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1ARB change log
2
3Fixes for arb-6.0-rc2:
4
5 - EDIT4 crashed on OSX Mavericks (when shifting bases,..)
6 - groups (tree)
7   - entering long names no longer crashes ARB
8   - empty names no longer accepted
9   - 'create group' now works if line-width of branch/subtree has been increased
10   - tree folding keys again work as they should (x c X C)
11 - macro recording
12   - again eliminates consecutive changes to same awar
13   - fix recording of main-DB-awars
14 - consensus tree generation (improved insertion order)
15 - sort by topology (now works well for big vs. small topology)
16 - remove+add all crashed arb_parsimony
17 - creating an SAI called 'none' resulted in weird behavior
18 - when no alignment/tree is selected ARB crashed or behaved strange (many fixes)
19 - help added for 'Mark duplicates' and 'Chimera check'
20
21Major changes for arb-6.0:
22
23 - merge databases allows to
24   - merge from an existing database into the database loaded in ARB_NT
25   - merge to existing databases from the database loaded in ARB_NT
26 - ARB can now
27   - be restarted with another database and
28   - a second instance of ARB can be opened
29 - ARB_DIST
30   - Detect clusters of species with similar sequences (OTUs)
31   - allow automatic recalculation of matrix and/or tree whenever some parameter or
32     data changes (only makes sense for smaller species sets)
33   - extract distance matrix from tree
34 - Rewrote chimera check. Allows filtering
35 - added RNACMA (computes clusters of correlated positions)
36 - PT-Server
37   - changed behavior
38     - no longer report less hits for a part of a probe than for the probe itself (occurred at 3'-end of alignment)
39     - reports previously missing hits in joined genes
40     - reports more hits at 3'-end of alignment (when using mismatches the PT-server now reports possible
41       matches that go beyond the end of the sequence)
42     - dots in the middle of the alignment act like the sequence ends there
43     - minimum probe length reduced to 2 (was 6)
44     - allow up to 50% of probe to mismatch
45   - performance
46     - optimized memory-estimation (will build in fewer passes)
47     - uses any number of passes (not only 1, 5, 25, ...)
48     - allows to define used memory by setting environment variable ARB_MEMORY
49     - reduced memory needed to build/run ptserver (approx. 50%)
50     - reduced size of indexfile (.pt) to ~50%
51     - fast startup of existing ptservers
52   - probe design
53     - faster in many cases
54     - allow to design probes of length 8 (previously 10)
55     - allow to design probes with different lengths (specifying min/max length)
56     - fixed number of outgroup hits reported when decreasing temperature
57       (now each outgroup member only occurs once)
58     - show possible reasons why no probes could be designed
59   - probe match (allow any number of mismatches)
60   - next relative search
61     - can be restricted to column ranges (needs a PT-Server calculated from aligned sequences)
62     - corrected and improved scaling of relative scores
63     - more accurate scores (due to fixes in PT-Server; see below)
64     - faster in many cases
65   - show errors from ptserver build in ARB
66 - fast-aligner
67   - searches next-relatives based on selected column-block
68   - align multiple column-blocks based on SAI
69 - Rewrote alignment adaption during merge
70 - Insert/delete columns using a SAI to define affected columns
71 - ARB_EDIT4
72   - improved support for using multiple edit-windows
73   - smoother refreshes
74   - tweaked ORF display
75 - tree importer/exporter
76   - ARBs extended newick format (with bootstrap values) handled more restrictive now
77   - fixed several bugs; improved errors/warnings
78 - consensus trees
79   - calculate from multiple existing trees (also allows to merge not completely overlapping trees)
80   - fixed NJ-bootstrapping (no longer drops species)
81 - tree display
82   - Show brackets on open groups (dendrogram tree only)
83   - rewrote IRS (folded) display
84   - fixed tree key-bindings (mark, fold, ...)
85   - improved several tree-commands (move, rotate, spread, length, width)
86 - added a branch analysis tool
87   - groups several functions previously availiable via menuitems (e.g. mark long branches, etc.)
88   - added leaf-distance analysis
89 - other tree functionality
90   - treelist sortable now
91   - new beautify-tree modes (radial tree / according to other tree)
92   - function to remove marked/zombies from ALL trees
93   - create multifurcations (by branchlength/bootstrap limit)
94   - toggle 100% bootstrap values
95 - tweaked printing (interface, overlapping)
96 - if YOU edit a helpfile it will be automatically packed into an archive ready to be sent to ARB developers
97 - probe design:
98   - added LOAD to result window
99 - automation
100   - macro recording works in ARB client applications (ARB_EDIT4, ARB_PARS, ARB_MERGE, ..)
101   - arb_ntree can execute macro from command line
102   - added "Never ask again" to modal question boxes (for better compatibility with macros)
103   - a macro can be called for all marked species (once for each)
104   - macros can be nested (i.e. can call other macros)
105 - support for user-specific customization:
106   - of GDE menus (in ~/.arb_prop/gde)
107   - of import/export filters (in ~/.arb_prop/filter)
108 - ACI (some new commands, bugfixes)
109 - updated/added external tools:
110   - added FastTree (version 2.1.7)
111   - added MAFFT (version 7.055)
112   - added MrBayes (version 3.2.1)
113   - added MUSCLE (version 3.8.31)
114   - added PHYML (2013/07/08; also kept old version 2.4.5)
115   - added PROBCONS (version 1.12)
116   - updated RAxML (version 7.7.2)
117 - load/save for window specific settings (e.g. allows to share parts of configuration with other users)
118 - Support for mouse-wheel
119 - many unlisted bugfixes
120 - many internal refactorings
121
122
123Fixes for arb_5.5 (15 Nov 2012):
124
125 * arb_5.4 was broken (several external tools missing)
126
127
128Fixes for arb_5.4 (14 Nov 2012):
129
130 * make it obvious when probe matches are truncated. Truncate all hits beyond 1 million (was 100000)
131 * fixed realigner (better interaction with fields 'transl_table' and 'codon_start'; improved error handling)
132 * fixed several compilation issues (OSX; recent distro releases)
133
134
135Fixes for arb_5.3 (10 Nov 2011):
136
137 - bugfixes
138   - fixed wrong absolute/ecoli position reported for some designed probes
139   - decompression error handling (pt-server build issues)
140   - fixed 'codon_start' generated with wrong type
141   - fixed a buffer overflow in ACI
142   - report failures to write to /tmp
143 - changes
144   - markSpecies.pl:
145     mark by accession number
146     partial/ambiguous matches
147 - internal fixes
148   - compilation fixes for OSX
149   - some patches for debian version (removed refs to xview, textedit, removed molphy(protml))
150   - removed obsolete dependency from libXp
151
152
153Fixes for arb_5.2 (5 Sep 2010):
154
155 - bugfixes
156   - quicksave did silently do nothing (especially not save anything) if an error occurred
157   - ARB_EDIT4: crashed when using config with MANY unknown species
158   - ARB_SECEDIT: crashed when trying to paint strand w/o any base
159   - ARB_NTREE/ARB_PARS: crashed when clicking on inner tree node w/o groupinfo
160 - changes
161   - ARB uses xdg-open to display web-pages
162 - internal fixes
163   - karmic koala (gcc 4.4.1)
164   - installation script
165   - arb build process uses xsltproc instead of sablotron
166
167
168Fixes for arb_5.1 (1 Oct 2009):
169
170 - fixed a bug in 'Create species from consensus' (created sequence was corrupted)
171 - fixed 2 bugs in optimize DB (alignment w/o data, missing transaction)
172 - updated installation instructions, fixed install script, added OSX instruction (thx to Matt Cottrell)
173 - fixed broken demo.arb
174
175
176Major changes for arb_5.00 (4 Sep 2009):
177
178 - ARB 64bit version
179 - new genome importer
180 - search for next relatives improved (normal search and fast-aligner)
181   - new parameters to precise search
182   - improved speed
183   - partial sequence reach normal scores
184 - search&query
185   - supports regular expressions and ACI
186   - track hit information
187   - result sorting
188 - Nameservers with add.field have to be started with default value
189   You need to correct parameter -f in lib/arb_tcp.dat (according to lib/arb_tcp_org.dat)
190 - multiple PT-servers may be used in parallel
191 - fixed multiprobe
192 - type-conversion for DB fields
193 - SILVA compatible import filters
194 - Newick tree export:
195   - optionally save in human-readable format (big)
196   - closer to newick standard format (quoting style, comment, special chars in data)
197 - Upgraded RAxML to 7.0.3 (many features now usable from ARB interface)
198 - Fixed sequence quality calculation
199 - Secondary structures for proteins (DSSP)
200 - Distance matrix (arb_dist): mark by distance to selected
201 - ARB core
202   - many bugfixes and improvements to reliability
203   - faster sorting (general speedup)
204   - improved sequence compression (avoid worse trees, better ratio)
205   - improved handling of temporary files (permission/removal)
206   - prints backtraces in userland
207   - regular expression are POSIX standard now
208 - macro record/playback
209   - fixed several bugs
210   - you need to re-record your old macros!
211 - GUI:
212   - disabled auto-focus, you need to click now
213   - auto-raise windows on access
214 - Minor things:
215   - Ubuntu: packet installation for ARB
216   - Fixed novice/expert mode
217   - Mark deep/degenerated branches
218   - Increased NDS entries
219 - up-to-date Mac port (thx to Matt Cottrell)
220
221Major changes in ARB 07.12.07org (7 Dec 2007):
222
223 - rewrote secondary structure editor
224 - Sequence quality check
225 - Nameserver may use one field additional to 'acc' (useful to keep multiple species with same acc)
226 - tweaked base frequency filter generation
227 - Normal export (not using readseq) improved:
228   - supports filters and gap removal
229   - optimized for big amount of data
230   - reworked export filters
231 - Display translation with different ORFs in EDIT4
232 - ARB exports in FIG 3.2 format (optionally in colors). Thanks to Elmar Pruesse.
233 - added PHYML 2.4.5 (thanks to Stephane Guidon for the permission to distribute that great tool)
234 - more compact display in EDIT4
235 - capable to use iso10646 fonts
236 - supports various gcc versions (2.95.3 - 4.1.1)
237 - fixed a bug in DB optimization (occurred when fields had bigger protection than current)
238 - Bootstrap circles may be displayed as ellipses; upper size limit configurable; uses
239   different color for size-limited circles; fixed xfig-export-bug
240 - Allows Branchlength <-> Bootstrap value transfer (lossy!)
241 - fixed several scaling bugs in "folded tree"-mode
242 - improved import-filter error-messages
243 - NDS-display of groups (e.g. in tree) is now handled by ACI-command 'taxonomy'. This gives
244   several new possibilities:
245   - export taxonomy via 'Export NDS list'
246   - display taxonomy in Editor etc.
247   - display of cascaded taxonomies
248   - display taxonomy of tree_1 in tree_2
249   - allows to write taxonomy into database field of species
250   - compare taxonomies of two trees
251   - ...
252 - ACI:
253   - many new ACI commands
254   - unified handling of binary ACI-operators
255   - tracing of ACI actions for debugging purpose
256 - ARB Neighbour joining:
257   - bootstrap limit configurable
258   - bugfix: when aborting bootstrap calculation, sometimes no tree was generated
259 - EDIT4:
260   - added unalign right (block-op)
261   - added 'Save loaded properties'
262 - GENE MAP:
263   - multiple views possible at the same time
264   - origin now at "12 o'clock"
265   - implemented 'jump to gene'
266 - tweaked file selection
267 - Enhanced Search Depth for Probe Match --> max 20 MM
268 - CLUSTALW:
269   - separated menus for fast and slow alignment
270   - most parameters accessible from inside ARB now
271 - upgraded to PHYLIP 3.6 (adds PROML)
272 - external programs may be called parallel (e.g. several treeing programs)
273 - fixed bugs in protml and integration of protml
274 - rewrote ASCII database import
275 - arb_repair for databases of any size (script for database repair)
276 - fixed bug in data compression
277 - increased internal cache size (alignments up to 400.000bp possible w/o performance collapse)
278 - ARBparsimony: increase hardcoded species limit (50.000 -> 250.000)
279 - GDE menus cleanup
280 - translation/re-alignment tweaked
281 - unalign right (EDIT4)
282 - visualization of SAIs in Probe Match Results
283 - changed formatting of probe match results; increase # of allowed matches to 100.000;
284   warn if results are truncated
285 - PT server for genes
286 - Probe design performance optimized
287 - fixed NEXUS export format
288 - exports group names into Newick format
289 - import XML tree files
290 - help for external tools now properly shown inside ARB
291
292Major changes in Beta 2003_08_22 (22 Aug 2003):
293
294 - automatic formatting of alignments
295 - SECEDIT may use EDIT4 colors
296 - fixed bootstrapping (DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PROTML(experimental!))
297 - updated clustalw to version 1.83
298 - Restore window sizes for ALL windows (too small sizes are ignored)
299 - new algorithm to add partial sequences to an existing tree
300 - PROT-parsimony was completely redesigned and works now most similar to DNA/RNA-parsimony
301 - Top area of ARB_NTREE may be reduced to maximize display area
302 - All arb menus may be detached (click dashed line at top of menu)
303 - visualization of SAIs (as background color behind Sequences)
304 - ARB_EDIT4 may save/use alignment-specific and alignment-type-specific properties
305 - PT-server occupies more memory => does less passes; more diagnostic output
306 - small changes to status window (unhide behavior/time estimation)
307 - menus and menu-hotkeys reorganized
308 - colored buttons in color config windows
309 - alignment concatenation (e.g. several different genes)
310 - merging data of similar species (according selected database field)
311 - keyboard commands for ARB_NTREE (mark/unmark/invert, collapse/expand)
312 - expanded sellists
313 - save/load fixed for multi probes
314 - Binary SAIs are editable in ARB_EDIT4
315 - Information windows are detachable (allows to have multiple windows showing different items)
316 - Scanning for hidden/unknown database fields improved and separated;
317   possibility to remove unused fields.
318 - new tabbed format in 'Export NDS' and 'Export matrix' (useful for star-calc/excel/etc.)
319 - updated fastDNAml to 1.2.2
320 - added AxML (accelerated fastDNAml 1.2.2)
321 - Field transfer definitions for exporting gene-species
322 - File Selection: - recursive search available
323 - The ARB_NTREE macro recording/execution has been fixed
324 - Colorize species (see demo.arb)
325 - Fixed missing-character-bug in Xfig, Print and Edit4-Info-Display
326 - 'IslandHopper' -- a new integrated aligner (beta)
327 - Many improvements and bugfixes to secondary structure editor:
328   - highlighting of search (i.e for probes) like in EDIT4
329   - interactive constraint editing (stretch/compress)
330   - probe info
331   - editing secondary structure in XFIG now possible
332   - visualization of SAIs
333 - import reads Unix, DOS, and MAC linefeeds
334 - NTREE/SAI/Etc/GnuPlot: calls gnuplot directly; more plotting features; basic help
335 - tree and sequence export to XML ( DTDs are provided in ./lib/dtd )
336   (reloading of these XML files is planned for the future)
337 - fixed problems with phylip-tree import/export (bootstrap values,comments,...)
338 - search in all database fields possible ('[all fields]')
339 - up to 10 quicksaves are kept
340 - new ACI functions: upper, lower, caps, eval
341 - variables for import filter programming
342 - extract gene-species: creates acc; extraction to existing alignments
343 - sequence of selected gene is mirrored in ARB_EDIT4/local_signature
344   (=> selected gene can be highlighted in primary editor)
345 - PCR primer-design for single genes
346 - when selecting a gene, the corresponding gene-species is selected (if found)
347 - save configuration for several windows (e.g. Search&Query, WWW, NDS, ...)
348 - file selection box in import window
349 - mark item with double click works in all search&query windows
350 - User masks: create new; 'edit enable' and 'marked' toggles (like in info window)
351 - Fixed command line help for all Arb-modules
352 - Fixed problem parsing fonts (should fix display problems with default fonts)
353 - Mark mode now works in list-view as well (ARB_NTREE)
354 - Fixed appearance of 'tiny little boxes' (everywhere)
355 - Redesign of ARB help:
356     - a HTML version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help_html
357     - a text version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help (like before, but now generated)
358
359Major changes in Beta 2001_11_07 (7 Nov 2001):
360
361 - design probes to maximum length of 60 nucleotides
362 - fastAligner1.03 bug fixed (chooses best match now in 'auto search' mode)
363 - import default changed to foreign data format, ali name '16s'
364 - printing of multi-page-trees works again
365 - implemented user defineable masks to access database fields
366 - fixed bugs in pt-server (lockup, unknown species just after building pt-server)
367 - improved performance during pt-server-build
368 - several programs coming along with ARB where updated (PHYLIP,...)
369 - reads EMBL genom files
370 - support for experiments (genom databases only)
371
372Major changes in Beta 2001_07_24 (24 Jul 2001):
373
374 - basic support for genoms (Gene Map, reads Genebank files)
375 - ported to libc6
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