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1ARB change log
2
3Fixes for arb-6.0.1 (22 Jul 2014):
4
5 - arb_parsimony
6   - skip unwanted automatic branchlength recalculations (e.g. by unfolding a group)
7   - corrected branchlength calculation for "Add marked partial species"
8   - dots were treated as gaps for protein sequences (now treated as 'X'; analog to DNA treating gaps as 'N'). thx to Yan Shi for detecting that problem!
9 - print
10   - preview failed (showed empty postscript file)
11   - print to file now always saves in user home
12 - raxml (import tree with bootstrap values)
13
14Major changes for arb-6.0 (4 Jun 2014):
15
16 - merge databases allows to
17   - merge from an existing database into the database loaded in ARB_NT
18   - merge to existing databases from the database loaded in ARB_NT
19 - ARB can now
20   - be restarted with another database and
21   - a second instance of ARB can be opened
22 - ARB_DIST
23   - Detect clusters of species with similar sequences (OTUs)
24   - allow automatic recalculation of matrix and/or tree whenever some parameter or
25     data changes (only makes sense for smaller species sets)
26   - extract distance matrix from tree
27 - Rewrote chimera check. Allows filtering
28 - added RNACMA (computes clusters of correlated positions)
29 - PT-Server
30   - changed behavior
31     - no longer report less hits for a part of a probe than for the probe itself (occurred at 3'-end of alignment)
32     - reports previously missing hits in joined genes
33     - reports more hits at 3'-end of alignment (when using mismatches the PT-server now reports possible
34       matches that go beyond the end of the sequence)
35     - dots in the middle of the alignment act like the sequence ends there
36     - minimum probe length reduced to 2 (was 6)
37     - allow up to 50% of probe to mismatch
38   - performance
39     - optimized memory-estimation (will build in fewer passes)
40     - uses any number of passes (not only 1, 5, 25, ...)
41     - allows to define used memory by setting environment variable ARB_MEMORY
42     - reduced memory needed to build/run ptserver (approx. 50%)
43     - reduced size of indexfile (.pt) to ~50%
44     - fast startup of existing ptservers
45   - probe design
46     - faster in many cases
47     - allow to design probes of length 8 (previously 10)
48     - allow to design probes with different lengths (specifying min/max length)
49     - fixed number of outgroup hits reported when decreasing temperature
50       (now each outgroup member only occurs once)
51     - show possible reasons why no probes could be designed
52   - probe match (allow any number of mismatches)
53   - next relative search
54     - can be restricted to column ranges (needs a PT-Server calculated from aligned sequences)
55     - corrected and improved scaling of relative scores
56     - more accurate scores (due to fixes in PT-Server; see below)
57     - faster in many cases
58   - show errors from ptserver build in ARB
59 - fast-aligner
60   - searches next-relatives based on selected column-block
61   - align multiple column-blocks based on SAI
62 - Rewrote alignment adaption during merge
63 - Insert/delete columns using a SAI to define affected columns
64 - ARB_EDIT4
65   - improved support for using multiple edit-windows
66   - smoother refreshes
67   - tweaked ORF display
68 - tree importer/exporter
69   - ARBs extended newick format (with bootstrap values) handled more restrictive now
70   - fixed several bugs; improved errors/warnings
71 - consensus trees
72   - calculate from multiple existing trees (also allows to merge not completely overlapping trees)
73   - fixed NJ-bootstrapping (no longer drops species)
74 - tree display
75   - Show brackets on open groups (dendrogram tree only)
76   - rewrote IRS (folded) display
77   - fixed tree key-bindings (mark, fold, ...)
78   - improved several tree-commands (move, rotate, spread, length, width)
79 - added a branch analysis tool
80   - groups several functions previously availiable via menuitems (e.g. mark long branches, etc.)
81   - added leaf-distance analysis
82 - other tree functionality
83   - treelist sortable now
84   - new beautify-tree modes (radial tree / according to other tree)
85   - function to remove marked/zombies from ALL trees
86   - create multifurcations (by branchlength/bootstrap limit)
87   - toggle 100% bootstrap values
88 - tweaked printing (interface, overlapping)
89 - if YOU edit a helpfile it will be automatically packed into an archive ready to be sent to ARB developers
90 - probe design:
91   - added LOAD to result window
92 - automation
93   - macro recording works in ARB client applications (ARB_EDIT4, ARB_PARS, ARB_MERGE, ..)
94   - arb_ntree can execute macro from command line
95   - added "Never ask again" to modal question boxes (for better compatibility with macros)
96   - a macro can be called for all marked species (once for each)
97   - macros can be nested (i.e. can call other macros)
98 - support for user-specific customization:
99   - of GDE menus (in ~/.arb_prop/gde)
100   - of import/export filters (in ~/.arb_prop/filter)
101 - ACI (some new commands, bugfixes)
102 - updated/added external tools:
103   - added FastTree (version 2.1.7)
104   - added MAFFT (version 7.055)
105   - added MrBayes (version 3.2.1)
106   - added MUSCLE (version 3.8.31)
107   - added PHYML (2013/07/08; also kept old version 2.4.5)
108   - added PROBCONS (version 1.12)
109   - updated RAxML (version 7.7.2)
110 - load/save for window specific settings (e.g. allows to share parts of configuration with other users)
111 - Support for mouse-wheel
112 - many unlisted bugfixes
113 - many internal refactorings
114
115
116Fixes for arb_5.5 (15 Nov 2012):
117
118 * arb_5.4 was broken (several external tools missing)
119
120
121Fixes for arb_5.4 (14 Nov 2012):
122
123 * make it obvious when probe matches are truncated. Truncate all hits beyond 1 million (was 100000)
124 * fixed realigner (better interaction with fields 'transl_table' and 'codon_start'; improved error handling)
125 * fixed several compilation issues (OSX; recent distro releases)
126
127
128Fixes for arb_5.3 (10 Nov 2011):
129
130 - bugfixes
131   - fixed wrong absolute/ecoli position reported for some designed probes
132   - decompression error handling (pt-server build issues)
133   - fixed 'codon_start' generated with wrong type
134   - fixed a buffer overflow in ACI
135   - report failures to write to /tmp
136 - changes
137   - markSpecies.pl:
138     mark by accession number
139     partial/ambiguous matches
140 - internal fixes
141   - compilation fixes for OSX
142   - some patches for debian version (removed refs to xview, textedit, removed molphy(protml))
143   - removed obsolete dependency from libXp
144
145
146Fixes for arb_5.2 (5 Sep 2010):
147
148 - bugfixes
149   - quicksave did silently do nothing (especially not save anything) if an error occurred
150   - ARB_EDIT4: crashed when using config with MANY unknown species
151   - ARB_SECEDIT: crashed when trying to paint strand w/o any base
152   - ARB_NTREE/ARB_PARS: crashed when clicking on inner tree node w/o groupinfo
153 - changes
154   - ARB uses xdg-open to display web-pages
155 - internal fixes
156   - karmic koala (gcc 4.4.1)
157   - installation script
158   - arb build process uses xsltproc instead of sablotron
159
160
161Fixes for arb_5.1 (1 Oct 2009):
162
163 - fixed a bug in 'Create species from consensus' (created sequence was corrupted)
164 - fixed 2 bugs in optimize DB (alignment w/o data, missing transaction)
165 - updated installation instructions, fixed install script, added OSX instruction (thx to Matt Cottrell)
166 - fixed broken demo.arb
167
168
169Major changes for arb_5.00 (4 Sep 2009):
170
171 - ARB 64bit version
172 - new genome importer
173 - search for next relatives improved (normal search and fast-aligner)
174   - new parameters to precise search
175   - improved speed
176   - partial sequence reach normal scores
177 - search&query
178   - supports regular expressions and ACI
179   - track hit information
180   - result sorting
181 - Nameservers with add.field have to be started with default value
182   You need to correct parameter -f in lib/arb_tcp.dat (according to lib/arb_tcp_org.dat)
183 - multiple PT-servers may be used in parallel
184 - fixed multiprobe
185 - type-conversion for DB fields
186 - SILVA compatible import filters
187 - Newick tree export:
188   - optionally save in human-readable format (big)
189   - closer to newick standard format (quoting style, comment, special chars in data)
190 - Upgraded RAxML to 7.0.3 (many features now usable from ARB interface)
191 - Fixed sequence quality calculation
192 - Secondary structures for proteins (DSSP)
193 - Distance matrix (arb_dist): mark by distance to selected
194 - ARB core
195   - many bugfixes and improvements to reliability
196   - faster sorting (general speedup)
197   - improved sequence compression (avoid worse trees, better ratio)
198   - improved handling of temporary files (permission/removal)
199   - prints backtraces in userland
200   - regular expression are POSIX standard now
201 - macro record/playback
202   - fixed several bugs
203   - you need to re-record your old macros!
204 - GUI:
205   - disabled auto-focus, you need to click now
206   - auto-raise windows on access
207 - Minor things:
208   - Ubuntu: packet installation for ARB
209   - Fixed novice/expert mode
210   - Mark deep/degenerated branches
211   - Increased NDS entries
212 - up-to-date Mac port (thx to Matt Cottrell)
213
214Major changes in ARB 07.12.07org (7 Dec 2007):
215
216 - rewrote secondary structure editor
217 - Sequence quality check
218 - Nameserver may use one field additional to 'acc' (useful to keep multiple species with same acc)
219 - tweaked base frequency filter generation
220 - Normal export (not using readseq) improved:
221   - supports filters and gap removal
222   - optimized for big amount of data
223   - reworked export filters
224 - Display translation with different ORFs in EDIT4
225 - ARB exports in FIG 3.2 format (optionally in colors). Thanks to Elmar Pruesse.
226 - added PHYML 2.4.5 (thanks to Stephane Guidon for the permission to distribute that great tool)
227 - more compact display in EDIT4
228 - capable to use iso10646 fonts
229 - supports various gcc versions (2.95.3 - 4.1.1)
230 - fixed a bug in DB optimization (occurred when fields had bigger protection than current)
231 - Bootstrap circles may be displayed as ellipses; upper size limit configurable; uses
232   different color for size-limited circles; fixed xfig-export-bug
233 - Allows Branchlength <-> Bootstrap value transfer (lossy!)
234 - fixed several scaling bugs in "folded tree"-mode
235 - improved import-filter error-messages
236 - NDS-display of groups (e.g. in tree) is now handled by ACI-command 'taxonomy'. This gives
237   several new possibilities:
238   - export taxonomy via 'Export NDS list'
239   - display taxonomy in Editor etc.
240   - display of cascaded taxonomies
241   - display taxonomy of tree_1 in tree_2
242   - allows to write taxonomy into database field of species
243   - compare taxonomies of two trees
244   - ...
245 - ACI:
246   - many new ACI commands
247   - unified handling of binary ACI-operators
248   - tracing of ACI actions for debugging purpose
249 - ARB Neighbour joining:
250   - bootstrap limit configurable
251   - bugfix: when aborting bootstrap calculation, sometimes no tree was generated
252 - EDIT4:
253   - added unalign right (block-op)
254   - added 'Save loaded properties'
255 - GENE MAP:
256   - multiple views possible at the same time
257   - origin now at "12 o'clock"
258   - implemented 'jump to gene'
259 - tweaked file selection
260 - Enhanced Search Depth for Probe Match --> max 20 MM
261 - CLUSTALW:
262   - separated menus for fast and slow alignment
263   - most parameters accessible from inside ARB now
264 - upgraded to PHYLIP 3.6 (adds PROML)
265 - external programs may be called parallel (e.g. several treeing programs)
266 - fixed bugs in protml and integration of protml
267 - rewrote ASCII database import
268 - arb_repair for databases of any size (script for database repair)
269 - fixed bug in data compression
270 - increased internal cache size (alignments up to 400.000bp possible w/o performance collapse)
271 - ARBparsimony: increase hardcoded species limit (50.000 -> 250.000)
272 - GDE menus cleanup
273 - translation/re-alignment tweaked
274 - unalign right (EDIT4)
275 - visualization of SAIs in Probe Match Results
276 - changed formatting of probe match results; increase # of allowed matches to 100.000;
277   warn if results are truncated
278 - PT server for genes
279 - Probe design performance optimized
280 - fixed NEXUS export format
281 - exports group names into Newick format
282 - import XML tree files
283 - help for external tools now properly shown inside ARB
284
285Major changes in Beta 2003_08_22 (22 Aug 2003):
286
287 - automatic formatting of alignments
288 - SECEDIT may use EDIT4 colors
289 - fixed bootstrapping (DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PROTML(experimental!))
290 - updated clustalw to version 1.83
291 - Restore window sizes for ALL windows (too small sizes are ignored)
292 - new algorithm to add partial sequences to an existing tree
293 - PROT-parsimony was completely redesigned and works now most similar to DNA/RNA-parsimony
294 - Top area of ARB_NTREE may be reduced to maximize display area
295 - All arb menus may be detached (click dashed line at top of menu)
296 - visualization of SAIs (as background color behind Sequences)
297 - ARB_EDIT4 may save/use alignment-specific and alignment-type-specific properties
298 - PT-server occupies more memory => does less passes; more diagnostic output
299 - small changes to status window (unhide behavior/time estimation)
300 - menus and menu-hotkeys reorganized
301 - colored buttons in color config windows
302 - alignment concatenation (e.g. several different genes)
303 - merging data of similar species (according selected database field)
304 - keyboard commands for ARB_NTREE (mark/unmark/invert, collapse/expand)
305 - expanded sellists
306 - save/load fixed for multi probes
307 - Binary SAIs are editable in ARB_EDIT4
308 - Information windows are detachable (allows to have multiple windows showing different items)
309 - Scanning for hidden/unknown database fields improved and separated;
310   possibility to remove unused fields.
311 - new tabbed format in 'Export NDS' and 'Export matrix' (useful for star-calc/excel/etc.)
312 - updated fastDNAml to 1.2.2
313 - added AxML (accelerated fastDNAml 1.2.2)
314 - Field transfer definitions for exporting gene-species
315 - File Selection: - recursive search available
316 - The ARB_NTREE macro recording/execution has been fixed
317 - Colorize species (see demo.arb)
318 - Fixed missing-character-bug in Xfig, Print and Edit4-Info-Display
319 - 'IslandHopper' -- a new integrated aligner (beta)
320 - Many improvements and bugfixes to secondary structure editor:
321   - highlighting of search (i.e for probes) like in EDIT4
322   - interactive constraint editing (stretch/compress)
323   - probe info
324   - editing secondary structure in XFIG now possible
325   - visualization of SAIs
326 - import reads Unix, DOS, and MAC linefeeds
327 - NTREE/SAI/Etc/GnuPlot: calls gnuplot directly; more plotting features; basic help
328 - tree and sequence export to XML ( DTDs are provided in ./lib/dtd )
329   (reloading of these XML files is planned for the future)
330 - fixed problems with phylip-tree import/export (bootstrap values,comments,...)
331 - search in all database fields possible ('[all fields]')
332 - up to 10 quicksaves are kept
333 - new ACI functions: upper, lower, caps, eval
334 - variables for import filter programming
335 - extract gene-species: creates acc; extraction to existing alignments
336 - sequence of selected gene is mirrored in ARB_EDIT4/local_signature
337   (=> selected gene can be highlighted in primary editor)
338 - PCR primer-design for single genes
339 - when selecting a gene, the corresponding gene-species is selected (if found)
340 - save configuration for several windows (e.g. Search&Query, WWW, NDS, ...)
341 - file selection box in import window
342 - mark item with double click works in all search&query windows
343 - User masks: create new; 'edit enable' and 'marked' toggles (like in info window)
344 - Fixed command line help for all Arb-modules
345 - Fixed problem parsing fonts (should fix display problems with default fonts)
346 - Mark mode now works in list-view as well (ARB_NTREE)
347 - Fixed appearance of 'tiny little boxes' (everywhere)
348 - Redesign of ARB help:
349     - a HTML version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help_html
350     - a text version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help (like before, but now generated)
351
352Major changes in Beta 2001_11_07 (7 Nov 2001):
353
354 - design probes to maximum length of 60 nucleotides
355 - fastAligner1.03 bug fixed (chooses best match now in 'auto search' mode)
356 - import default changed to foreign data format, ali name '16s'
357 - printing of multi-page-trees works again
358 - implemented user defineable masks to access database fields
359 - fixed bugs in pt-server (lockup, unknown species just after building pt-server)
360 - improved performance during pt-server-build
361 - several programs coming along with ARB where updated (PHYLIP,...)
362 - reads EMBL genom files
363 - support for experiments (genom databases only)
364
365Major changes in Beta 2001_07_24 (24 Jul 2001):
366
367 - basic support for genoms (Gene Map, reads Genebank files)
368 - ported to libc6
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