new features/resolved for 2.4.1.
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1 <html>
2 <head>
3 <title>Release History</title>
4 </head>
5 <body>
6 <p><strong>Release History</strong></p>
7 <table border="1">
8         <tr>
9                 <td width="60" nowrap>
10                 <div align="center"><em><strong>Release</strong></em></div>
11                 </td>
12                 <td>
13                 <div align="center"><em><strong>New Features</strong></em></div>
14                 </td>
15                 <td>
16                 <div align="center"><em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em></div>
17                 </td>
18         </tr>
19         <tr>
20         
21                 <td>
22                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4.1</strong><br>
23                 <em>Not Yet Released</em></div>
24                 </td>
25                 <td>
26                 <ul>
27                 <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.
28                 </li>
29                 <li>URL links generated from description line for regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
30                 </li>
31                 <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip on applet
32                 </li>
33                 <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu (applet and application)
34                 </li>
35                 <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the currently highlighted region of an alignment.
36                 </li>
37                 <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)
38                 </li>
39                 <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)
40                 </li>
41                 <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li>
42                 </ul>
43                 </td>
44                 <td>
45                 <ul>
46                 <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
47                 <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text excludes the start_end suffix (application)</li>
48                 <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file documentation.</li>
49                 <li>Sequences are now validated against EMBL database (broken in Version 2.4.0)</li>
50                 <li>Codons containing ambiguous nucleotides translated as 'X' in peptide product</li>
51                 <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
52                 </ul>
53                 </td>
54         
55         </tr>
56         <tr>
57                 <td>
58                 <div align="center"><strong>2.4</strong><br>
59                 27/8//2008</div>
60                 </td>
61                 <td>
62                         <em>User Interface</em>
63                         <ul>
64                         <li>Linked highlighting of codon and amino acid from translation
65                         and protein products</li>
66                         <li>Linked highlighting of structure associated with residue mapping to codon position</li>
67                         <li>Sequence Fetcher provides example accession numbers and 'clear' button</li>
68                         <li>MemoryMonitor added as an option under Desktop's Tools menu</li>
69                         <li>Extract score function to parse whitespace separated numeric data in description line</li>
70                         <li>Column labels in alignment annotation can be centred.</li>
71                         <li>Tooltip for sequence associated annotation give name of sequence</li>
72                         </ul>
73                         <em>Web Services and URL fetching</em>
74                         <ul>
75                         <li>JPred3 web service</li>
76                         <li>Prototype sequence search client (no public services available yet)</li>
77                         <li>Fetch either seed alignment or full alignment from PFAM</li>
78                         <li>URL Links created for matching database cross references as well as sequence ID</li> 
79                         <li>URL Links can be created using regular-expressions</li>
80                         </ul>
81                 <em>Sequence Database Connectivity</em>
82                         <ul>
83                         <li>Retrieval of cross-referenced sequences from other databases
84                         </li>
85                         <li>Generalised database reference retrieval and validation to
86                         all fetchable databases</li>
87                         <li>Fetch sequences from DAS sources supporting the sequence command</li>
88                         </ul>
89                         <em>Import and Export</em>
90                         <li>export annotation rows as CSV for spreadsheet import</li>
91                         <li>Jalview projects record alignment dataset associations, EMBL
92                         products, and cDNA sequence mappings</li>
93                         <li>Sequence Group colour can be specified in Annotation File</li>
94                         <li>Ad-hoc colouring of group in Annotation File using RGB triplet as name of colourscheme</li>
95                         </ul>
96                 <em>VAMSAS Client capabilities (Experimental)</em>
97                         <ul>
98                                 <li>treenode binding for VAMSAS tree exchange</li>
99                                 <li>local editing and update of sequences in VAMSAS alignments
100                                 (experimental)</li>
101                                 <li>Create new or select existing session to join</li>
102                                 <li>load and save of vamsas documents</li>
103                         </ul>
104         <em>Application command line</em>
105                         <ul>
106                                 <li>-tree parameter to open trees (introduced for passing from
107                                 applet)</li>
108                                 <li>-fetchfrom command line argument to specify nicknames of
109                                 DAS servers to query for alignment features</li>
110                                 <li>-dasserver command line argument to add new servers that
111                                 are also automatically queried for features</li>
112                                 <li>-groovy command line argument executes a given groovy
113                                 script after all input data has been loaded and parsed</li>
114                         </ul>
115         <em>Applet-Application data exchange</em>       
116                 <ul>
117                 <li>Trees passed as applet parameters can be passed to
118                         application (when using &quot;View in full application&quot;)</li>
119                 </ul>
120         <em>Applet Parameters</em>
121                         <ul>
122                                 <li>feature group display control parameter</li>
123                                 <li>debug parameter</li>
124                                 <li>showbutton parameter</li>
125                         </ul>
126         <em>Applet API methods</em>
127                         <ul>
128                                 <li>newView public method</li>
129                                 <li>Window (current view) specific get/set public methods</li>
130                                 <li>Feature display control methods</li>
131                                 <li>get list of currently selected sequences</li>
132                         </ul>
133         <em>New Jalview distribution features</em>
134                 <ul>
135                         <li>InstallAnywhere Installer upgraded to IA 2008 VP1</li> 
136                         <li>RELEASE file gives build properties for the latest Jalview
137                         release.</li>
138                         <li>Java 1.1 Applet build made easier and donotobfuscate
139                         property controls execution of obfuscator</li>
140                         <li>Build target for generating source distribution</li>
141                         <li>Debug flag for javacc</li>
142                         <li>.jalview_properties file is documented (slightly) in
143                         jalview.bin.Cache</li>
144             <li>Continuous Build Integration for stable and development version of Application, Applet and source distribution</li>             
145                 </ul>
146                 
147                 </td>
148                 <td>
149                 <ul>
150                         <li>selected region output includes visible annotations (for
151                         certain formats)</li>
152                         <li>edit label/displaychar contains existing label/char for
153                         editing</li>
154                         <li>update PDBEntries when DBRefEntries change (vamsas)</li>
155                         <li>shorter peptide product names from EMBL records</li>
156                         <li>Newick string generator makes compact representations</li>
157                         <li>bootstrap values parsed correctly for tree files with
158                         comments</li>
159                         <li>pathological filechooser bug avoided by not allowing
160                         filenames containing a ':'</li>
161                         <li>Fixed exception when parsing GFF files containing global
162                         sequence features</li>
163                         <li>Alignment datasets are finalized only when number of
164                         references from alignment sequences goes to zero</li>
165                         <li>Close of tree branch colour box without colour selection
166                         causes cascading exceptions</li>
167                         <li>occasional negative imgwidth exceptions</li>
168                         <li>better reporting of non-fatal warnings to user when file
169                         parsing fails.</li>
170                         <li>Save works when Jalview project is default format</li>
171                         <li>Save as dialog opened if current alignment format is not a valid output format</li>
172                         <li>Uniprot canonical names introduced for both das and vamsas</li>
173                         <li>Histidine should be midblue (not pink!) in Zappo</li>
174                         <li>error messages passed up and output when data read fails</li>
175                         <li>edit undo recovers previous dataset sequence when sequence
176                         is edited</li>
177                         <li>allow PDB files without pdb ID HEADER lines (like those
178                         generated by MODELLER) to be read in properly</li>
179                         <li>allow reading of JPred concise files as a normal filetype</li>
180                         <li>Stockholm annotation parsing and alignment properties import fixed for PFAM records
181                         </li>
182                         <li>Structure view windows have correct name in Desktop window list</li>
183                         <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
184                         read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
185                         <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly
186                         </li>
187                         <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
188                         for representatives in Applet</li>
189                         <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>
190                         <li>Newly shown features appear at top of stack (in Applet)</li>
191                         <li>Annotations added via parameter not drawn properly due to
192                         null pointer exceptions</li>
193                         <li>Secondary structure lines are drawn starting from first
194                         column of alignment</li>
195                         <li>Uniprot XML import updated for new schema release in July 2008</li>
196                         <li>Sequence feature to sequence ID match for Features file is case-insensitive</li>
197                         <li>Sequence features read from Features file appended to all sequences with matching IDs</li>
198                         <li>PDB structure coloured correctly for associated views containing a sub-sequence</li>
199                         <li>PDB files can be retrieved by applet from Jar files</li>
200                         <li>feature and annotation file applet parameters referring to different directories are retrieved correctly</li>   
201                         <!--<li>DAS Histogram Features display ( (Prlic et al) </li>-->
202                         <li>Fixed application hang whilst waiting for splash-screen version check to complete</li>
203                         <li>Applet properly URLencodes input parameter values when passing them to the launchApp service</li>
204                         <li>display name and local features preserved in results retrieved from web service</li> 
205                         <li>Visual delay indication for sequence retrieval and sequence fetcher initialisation</li>
206                         <li>updated Application to use DAS 1.53e version of dasobert DAS client</li>
207                         <li>Re-instated Full AMSA support and .amsa file association</li>
208                         <li>Fixed parsing of JNet Concise annotation <em>sans</em> sequences</li>  
209                 </ul>
210                 </td>
211         </tr>
212         <tr>
213         <td>
214                 <div align="center"><strong>2.3</strong><br>
215                 9/5/07</div>
216                 </td>
217                 <td>
218                 <ul>
219                         <li>Jmol 11.0.2 integration</li>
220                         <li>PDB views stored in Jalview XML files</li>
221                         <li>Slide sequences</li>
222                         <li>Edit sequence in place</li>
223                         <li>EMBL CDS features</li>
224                         <li>DAS Feature mapping</li>
225                         <li>Feature ordering</li>
226                         <li>Alignment Properties</li>
227                         <li>Annotation Scores</li>
228                         <li>Sort by scores</li>
229                         <li>Feature/annotation editing in applet</li>
230                 </ul>
231                 </td>
232                 <td>
233                 <ul>
234                         <li>Headless state operation in 2.2.1</li>
235                         <li>Incorrect and unstable DNA pairwise alignment</li>
236                         <li>Cut and paste of sequences with annotation</li>
237                         <li>Feature group display state in XML</li>
238                         <li>Feature ordering in XML</li>
239                         <li>blc file iteration selection using filename # suffix</li>
240                         <li>Stockholm alignment properties</li>
241                         <li>Stockhom alignment secondary structure annotation</li>
242                         <li>2.2.1 applet had no feature transparency</li>
243                         <li>Number pad keys can be used in cursor mode</li>
244                         <li>Structure Viewer mirror image resolved</li>
245                 </ul>
246                 </td>
247
248         </tr>
249         <tr>
250                 <td>
251                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2.1</strong><br>
252                 12/2/07</div>
253                 </td>
254                 <td>
255                 <ul>
256                         <li>Non standard characters can be read and displayed
257                         <li>Annotations/Features can be imported/exported to the applet
258                         via textbox
259                         <li>Applet allows editing of sequence/annotation/group name
260                         &amp; description
261                         <li>Preference setting to display sequence name in italics
262                         <li>Annotation file format extended to allow Sequence_groups to
263                         be defined
264                         <li>Default opening of alignment overview panel can be specified
265                         in preferences
266                         <li>PDB residue numbering annotation added to associated
267                         sequences
268                 </ul>
269                 </td>
270                 <td>
271                 <ul>
272                         <li>Applet crash under certain Linux OS with Java 1.6 installed
273                         <li>Annotation file export / import bugs fixed
274                         <li>PNG / EPS image output bugs fixed
275                 </ul>
276                 </td>
277         </tr>
278         <tr>
279                 <td>
280                 <div align="center"><strong>2.2</strong><br>
281                 27/11/06</div>
282                 </td>
283                 <td>
284                 <ul>
285                         <li>Multiple views on alignment
286                         <li>Sequence feature editing
287                         <li>&quot;Reload&quot; alignment
288                         <li>&quot;Save&quot; to current filename
289                         <li>Background dependent text colour
290                         <li>Right align sequence ids
291                         <li>User-defined lower case residue colours
292                         <li>Format Menu
293                         <li>Select Menu
294                         <li>Menu item accelerator keys
295                         <li>Control-V pastes to current alignment
296                         <li>Cancel button for DAS Feature Fetching
297                         <li>PCA and PDB Viewers zoom via mouse roller
298                         <li>User-defined sub-tree colours and sub-tree selection
299                         <li>'New Window' button on the 'Output to Text box'
300                 </ul>
301                 </td>
302                 <td>
303                 <ul>
304                         <li>New memory efficient Undo/Redo System
305                         <li>Optimised symbol lookups and conservation/consensus
306                         calculations
307                         <li>Region Conservation/Consensus recalculated after edits
308                         <li>Fixed Remove Empty Columns Bug (empty columns at end of
309                         alignment)
310                         <li>Slowed DAS Feature Fetching for increased robustness.
311                         <li>Made angle brackets in ASCII feature descriptions display
312                         correctly
313                         <li>Re-instated Zoom function for PCA
314                         <li>Sequence descriptions conserved in web service analysis
315                         results
316                         <li>Uniprot ID discoverer uses any word separated by &#8739;
317                         <li>WsDbFetch query/result association resolved
318                         <li>Tree leaf to sequence mapping improved
319                         <li>Smooth fonts switch moved to FontChooser dialog box.
320                 </ul>
321                 </td>
322         </tr>
323         <tr>
324                 <td>
325                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1.1</strong><br>
326                 12/9/06</div>
327                 </td>
328                 <td>
329                 <ul>
330                         <li>Copy consensus sequence to clipboard</li>
331                 </ul>
332                 </td>
333                 <td>
334                 <ul>
335                         <li>Image output - rightmost residues are rendered if sequence
336                         id panel has been resized</li>
337                         <li>Image output - all offscreen group boundaries are rendered</li>
338                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references - all elements in
339                         file are relative to sequence position</li>
340                         <li>Mac Applet users can use Alt key for group editing</li>
341                 </ul>
342                 </td>
343         </tr>
344         <tr>
345                 <td>
346                 <div align="center"><strong>2.1</strong><br>
347                 22/8/06</div>
348                 </td>
349                 <td>
350                 <ul>
351                         <li>MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list</li>
352                         <li>DAS Feature fetching</li>
353                         <li>Hide sequences and columns</li>
354                         <li>Export Annotations and Features</li>
355                         <li>GFF file reading / writing</li>
356                         <li>Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files</li>
357                         <li>Add sequences to exisiting alignment</li>
358                         <li>Recently opened files / URL lists</li>
359                         <li>Applet can launch the full application</li>
360                         <li>Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)</li>
361                         <li>Applet has user defined colours parameter</li>
362                         <li>Applet can load sequences from parameter &quot;sequence<em>x</em>&quot;</li>
363                 </ul>
364                 </td>
365                 <td>
366                 <ul>
367                         <li>Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet</li>
368                         <li>Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed</li>
369                         <li>Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed</li>
370                 </ul>
371                 </td>
372         </tr>
373         <tr>
374                 <td>
375                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08.1</strong><br>
376                 2/5/06</div>
377                 </td>
378                 <td>
379                 <ul>
380                         <li>Change case of selected region from Popup menu</li>
381                         <li>Choose to match case when searching</li>
382                         <li>Middle mouse button and mouse movement can compress / expand
383                         the visible width and height of the alignment</li>
384                 </ul>
385                 </td>
386                 <td>
387                 <ul>
388                         <li>Annotation Panel displays complete JNet results</li>
389                 </ul>
390                 </td>
391         </tr>
392         <tr>
393                 <td>
394                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08b</strong><br>
395                 18/4/06</div>
396                 </td>
397                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
398                 <td>
399                 <ul>
400                         <li>Java 1.5 bug - InternalMessageDialog fix for threads</li>
401                         <li>Righthand label on wrapped alignments shows correct value</li>
402                 </ul>
403                 </td>
404         </tr>
405         <tr>
406                 <td>
407                 <div align="center"><strong>2.08</strong><br>
408                 10/4/06</div>
409                 </td>
410                 <td>
411                 <ul>
412                         <li>Editing can be locked to the selection area</li>
413                         <li>Keyboard editing</li>
414                         <li>Create sequence features from searches</li>
415                         <li>Precalculated annotations can be loaded onto alignments</li>
416                         <li>Features file allows grouping of features</li>
417                         <li>Annotation Colouring scheme added</li>
418                         <li>Smooth fonts off by default - Faster rendering</li>
419                         <li>Choose to toggle Autocalculate Consensus On/Off</li>
420                 </ul>
421                 </td>
422                 <td>
423                 <ul>
424                         <li>Drag &amp; Drop fixed on Linux</li>
425                         <li>Jalview Archive file faster to load/save, sequence
426                         descriptions saved.</li>
427                 </ul>
428                 </td>
429         </tr>
430         <tr>
431                 <td>
432                 <div align="center"><strong>2.07</strong><br>
433                 12/12/05</div>
434                 </td>
435                 <td>
436                 <ul>
437                         <li>PDB Structure Viewer enhanced</li>
438                         <li>Sequence Feature retrieval and display enhanced</li>
439                         <li>Choose to output sequence start-end after sequence name for
440                         file output</li>
441                         <li>Sequence Fetcher WSDBFetch@EBI</li>
442                         <li>Applet can read feature files, PDB files and can be used for
443                         HTML form input</li>
444                 </ul>
445                 </td>
446                 <td>
447                 <ul>
448                         <li>HTML output writes groups and features</li>
449                         <li>Group editing is Control and mouse click</li>
450                         <li>File IO bugs</li>
451                 </ul>
452                 </td>
453         </tr>
454         <tr>
455                 <td>
456                 <div align="center"><strong>2.06</strong><br>
457                 28/9/05</div>
458                 </td>
459                 <td>
460                 <ul>
461                         <li>View annotations in wrapped mode</li>
462                         <li>More options for PCA viewer</li>
463                 </ul>
464                 </td>
465                 <td>
466                 <ul>
467                         <li>GUI bugs resolved</li>
468                         <li>Runs with -nodisplay from command line</li>
469                 </ul>
470                 </td>
471         </tr>
472         <tr>
473                 <td height="63">
474                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05b</strong><br>
475                 15/9/05</div>
476                 </td>
477                 <td>
478                 <ul>
479                         <li>Choose EPS export as lineart or text</li>
480                         <li>Jar files are executable</li>
481                         <li>Can read in Uracil - maps to unknown residue</li>
482                 </ul>
483                 </td>
484                 <td>
485                 <ul>
486                         <li>Known OutOfMemory errors give warning message</li>
487                         <li>Overview window calculated more efficiently</li>
488                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
489                 </ul>
490                 </td>
491         </tr>
492         <tr>
493                 <td>
494                 <div align="center"><strong>2.05</strong><br>
495                 30/8/05</div>
496                 </td>
497                 <td>
498                 <ul>
499                         <li>Edit and annotate in &quot;Wrapped&quot; view</li>
500                 </ul>
501                 </td>
502                 <td>
503                 <ul>
504                         <li>Several GUI bugs resolved</li>
505                 </ul>
506                 </td>
507         </tr>
508         <tr>
509                 <td>
510                 <div align="center"><strong>2.04</strong><br>
511                 24/8/05</div>
512                 </td>
513                 <td>
514                 <ul>
515                         <li>Hold down mouse wheel &amp; scroll to change font size</li>
516                 </ul>
517                 </td>
518                 <td>
519                 <ul>
520                         <li>Improved JPred client reliability</li>
521                         <li>Improved loading of Jalview files</li>
522                 </ul>
523                 </td>
524         </tr>
525         <tr>
526                 <td>
527                 <div align="center"><strong>2.03</strong><br>
528                 18/8/05</div>
529                 </td>
530                 <td>
531                 <ul>
532                         <li>Set Proxy server name and port in preferences</li>
533                         <li>Multiple URL links from sequence ids</li>
534                         <li>User Defined Colours can have a scheme name and added to
535                         Colour Menu</li>
536                         <li>Choose to ignore gaps in consensus calculation</li>
537                         <li>Unix users can set default web browser</li>
538                         <li>Runs without GUI for batch processing</li>
539                         <li>Dynamically generated Web Service Menus</li>
540                 </ul>
541                 </td>
542                 <td>
543                 <ul>
544                         <li>InstallAnywhere download for Sparc Solaris</li>
545                 </ul>
546                 </td>
547         </tr>
548         <tr>
549                 <td>
550                 <div align="center"><strong>2.02</strong><br>
551                 18/7/05</div>
552                 </td>
553                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
554                 <td>
555                 <ul>
556                         <li>Copy &amp; Paste order of sequences maintains alignment
557                         order.</li>
558                 </ul>
559                 </td>
560         </tr>
561         <tr>
562                 <td>
563                 <div align="center"><strong>2.01</strong><br>
564                 12/7/05</div>
565                 </td>
566                 <td>
567                 <ul>
568                         <li>Use delete key for deleting selection.</li>
569                         <li>Use Mouse wheel to scroll sequences.</li>
570                         <li>Help file updated to describe how to add alignment
571                         annotations.</li>
572                         <li>Version and build date written to build properties file.</li>
573                         <li>InstallAnywhere installation will check for updates at
574                         launch of Jalview.</li>
575                 </ul>
576                 </td>
577                 <td>
578                 <ul>
579                         <li>Delete gaps bug fixed.</li>
580                         <li>FileChooser sorts columns.</li>
581                         <li>Can remove groups one by one.</li>
582                         <li>Filechooser icons installed.</li>
583                         <li>Finder ignores return character when searching. Return key
584                         will initiate a search.<br>
585                         </li>
586                 </ul>
587                 </td>
588         </tr>
589         <tr>
590                 <td>
591                 <div align="center"><strong>2.0</strong><br>
592                 20/6/05</div>
593                 </td>
594                 <td>
595                 <ul>
596                         <li>New codebase</li>
597                 </ul>
598                 </td>
599                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
600         </tr>
601 </table>
602 <p>&nbsp;</p>
603 </body>
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