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1ARB change log
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3
4Fixes for arb_5.1:
5
6 * fixed a bug in 'Create species from consensus' (created sequence was corrupted)
7 * fixed 2 bugs in optimize DB (alignment w/o data, missing transaction)
8 * updated installation instructions, fixed install script, added OSX instruction (thx to Matt Cottrell)
9 * fixed broken demo.arb
10
11
12Major changes for arb_5.00:
13
14 - ARB 64bit version
15 - new genome importer
16 - search for next relatives improved (normal search and fast-aligner)
17   * new parameters to precise search
18   * improved speed
19   * partial sequence reach normal scores
20 - search&query
21   * supports regular expressions and ACI
22   * track hit information
23   * result sorting
24 - Nameservers with add.field have to be started with default value
25   You need to correct parameter -f in lib/arb_tcp.dat (according to lib/arb_tcp_org.dat)
26 - multiple PT-servers may be used in parallel
27 - fixed multiprobe
28 - type-conversion for DB fields
29 - SILVA compatible import filters
30 - Newick tree export:
31   * optionally save in human-readable format (big)
32   * closer to newick standard format (quoting style, comment, special chars in data)
33 - Upgraded RAxML to 7.0.3 (many features now usable from ARB interface)
34 - Fixed sequence quality calculation
35 - Secondary structures for proteins (DSSP)
36 - Distance matrix (arb_dist): mark by distance to selected
37 - ARB core
38   * many bugfixes and improvements to reliability
39   * faster sorting (general speedup)
40   * improved sequence compression (avoid worse trees, better ratio)
41   * improved handling of temporary files (permission/removal)
42   * prints backtraces in userland
43   * regular expression are POSIX standard now
44 - macro record/playback
45   * fixed several bugs
46   * you need to re-record your old macros!
47 - GUI:
48   * disabled auto-focus, you need to click now
49   * auto-raise windows on access
50 - Minor things:
51   * Ubuntu: packet installation for ARB
52   * Fixed novice/expert mode
53   * Mark deep/degenerated branches
54   * Increased NDS entries
55 - up-to-date Mac port (thx to Matt Cottrell)
56
57Major changes in ARB 07.12.07org:
58
59 - rewrote secondary structure editor
60 - Sequence quality check
61 - Nameserver may use one field additional to 'acc' (useful to keep multiple species with same acc)
62 - tweaked base frequency filter generation
63 - Normal export (not using readseq) improved:
64   * supports filters and gap removal
65   * optimized for big amount of data
66   * reworked export filters
67 - Display translation with different ORFs in EDIT4
68 - ARB exports in FIG 3.2 format (optionally in colors). Thanks to Elmar Pruesse.
69 - added PHYML 2.4.5 (thanks to Stephane Guidon for the permission to distribute that great tool)
70 - more compact display in EDIT4
71 - capable to use iso10646 fonts
72 - supports various gcc versions (2.95.3 - 4.1.1)
73 - fixed a bug in DB optimization (occurred when fields had bigger protection than current)
74 - Bootstrap circles may be displayed as ellipses; upper size limit configurable; uses
75   different color for size-limited circles; fixed xfig-export-bug
76 - Allows Branchlength <-> Bootstrap value transfer (lossy!)
77 - fixed several scaling bugs in "folded tree"-mode
78 - improved import-filter error-messages
79 - NDS-display of groups (e.g. in tree) is now handled by ACI-command 'taxonomy'. This gives
80   several new possibilities:
81   * export taxonomy via 'Export NDS list'
82   * display taxonomy in Editor etc.
83   * display of cascaded taxonomies
84   * display taxonomy of tree_1 in tree_2
85   * allows to write taxonomy into database field of species
86   * compare taxonomies of two trees
87   * ...
88 - ACI:
89   * many new ACI commands
90   * unified handling of binary ACI-operators
91   * tracing of ACI actions for debugging purpose
92 - ARB Neighbour joining:
93   * bootstrap limit configurable
94   * bugfix: when aborting bootstrap calculation, sometimes no tree was generated
95 - EDIT4:
96   * added unalign right (block-op)
97   * added 'Save loaded properties'
98 - GENE MAP:
99   * multiple views possible at the same time
100   * origin now at "12 o'clock"
101   * implemented 'jump to gene'
102 - tweaked file selection
103 - Enhanced Search Depth for Probe Match --> max 20 MM
104 - CLUSTALW:
105   * separated menus for fast and slow alignment
106   * most parameters accessible from inside ARB now
107 - upgraded to PHYLIP 3.6 (adds PROML)
108 - external programs may be called parallel (e.g. several treeing programs)
109 - fixed bugs in protml and integration of protml
110 - rewrote ASCII database import
111 - arb_repair for databases of any size (script for database repair)
112 - fixed bug in data compression
113 - increased internal cache size (alignments up to 400.000bp possible w/o performance collapse)
114 - ARBparsimony: increase hardcoded species limit (50.000 -> 250.000)
115 - GDE menus cleanup
116 - translation/re-alignment tweaked
117 - unalign right (EDIT4)
118 - visualization of SAIs in Probe Match Results
119 - changed formatting of probe match results; increase # of allowed matches to 100.000;
120   warn if results are truncated
121 - PT server for genes
122 - Probe design performance optimized
123 - fixed NEXUS export format
124 - exports group names into Newick format
125 - import XML tree files
126 - help for external tools now properly shown inside ARB
127
128Major changes in Beta 2003_08_22:
129
130 - automatic formatting of alignments
131 - SECEDIT may use EDIT4 colors
132 - fixed bootstrapping (DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PROTML(experimental!))
133 - updated clustalw to version 1.83
134 - Restore window sizes for ALL windows (too small sizes are ignored)
135 - new algorithm to add partial sequences to an existing tree
136 - PROT-parsimony was completely redesigned and works now most similar to DNA/RNA-parsimony
137 - Top area of ARB_NTREE may be reduced to maximize display area
138 - All arb menus may be detached (click dashed line at top of menu)
139 - visualization of SAIs (as background color behind Sequences)
140 - ARB_EDIT4 may save/use alignment-specific and alignment-type-specific properties
141 - PT-server occupies more memory => does less passes; more diagnostic output
142 - small changes to status window (unhide behavior/time estimation)
143 - menus and menu-hotkeys reorganized
144 - colored buttons in color config windows
145 - alignment concatenation (e.g. several different genes)
146 - merging data of similar species (according selected database field)
147 - keyboard commands for ARB_NTREE (mark/unmark/invert, collapse/expand)
148 - expanded sellists
149 - save/load fixed for multi probes
150 - Binary SAIs are editable in ARB_EDIT4
151 - Information windows are detachable (allows to have multiple windows showing different items)
152 - Scanning for hidden/unknown database fields improved and separated;
153   possibility to remove unused fields.
154 - new tabbed format in 'Export NDS' and 'Export matrix' (useful for star-calc/excel/etc.)
155 - updated fastDNAml to 1.2.2
156 - added AxML (accelerated fastDNAml 1.2.2)
157 - Field transfer definitions for exporting gene-species
158 - File Selection: - recursive search available
159 - The ARB_NTREE macro recording/execution has been fixed
160 - Colorize species (see demo.arb)
161 - Fixed missing-character-bug in Xfig, Print and Edit4-Info-Display
162 - 'IslandHopper' -- a new integrated aligner (beta)
163 - Many improvements and bugfixes to secondary structure editor:
164   * highlighting of search (i.e for probes) like in EDIT4
165   * interactive constraint editing (stretch/compress)
166   * probe info
167   * editing secondary structure in XFIG now possible
168   * visualization of SAIs
169 - import reads Unix, DOS, and MAC linefeeds
170 - NTREE/SAI/Etc/GnuPlot: calls gnuplot directly; more plotting features; basic help
171 - tree and sequence export to XML ( DTDs are provided in ./lib/dtd )
172   (reloading of these XML files is planned for the future)
173 - fixed problems with phylip-tree import/export (bootstrap values,comments,...)
174 - search in all database fields possible ('[all fields]')
175 - up to 10 quicksaves are kept
176 - new ACI functions: upper, lower, caps, eval
177 - variables for import filter programming
178 - extract gene-species: creates acc; extraction to existing alignments
179 - sequence of selected gene is mirrored in ARB_EDIT4/local_signature
180   (=> selected gene can be highlighted in primary editor)
181 - PCR primer-design for single genes
182 - when selecting a gene, the corresponding gene-species is selected (if found)
183 - save configuration for several windows (e.g. Search&Query, WWW, NDS, ...)
184 - file selection box in import window
185 - mark item with double click works in all search&query windows
186 - User masks: create new; 'edit enable' and 'marked' toggles (like in info window)
187 - Fixed command line help for all Arb-modules
188 - Fixed problem parsing fonts (should fix display problems with default fonts)
189 - Mark mode now works in list-view as well (ARB_NTREE)
190 - Fixed appearance of 'tiny little boxes' (everywhere)
191 - Redesign of ARB help:
192     - a HTML version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help_html
193     - a text version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help (like before, but now generated)
194
195Major changes in Beta 2001_11_07:
196
197 - design probes to maximum length of 60 nucleotides
198 - fastAligner1.03 bug fixed (chooses best match now in 'auto search' mode)
199 - import default changed to foreign data format, ali name '16s'
200 - printing of multi-page-trees works again
201 - implemented user defineable masks to access database fields
202 - fixed bugs in pt-server (lockup, unknown species just after building pt-server)
203 - improved performance during pt-server-build
204 - several programs coming along with ARB where updated (PHYLIP,...)
205 - reads EMBL genom files
206 - support for experiments (genom databases only)
207
208Major changes in Beta 2001_07_24:
209
210 - basic support for genoms (Gene Map, reads Genebank files)
211 - ported to libc6
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