract scores' function</li>
292                                         <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
293                                                 alignment window</li>
294                                         <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after performing
295                                                 IUPred disorder prediction</li>
296                                         <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
297                                                 changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
298                                         <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
299                                                 nothing matches query</li>
300                                         <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by feature
301                                                 with lots of groups<!--  possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
302                                         </li>
303                                         <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment don't
304                                                 overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
305                                         </li>
306                                         <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in Jalview's
307                                                 menu</li>
308                                         <li>JAVAWS version of jalview fails to launch with 'invalid
309                                                 literal/length code'</li>
310                                         <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied to
311                                                 alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
312             <li>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default colourscheme</li>
313
314                                 </ul> <em>Applet</em>
315                                 <ul>
316                                         <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is not a
317                                                 group</li>
318                                         <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes don't
319                                                 affect groups</li>
320                                                 <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid colourscheme name</li>
321                                                 <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
322                                                 <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and embedded windows</li>
323                                 </ul> <em>Other</em>
324                                 <ul>
325                                         <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a single
326                                                 sequence were not calculated</li>
327                                         <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
328                                                 annotation and junk sequences</li>
329                                         <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
330                                                 recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
331                                         <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option doesn't
332                                                 affect background (2.8.0b1)
333                                         <li></li>
334                                         <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
335                                         <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
336                                                 trailing gaps</li>
337                                         <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not registered
338                                                 correctly on import</li>
339                                         <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for certain
340                                                 alignments</li>
341                                         <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an existing
342                                                 annotation based 'use original colours' colourscheme loses
343                                                 original colours setting</li>
344                                 </ul>
345                         </td>
346                 </tr>
347                 <tr>
348         <td><div align="center">
349         <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br/><em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
350         </div>
351         </td>
352       <td>
353         <ul>
354           <li>Trusted certificates for JalviewLite applet and
355             Jalview Desktop application<br />Certificate was donated by
356             <a href="https://www.certum.eu">Certum</a> to the Jalview
357             open source project).
358           </li>
359           <li>Jalview SRS links replaced by Uniprot and EBI-search
360           </li>
361           <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
362           <li>Allow import of data from gzipped files</li>
363           <li>Export/import group and sequence associated line
364             graph thresholds</li>
365           <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix that supports RNA and
366             ambiguity codes</li>
367           <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
368             selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
369             works</li>
370           <li>Groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
371         </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
372         <ul>
373           <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>
374           <li>COMBINE statement uses current SEQUENCE_REF and
375             GROUP_REF scope to group annotation rows</li>
376           <li>Support &#39;&#39; style escaping of quotes in Newick
377             files</li>
378           <li>Group options for JABAWS service by command line name</li>
379           <li>Empty tooltip shown for JABA service options with a
380             link but no description</li>
381           <li>Select primary source when selecting authority in
382             database fetcher GUI</li>
383           <li>Add .mfa to FASTA file extensions recognised by
384             Jalview</li>
385           <li>Annotation label tooltip text wrap</li>
386         </ul>
387       </td>
388       <td>
389         <ul>
390           <li>Slow scrolling when lots of annotation rows are
391             displayed</li>
392           <li>Lots of NPE (and slowness) after creating RNA
393             secondary structure annotation line</li>
394           <li>Sequence database accessions not imported when
395             fetching alignments from Rfam</li>
396           <li>Incorrect SHMR submission for sequences with
397             identical IDs</li>
398           <li>View all structures does not always superpose
399             structures</li>
400           <li>Option widgets in service parameters not updated to
401             reflect user or preset settings</li>
402           <li>Null pointer exceptions for some services without
403             presets or adjustable parameters</li>
404           <li>Discover PDB IDs entry in structure menu doesn&#39;t
405             discover PDB xRefs</li>
406           <li>Exception encountered while trying to retrieve
407             features with DAS</li>
408           <li>Lowest value in annotation row isn&#39;t coloured
409             when colour by annotation (per sequence) is coloured</li>
410           <li>Keyboard mode P jumps to start of gapped region when
411             residue follows a gap</li>
412           <li>Jalview appears to hang importing an alignment with
413             Wrap as default or after enabling Wrap</li>
414           <li>&#39;Right click to add annotations&#39; message
415             shown in wrap mode when no annotations present</li>
416           <li>Disorder predictions fail with NPE if no automatic
417             annotation already exists on alignment</li>
418           <li>oninit javascript function should be called after
419             initialisation completes</li>
420           <li>Remove redundancy after disorder prediction corrupts
421             alignment window display</li>
422           <li>Example annotation file in documentation is invalid</li>
423           <li>Grouped line graph annotation rows are not exported
424             to annotation file</li>
425           <li>Multi-harmony analysis cannot be run when only two
426             groups created</li>
427           <li>Cannot create multiple groups of line graphs with
428             several &#39;combine&#39; statements in annotation file</li>
429           <li>Pressing return several times causes Number Format
430             exceptions in keyboard mode</li>
431           <li>Multi-harmony (SHMMR) method doesn&#39;t submit
432             correct partitions for input data</li>
433           <li>Translation from DNA to Amino Acids fails</li>
434           <li>Jalview fail to load newick tree with quoted label</li>
435           <li>--headless flag isn&#39;t understood</li>
436           <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
437             mode</li>
438           <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
439             changes one row&#39;s threshold</li>            
440           <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
441             doesn&#39;t open</li>
442                                         <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
443                                                 quality histograms</li>
444                                 </ul>
445       </td>
446     </tr>
447   <tr>
448    <td><div align="center">
449      <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>12/11/2012</em>
450     </div></td>
451    <td><em>Application</em>
452     <ul><li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
453      conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega)</li>
454     <li>JABAWS server status indicator in Web Services preferences
455    </li>
456     <li>VARNA (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in
457      Jalview alignment window</li>
458     <li>Updated Jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain
459      lion, windows 7, and 8</li>
460     <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA
461      and ambiguity codes</li>
462
463     <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
464     <li>Support fetching and database reference look up against
465      multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')</li>
466     <li>Jalview project improvements
467      <ul>
468       <li>Store and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for
469        annotation</li>
470       <li>calcId attribute to group annotation rows on the
471        alignment</li>
472       <li>Store AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview
473        project</li>
474
475      </ul>
476    </li>
477     <li>horizontal scrolling gesture support</li>
478     <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running</li>
479     <li>Simpler JABA web services menus</li>
480     <li>visual indication that web service results are still being
481      retrieved from server</li>
482     <li>Serialise the dialogs that are shown when Jalview starts up
483      for first time</li>
484     <li>Jalview user agent string for interacting with HTTP
485      services</li>
486     <li>DAS 1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client
487      library</li>
488     <li>Examples directory and Groovy library included in
489      InstallAnywhere distribution</li>
490     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
491     <ul>
492      <li>RNA alignment and secondary structure annotation
493       visualization applet example</li>
494     </ul> <em>General</em>
495     <ul>
496      <li>Normalise option for consensus sequence logo</li>
497      <li>Reset button in PCA window to return dimensions to
498       defaults</li>
499      <li>Allow seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA
500       calculation</li>
501      <li>PCA with either nucleic acid and protein substitution
502       matrices
503      <li>Allow windows containing HTML reports to be exported in
504       HTML</li>
505      <li>Interactive display and editing of RNA secondary structure
506       contacts</li>
507      <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
508      <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
509      <li>Parse sequence associated secondary structure information
510       in Stockholm files</li>
511      <li>HTML Export database accessions and annotation information
512       presented in tooltip for sequences</li>
513      <li>Import secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA
514       alignment files</li>
515      <li>import and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an
516       alignment</li>
517      <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; per sequence option to
518       shade each sequence according to its associated alignment
519       annotation</li>
520      <li>New Jalview Logo</li>
521     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
522     <ul>
523      <li>documentation for score matrices used in Jalview</li>
524      <li>New Website!</li>
525     </ul></td>
526    <td><em>Application</em>
527     <ul>
528      <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
529       wsdbfetch REST service</li>
530      <li>Stop windows being moved outside desktop on OSX</li>
531      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
532      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
533       execution in full once it is complete</li>
534      <li>revise SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is
535       uploaded via ali_file parameter</li>
536      <li>Jalview 2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2</li>
537      <li>View all structures superposed fails with exception</li>
538      <li>Jnet job queues forever if a very short sequence is
539       submitted for prediction</li>
540      <li>Cut and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on
541       desktop window</li>
542      <li>Putting fractional value into integer text box in
543       alignment parameter dialog causes Jalview to hang</li>
544      <li>Structure view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
545      </li>
546      <li>View all structures fails with exception shown in
547       structure view</li>
548      <li>Characters in filename associated with PDBEntry not
549       escaped in a platform independent way</li>
550      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with exception when using
551       proxy</li>
552      <li>Tree calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more
553       sequences selected&#39; when selection is empty</li>
554      <li>Jalview desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure
555       when java web start temporary file caching is disabled</li>
556      <li>DAS Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in
557       sequence xref which includes range qualification</li>
558      <li>Errors during processing of command line arguments cause
559       progress bar (JAL-898) to be removed</li>
560      <li>Replace comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS
561       sources in sequence fetcher</li>
562      <li>Cannot close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog
563       is shown</li>
564      <li>Option widgets not updated to reflect user settings</li>
565      <li>Edited sequence not submitted to web service</li>
566      <li>Jalview 2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion</li>
567      <li>InstallAnywhere installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on
568       OSX Mountain Lion</li>
569      <li>Annotation panel not given a scroll bar when sequences
570       with alignment annotation are pasted into the alignment</li>
571      <li>Sequence associated annotation rows not associated when
572       loaded from Jalview project</li>
573      <li>Browser launch fails with NPE on java 1.7</li>
574      <li>JABAWS alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled
575       or job failed due to invalid input</li>
576      <li>NPE with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated
577       with all views</li>
578      <li>Exceptions when copy/paste sequences with grouped
579       annotation rows to new window</li>
580     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
581     <ul>
582      <li>Sequence features are momentarily displayed before they
583       are hidden using hidefeaturegroups applet parameter</li>
584      <li>loading features via javascript API automatically enables
585       feature display</li>
586      <li>scrollToColumnIn javascript API method doesn&#39;t work</li>
587     </ul> <em>General</em>
588     <ul>
589      <li>Redundancy removal fails for rna alignment</li>
590      <li>PCA calculation fails when sequence has been selected and
591       then deselected</li>
592      <li>PCA window shows grey box when first opened on OSX</li>
593      <li>Letters coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment
594       coloured with clustalx</li>
595      <li>Choosing fonts without letter symbols defined causes
596       exceptions and redraw errors</li>
597      <li>Initial PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured
598       view</li>
599      <li>Grouped annotation graph label has incorrect line colour</li>
600      <li>Grouped annotation graph label display is corrupted for
601       lots of labels</li>
602     </ul>
603   </tr>
604   <tr>
605    <td>
606     <div align="center">
607      <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
608     </div>
609    </td>
610    <td><em>Application</em>
611     <ul>
612      <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
613      <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
614      <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
615       specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
616       colours/correspondences from</li>
617      <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
618      <li>Extend Jalview project to preserve associations between
619       many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
620      <li>Store annotation row height in Jalview project file</li>
621      <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
622       in project file</li>
623      <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
624       preserved in Jalview project file</li>
625      <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
626       using Desktop window menu</li>
627      <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
628       being processed</li>
629      <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
630      <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
631       preferences</li>
632      <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
633       alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
634       IDs</li>
635      <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
636      <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
637       in same window</li>
638      <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
639      <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
640       analysis function in its own submenu</li>
641     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
642     <ul>
643      <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
644      <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
645      <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
646      <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
647      <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
648      <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
649       annotated from GFF/Jalview features files</li>
650      <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
651      <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
652       parameters are treated as such</li>
653      <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
654       <ul>
655        <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
656        <li>Javascript callbacks for
657         <ul>
658          <li>Applet initialisation</li>
659          <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
660         </ul>
661        </li>
662        <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
663        <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
664        <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
665         between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
666        <li>sortBy method</li>
667        <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
668         documentation</li>
669        <li>New example to demonstrate JalviewLite and Jmol
670         javascript message exchange</li>
671       </ul>
672     </ul> <em>General</em>
673     <ul>
674      <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
675       multiple alignments</li>
676      <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
677      <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
678       www.Jalview.org mirror</li>
679      <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
680      <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
681       other flat files</li>
682      <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
683       html tags</li>
684     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
685     <ul>
686      <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
687      </li>
688      <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
689       web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
690      <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
691      <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
692       archive</li>
693      <li>Netbeans project for building Jalview from source</li>
694      <li>ant task to create online javadoc for Jalview source</li>
695     </ul></td>
696    <td><em>Application</em>
697     <ul>
698      <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
699       built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
700      <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
701       valid filename/format</li>
702      <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
703      <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
704      <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
705       sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
706      <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
707       matches sequence IDs</li>
708      <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
709      <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
710       cannot be loaded</li>
711      <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
712      <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
713       sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
714       associated sequence</li>
715      <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
716       preserved when project is loaded</li>
717      <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
718       in Jalview project</li>
719      <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a Jalview
720       project</li>
721      <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
722      <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
723       conservation</li>
724      <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
725       created on new view</li>
726      <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
727       hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
728      <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
729       row is hidden then shown</li>
730      <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in
731       pre Jalview 2.7 projects</li>
732      <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
733      </li>
734      <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
735       services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
736      <li>Annotation off by one in Jalview v2_3 example project</li>
737      <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
738       name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
739      <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
740       execution in full once it is complete</li>
741     </ul> <em>Applet</em>
742     <ul>
743      <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
744       rows are displayed</li>
745      <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
746       codebase</li>
747      <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
748       sequences</li>
749      <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
750      <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
751      <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
752       javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
753       parameter</li>
754      <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
755       alignment with no existing selection</li>
756      <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
757       applet&#39;s codebase</li>
758      <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
759       wraps around to first result</li>
760      <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
761       Jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
762      <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
763       sent from Jmol in applet</li>
764      <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
765       fatally hang browser</li>
766     </ul> <em>General</em>
767     <ul>
768      <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
769       with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
770      <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
771       hidden columns</li>
772      <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
773       off by 1</li>
774      <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
775       import PDB like structure files</li>
776      <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
777       user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
778      <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
779      <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
780       sequence position</li>
781      <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
782      <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
783       nucleotide chains correctly</li>
784      <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
785       in alignment</li>
786      <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
787       parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
788      <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
789      </li>
790      <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
791      <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
792       associated with their pdb files</li>
793     </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
794     <ul>
795      <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
796       tool</li>
797     </ul></td>
798   </tr>
799   <tr>
800                         <td>
801                                 <div align="center">
802                                         <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a>
803                                         </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
804                                 </div></td>
805                         <td><em>Application</em>
806                                 <ul>
807                                         <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot contact
808                                                 web services</li>
809                                         <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in service
810                                                 job window</li>
811                                         <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
812                                 </ul></td>
813                         <td>
814                                 <ul>
815                                         <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a pir
816                                                 file emitted by Jalview</li>
817                                         <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new alignment
818                                                 view created from cut'n'paste</li>
819                                         <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
820                                                 parsing PDB files</li>
821                                         <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows occasionally
822                                                 become blank for all new windows</li>
823                                         <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences in
824                                                 wrapped view mode</li>
825                                 </ul> <em>Application</em>
826                                 <ul>
827                                         <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu usage
828                                                 to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
829                                         <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
830                                                 parameter names</li>
831                                         <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server is
832                                                 down</li>
833                                 </ul></td>
834                 </tr>
835                 <tr>
836                 <td>
837                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br>
838                 <em>26/9/2010</em></div>
839                 </td>
840                 <td><em>Application</em>
841                 <ul>
842                         <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
843                         <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices (JABAWS)</li>
844                         <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
845                         <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined preferences</li>
846                         <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
847                         <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence alignment</li>
848                         <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer</li>
849                 </ul>
850                 <em>Applet</em>
851                 <ul>
852                         <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the link out
853                         mechanism</li>
854                 </ul>
855                 <em>Other</em>
856                 <ul>
857                         <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol series
858                         12</li>
859                         <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now require Java
860                         1.5</li>
861                         <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF sequence
862                         annotation files</li>
863                         <li>New 'colour by label' keword in Jalview feature file type
864                         colour specification</li>
865                         <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a script
866                         to check if it being run in an interactive session or in a batch
867                         operation from the Jalview command line</li>
868                 </ul>
869                 </td>
870                 <td>
871                 <ul>
872                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
873                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
874                 </ul>
875
876                 <em>Application</em>
877                 <ul>
878                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
879                         selected Regions menu item</li>
880                         <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is part
881                         of a valid accession ID</li>
882                         <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher runs out
883                         of memory</li>
884                         <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca analysis
885                         results</li>
886                         <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5
887                         update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
888                         <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
889                 </ul>
890                 <em>Applet</em>
891                 <ul>
892                         <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
893                         ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are defined.</li>
894                 </ul>
895                 </td>
896         </tr>
897         <tr>
898                 <td>
899                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br>
900                 <em>14/6/2010</em></div>
901                 </td>
902                 <td></td>
903                 <td>
904                 <ul>
905                         <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long sequence IDs
906                         </li>
907                         <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
908                         D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
909                         <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not import
910                         correctly</li>
911                         <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a number
912                         of columns are hidden</li>
913                         <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
914                         add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are present</li>
915                         <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats, and
916                         parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
917                         <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage of all
918                         symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
919
920                 </ul>
921                 <em>Applet</em>
922                 <ul>
923                         <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
924                         hidden/removed</li>
925                 </ul>
926                 <em>Application</em>
927                 <ul>
928                         <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new alignment
929                         opened where annotation panel is visible but no annotations are
930                         present on alignment</li>
931                         <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is incorrectly
932                         displayed in new alignment window</li>
933                         <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is flooded
934                         (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
935                         <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
936                         selected Rregions menu item.</li>
937                         <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry 'Un' or
938                         'Non'conserved</li>
939                         <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by multiple
940                         distinct alignments</li>
941                         <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
942                         changed</li>
943                         <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences does
944                         not propagate to associated trees</li>
945                         <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
946                         <ul>
947                                 <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop window
948                                 background</li>
949                                 <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application name set
950                                 correctly</li>
951                                 <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the save
952                                 feature colourscheme button</li>
953                         </ul>
954                         </li>
955                 </ul>
956                 </td>
957         </tr>
958         <tr>
959
960                 <td>
961                 <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br>
962                 <em>30/4/2010</em></div>
963                 </td>
964                 <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
965                 <ul>
966                         <li>URL links generated from description line for
967                         regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
968                         <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu</li>
969                         <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures</li>
970                         <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the
971                         currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
972                         <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average
973                         score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
974                         <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
975                         <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of selected
976                         subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
977                         <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to hide
978                         everything but the currently selected region.</li>
979                         <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
980                 </ul>
981                 <em>Application</em>
982                 <ul>
983                         <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
984                         retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
985                         <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
986                         or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
987                         <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as database
988                         references and protein_name is parsed as description line (BioSapiens
989                         terms).</li>
990                         <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
991                         references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
992                         <!--                    <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
993                         in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
994                         <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and conservation
995                         plots</li>
996                         <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and
997                         visualized as sequence logos</li>
998                         <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within
999                         each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet --></li>
1000                         <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
1001                         new tree is opened.</li>
1002                         <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
1003                         <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving between
1004                         different screens.</li>
1005                         <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and consensus
1006                         annotation</li>
1007                         <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to <a
1008                                 href="webServices/index.html#envision2">Envision2</a> Workflows</li>
1009                         <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
1010                         <ul>
1011                                 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (Jalview archive used to
1012                                 preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
1013                                 <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command
1014                                 line</li>
1015                                 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
1016                                 VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
1017                                 <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
1018                         </ul>
1019                         </li>
1020                 </ul>
1021                 <em>Applet</em>
1022                 <ul>
1023                         <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
1024                         <li>New Parameters
1025                         <ul>
1026                                 <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the associated
1027                                 alignment view by the tree when a new tree is opened.</li>
1028                                 <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide branch
1029                                 bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
1030                                 <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide branch
1031                                 lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
1032                                 <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
1033                                 unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree view</li>
1034                                 <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) - increase the
1035                                 height or width of a cell in the alignment grid relative to the
1036                                 current font size.</li>
1037                         </ul>
1038                         </li>
1039                         <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
1040                 </ul>
1041                 <em>Other</em>
1042                 <ul>
1043                         <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
1044                         specification of feature scores</li>
1045                         <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
1046                         associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
1047                         properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
1048                         <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
1049                         colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile visualization
1050                         settings.</li>
1051                 </td>
1052                 <td>
1053                 <ul>
1054                         <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather
1055                         than description</li>
1056                         <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence feature
1057                         and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature visibility in
1058                         tooltip).</li>
1059                         <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
1060                         <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
1061                         documentation.</li>
1062                         <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in
1063                         peptide product</li>
1064                         <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence
1065                         ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper
1066                         case to match case-insensitively.</li>
1067                         <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character
1068                         column annotation labels</li>
1069                         <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with
1070                         documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and
1071                         re-imported)</li>
1072                         <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name</li>
1073                         <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as
1074                         subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.</li>
1075                         <li>Application:
1076                         <ul>
1077                                 <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
1078                                 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text
1079                                 excludes the start_end suffix</li>
1080                                 <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled when
1081                                 fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
1082                                 <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
1083                                 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
1084                                 <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1085                                 sources</li>
1086                                 <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes
1087                                 before alignment figures are generated.</li>
1088                                 <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for first
1089                                 time.</li>
1090                                 <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
1091                                 submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
1092                                 <li>User defined group colours properly recovered from Jalview
1093                                 projects.</li>
1094                         </ul>
1095                         </li>
1096                 </ul>
1097                 </td>
1098
1099         </tr>
1100         <tr>
1101                 <td>
1102                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4.0.b2</strong><br>
1103                 28/10/2009</div>
1104                 </td>
1105                 <td>
1106                 <ul>
1107                         <li>Experimental support for google analytics usage tracking.</li>
1108                         <li>Jalview privacy settings (user preferences and docs).</li>
1109                 </ul>
1110                 </td>
1111                 <td>
1112                 <ul>
1113                         <li>Race condition in applet preventing startup in jre1.6.0u12+.</li>
1114                         <li>Exception when feature created from selection beyond length
1115                         of sequence.</li>
1116                         <li>Allow synthetic PDB files to be imported gracefully</li>
1117                         <li>Sequence associated annotation rows associate with all
1118                         sequences with a given id</li>
1119                         <li>Find function matches case-insensitively for sequence ID
1120                         string searches</li>
1121                         <li>Non-standard characters do not cause pairwise alignment to
1122                         fail with exception</li>
1123                 </ul>
1124                 <em>Application Issues</em>
1125                 <ul>
1126                         <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database</li>
1127                         <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
1128                         sources</li>
1129                 </ul>
1130                 <em>InstallAnywhere Issues</em>
1131                 <ul>
1132                         <li>Dock icon works for Mac OS X java (Mac 1.6 update issue with
1133                         installAnywhere mechanism)</li>
1134                         <li>Command line launching of JARs from InstallAnywhere version
1135                         (java class versioning error fixed)</li>
1136                 </ul>
1137                 </td>
1138         </tr>
1139         <tr>
1140                 <td>
1141
1142                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
1143                 27/8/2008</div>
1144                 </td>
1145                 <td><em>User Interface</em>
1146                 <ul>
1147                         <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
1148                         and protein products</li>
1149                         <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue
1150                         mapping to codon position</li>
1151                         <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and
1152                         'clear' button</li>
1153                         <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
1154                         <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric
1155                         data in description line</li>
1156                         <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
1157                         <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of
1158                         sequence</li>
1159                 </ul>
1160                 <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
1161                 <ul>
1162                         <li>JPred3 web service</li>
1163                         <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services
1164                         available yet)</li>
1165                         <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
1166                         <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as
1167                         well as sequence ID</li>
1168                         <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
1169                 </ul>
1170                 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
1171                 <ul>
1172                         <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
1173                         </li>
1174                         <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
1175                         all fetchable databases</li>
1176                         <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence
1177                         command</li>
1178                 </ul>
1179                 <em>Import and Export</em>
1180                 <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
1181                 <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
1182                 products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
1183                 <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
1184                 <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB
1185                 triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
1186                 </ul>
1187                 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
1188                 <ul>
1189                         <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
1190                         <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
1191                         (experimental)</li>
1192                         <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
1193                         <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
1194                 </ul>
1195                 <em>Application command line</em>
1196                 <ul>
1197                         <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
1198                         applet)</li>
1199                         <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of DAS
1200                         servers to query for alignment features</li>
1201                         <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that are
1202                         also automatically queried for features</li>
1203                         <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy script
1204                         after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
1205                 </ul>
1206                 <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>
1207                 <ul>
1208                         <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
1209                         application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
1210                 </ul>
1211                 <em>Applet Parameters</em>
1212                 <ul>
1213                         <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
1214                         <li>debug parameter</li>
1215                         <li>showbutton parameter</li>
1216                 </ul>
1217                 <em>Applet API methods</em>
1218                 <ul>
1219                         <li>newView public method</li>
1220                         <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
1221                         <li>Feature display control methods</li>
1222                         <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
1223                 </ul>
1224                 <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
1225                 <ul>
1226                         <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li>
1227                         <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
1228                         release.</li>
1229                         <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
1230                         property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
1231                         <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
1232                         <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
1233                         <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
1234                         jalview.bin.Cache</li>
1235                         <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development
1236                         version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>
1237                 </ul>
1238
1239                 </td>
1240                 <td>
1241                 <ul>
1242                         <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
1243                         certain formats)</li>
1244                         <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
1245                         editing</li>
1246                         <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
1247                         <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
1248                         <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
1249                         <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
1250                         comments</li>
1251                         <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
1252                         filenames containing a ':'</li>
1253                         <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
1254                         sequence features</li>
1255                         <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
1256                         references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
1257                         <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
1258                         causes cascading exceptions</li>
1259                         <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
1260                         <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
1261                         parsing fails.</li>
1262                         <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
1263                         <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a
1264                         valid output format</li>
1265                         <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
1266                         <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
1267                         <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
1268                         <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
1269                         is edited</li>
1270                         <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
1271                         generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
1272                         <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
1273                         <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import
1274                         fixed for PFAM records</li>
1275                         <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window
1276                         list</li>
1277                         <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
1278                         read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
1279                         <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly</li>
1280                         <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
1281                         for representatives in Applet</li>
1282                         <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
1283                         <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
1284                         <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
1285                         null pointer exceptions</li>
1286                         <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
1287                         column of alignment</li>
1288                         <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July
1289                         2008</li>
1290                         <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is
1291                         case-insensitive</li>
1292                         <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all
1293                         sequences with matching IDs</li>
1294                         <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views
1295                         containing a sub-sequence</li>
1296                         <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
1297                         <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to
1298                         different directories are retrieved correctly</li>
1299                         <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
1300                         <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen
1301                         version check to complete</li>
1302                         <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when
1303                         passing them to the launchApp service</li>
1304                         <li>display name and local features preserved in results
1305                         retrieved from web service</li>
1306                         <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence
1307                         fetcher initialisation</li>
1308                         <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS
1309                         client</li>
1310                         <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
1311                         <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em>
1312                         sequences</li>
1313                 </ul>
1314                 </td>
1315         </tr>
1316         <tr>
1317                 <td>
1318                 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
1319                 9/5/07</div>
1320                 </td>
1321                 <td>
1322                 <ul>
1323                         <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
1324                         <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
1325                         <li>Slide sequences</li>
1326                         <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
1327                         <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
1328                         <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
1329                         <li>Feature ordering</li>
1330                         <li>Alignment Properties</li>
1331                         <li>Annotation Scores</li>
1332                         <li>Sort by scores</li>
1333                         <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
1334                 </ul>
1335                 </td>
1336                 <td>
1337                 <ul>
1338                         <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
1339                         <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
1340                         <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
1341                         <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
1342                         <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
1343                         <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
1344                         <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
1345                         <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
1346                         <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
1347                         <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
1348                         <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
1349                 </ul>
1350                 </td>
1351
1352         </tr>
1353         <tr>
1354                 <td>
1355                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
1356                 12/2/07</div>
1357                 </td>
1358                 <td>
1359                 <ul>
1360                         <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
1361                         <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
1362                         via textbox
1363                         <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
1364                         &amp; description
1365                         <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
1366                         <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
1367                         be defined
1368                         <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
1369                         in preferences
1370                         <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
1371                         sequences
1372                 </ul>
1373                 </td>
1374                 <td>
1375                 <ul>
1376                         <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
1377                         <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
1378                         <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
1379                 </ul>
1380                 </td>
1381         </tr>
1382         <tr>
1383                 <td>
1384                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
1385                 27/11/06</div>
1386                 </td>
1387                 <td>
1388                 <ul>
1389                         <li>Multiple views on alignment
1390                         <li>Sequence feature editing
1391                         <li>&quot;Reload&quot; alignment
1392                         <li>&quot;Save&quot; to current filename
1393                         <li>Background dependent text colour
1394                         <li>Right align sequence ids
1395                         <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
1396                         <li>Format Menu
1397                         <li>Select Menu
1398                         <li>Menu item accelerator keys
1399                         <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
1400                         <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
1401                         <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
1402                         <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
1403                         <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
1404                 </ul>
1405                 </td>
1406                 <td>
1407                 <ul>
1408                         <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
1409                         <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
1410                         calculations
1411                         <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
1412                         <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
1413                         alignment)
1414                         <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
1415                         <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
1416                         correctly
1417                         <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
1418                         <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
1419                         results
1420                         <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by &#8739;
1421                         <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
1422                         <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
1423                         <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
1424                 </ul>
1425                 </td>
1426         </tr>
1427         <tr>
1428                 <td>
1429                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
1430                 12/9/06</div>
1431                 </td>
1432                 <td>
1433                 <ul>
1434                         <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
1435                 </ul>
1436                 </td>
1437                 <td>
1438                 <ul>
1439                         <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
1440                         id panel has been resized</li>
1441                         <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
1442                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
1443                         file are relative to sequence position</li>
1444                         <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
1445                 </ul>
1446                 </td>
1447         </tr>
1448         <tr>
1449                 <td>
1450                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
1451                 22/8/06</div>
1452                 </td>
1453                 <td>
1454                 <ul>
1455                         <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
1456                         <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
1457                         <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
1458                         <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
1459                         <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
1460                         <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
1461                         <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
1462                         <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
1463                         <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
1464                         <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
1465                         <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
1466                         <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter &quot;sequence<em>x</em>&quot;</li>
1467                 </ul>
1468                 </td>
1469                 <td>
1470                 <ul>
1471                         <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
1472                         <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
1473                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
1474                 </ul>
1475                 </td>
1476         </tr>
1477         <tr>
1478                 <td>
1479                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
1480                 2/5/06</div>
1481                 </td>
1482                 <td>
1483                 <ul>
1484                         <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
1485                         <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
1486                         <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
1487                         the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
1488                 </ul>
1489                 </td>
1490                 <td>
1491                 <ul>
1492                         <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
1493                 </ul>
1494                 </td>
1495         </tr>
1496         <tr>
1497                 <td>
1498                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
1499                 18/4/06</div>
1500                 </td>
1501                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1502                 <td>
1503                 <ul>
1504                         <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
1505                         <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
1506                 </ul>
1507                 </td>
1508         </tr>
1509         <tr>
1510                 <td>
1511                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
1512                 10/4/06</div>
1513                 </td>
1514                 <td>
1515                 <ul>
1516                         <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
1517                         <li>Keyboard editing</li>
1518                         <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
1519                         <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
1520                         <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
1521                         <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
1522                         <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
1523                         <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
1524                 </ul>
1525                 </td>
1526                 <td>
1527                 <ul>
1528                         <li>Drag &amp; Drop fixed on Linux</li>
1529                         <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
1530                         descriptions saved.</li>
1531                 </ul>
1532                 </td>
1533         </tr>
1534         <tr>
1535                 <td>
1536                 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
1537                 12/12/05</div>
1538                 </td>
1539                 <td>
1540                 <ul>
1541                         <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
1542                         <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
1543                         <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
1544                         file output</li>
1545                         <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
1546                         <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
1547                         HTML form input</li>
1548                 </ul>
1549                 </td>
1550                 <td>
1551                 <ul>
1552                         <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
1553                         <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
1554                         <li>File IO bugs</li>
1555                 </ul>
1556                 </td>
1557         </tr>
1558         <tr>
1559                 <td>
1560                 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
1561                 28/9/05</div>
1562                 </td>
1563                 <td>
1564                 <ul>
1565                         <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
1566                         <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
1567                 </ul>
1568                 </td>
1569                 <td>
1570                 <ul>
1571                         <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
1572                         <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
1573                 </ul>
1574                 </td>
1575         </tr>
1576         <tr>
1577                 <td height="63">
1578                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
1579                 15/9/05</div>
1580                 </td>
1581                 <td>
1582                 <ul>
1583                         <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
1584                         <li>Jar files are executable</li>
1585                         <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
1586                 </ul>
1587                 </td>
1588                 <td>
1589                 <ul>
1590                         <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
1591                         <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
1592                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1593                 </ul>
1594                 </td>
1595         </tr>
1596         <tr>
1597                 <td>
1598                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
1599                 30/8/05</div>
1600                 </td>
1601                 <td>
1602                 <ul>
1603                         <li>Edit and annotate in &quot;Wrapped&quot; view</li>
1604                 </ul>
1605                 </td>
1606                 <td>
1607                 <ul>
1608                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
1609                 </ul>
1610                 </td>
1611         </tr>
1612         <tr>
1613                 <td>
1614                 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
1615                 24/8/05</div>
1616                 </td>
1617                 <td>
1618                 <ul>
1619                         <li>Hold down mouse wheel &amp; scroll to change font size</li>
1620                 </ul>
1621                 </td>
1622                 <td>
1623                 <ul>
1624                         <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
1625                         <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
1626                 </ul>
1627                 </td>
1628         </tr>
1629         <tr>
1630                 <td>
1631                 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
1632                 18/8/05</div>
1633                 </td>
1634                 <td>
1635                 <ul>
1636                         <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
1637                         <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
1638                         <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
1639                         Colour Menu</li>
1640                         <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
1641                         <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
1642                         <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
1643                         <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
1644                 </ul>
1645                 </td>
1646                 <td>
1647                 <ul>
1648                         <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
1649                 </ul>
1650                 </td>
1651         </tr>
1652         <tr>
1653                 <td>
1654                 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
1655                 18/7/05</div>
1656                 </td>
1657                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1658                 <td>
1659                 <ul>
1660                         <li>Copy &amp; Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
1661                         order.</li>
1662                 </ul>
1663                 </td>
1664         </tr>
1665         <tr>
1666                 <td>
1667                 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
1668                 12/7/05</div>
1669                 </td>
1670                 <td>
1671                 <ul>
1672                         <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
1673                         <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
1674                         <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
1675                         annotations.</li>
1676                         <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
1677                         <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
1678                         launch of Jalview.</li>
1679                 </ul>
1680                 </td>
1681                 <td>
1682                 <ul>
1683                         <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
1684                         <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
1685                         <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
1686                         <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
1687                         <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
1688                         will initiate a search.<br>
1689                         </li>
1690                 </ul>
1691                 </td>
1692         </tr>
1693         <tr>
1694                 <td>
1695                 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
1696                 20/6/05</div>
1697                 </td>
1698                 <td>
1699                 <ul>
1700                         <li>New codebase</li>
1701                 </ul>
1702                 </td>
1703                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1704         </tr>
1705 </table>
1706 <p>&nbsp;</p>
1707 </body>
1708 </html>