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1ARB change log
2
3Major changes for next release:
4
5 - Detect clusters of species with similar sequences (OTUs) in ARB_DIST
6 - Rewrote chimera check. Allows filtering
7 - added RNACMA (computes clusters of correlated positions)
8 - Next relative search
9   - can be restricted to column ranges (needs a PT-Server calculated from aligned sequences)
10   - corrected and improved scaling of relative scores
11 - fast-aligner
12   - searches next-relatives based on selected column-block
13   - align multiple column-blocks based on SAI
14 - Rewrote alignment adaption during merge
15 - EDIT4
16   - improved support for using multiple edit-windows
17   - smoother refreshes
18   - tweaked ORF display
19 - consense trees
20   - calculate from multiple existing trees
21   - fixed NJ-bootstrapping (no longer drops species)
22 - trees sortable now
23 - tree display
24   - Show brackets on open groups (dendrogram tree only)
25   - rewrote IRS (folded) display
26 - tweaked printing (interface, overlapping)
27 - automation
28   - tweaked macro recording
29   - arb_ntree can execute macro from command line
30   - added "Never ask again" to modal question boxes (for better compatibility with macros)
31 - load/save for window specific settings (e.g. allows to share parts of configuration with other users)
32 - Support for mouse-wheel
33 - many internal refactorings
34
35
36Fixes for arb_5.3:
37
38 * bugfixes
39   - fixed wrong absolute/ecoli position reported for some designed probes
40   - decompression error handling (pt-server build issues)
41   - fixed 'codon_start' generated with wrong type
42   - fixed a buffer overflow in ACI
43   - report failures to write to /tmp
44 * changes
45   - markSpecies.pl:
46     mark by accession number
47     partial/ambiguous matches
48 * internal fixes
49   - compilation fixes for OSX
50   - some patches for debian version (removed refs to xview, textedit, removed molphy(protml))
51   - removed obsolete dependency from libXp
52
53
54Fixes for arb_5.2:
55
56 * bugfixes
57   - quicksave did silently do nothing (especially not save anything) if an error occurred
58   - ARB_EDIT4: crashed when using config with MANY unknown species
59   - ARB_SECEDIT: crashed when trying to paint strand w/o any base
60   - ARB_NTREE/ARB_PARS: crashed when clicking on inner tree node w/o groupinfo
61 * changes
62   - ARB uses xdg-open to display web-pages
63 * internal fixes
64   - karmic koala (gcc 4.4.1)
65   - installation script
66   - arb build process uses xsltproc instead of sablotron
67
68
69Fixes for arb_5.1:
70
71 * fixed a bug in 'Create species from consensus' (created sequence was corrupted)
72 * fixed 2 bugs in optimize DB (alignment w/o data, missing transaction)
73 * updated installation instructions, fixed install script, added OSX instruction (thx to Matt Cottrell)
74 * fixed broken demo.arb
75
76
77Major changes for arb_5.00:
78
79 - ARB 64bit version
80 - new genome importer
81 - search for next relatives improved (normal search and fast-aligner)
82   * new parameters to precise search
83   * improved speed
84   * partial sequence reach normal scores
85 - search&query
86   * supports regular expressions and ACI
87   * track hit information
88   * result sorting
89 - Nameservers with add.field have to be started with default value
90   You need to correct parameter -f in lib/arb_tcp.dat (according to lib/arb_tcp_org.dat)
91 - multiple PT-servers may be used in parallel
92 - fixed multiprobe
93 - type-conversion for DB fields
94 - SILVA compatible import filters
95 - Newick tree export:
96   * optionally save in human-readable format (big)
97   * closer to newick standard format (quoting style, comment, special chars in data)
98 - Upgraded RAxML to 7.0.3 (many features now usable from ARB interface)
99 - Fixed sequence quality calculation
100 - Secondary structures for proteins (DSSP)
101 - Distance matrix (arb_dist): mark by distance to selected
102 - ARB core
103   * many bugfixes and improvements to reliability
104   * faster sorting (general speedup)
105   * improved sequence compression (avoid worse trees, better ratio)
106   * improved handling of temporary files (permission/removal)
107   * prints backtraces in userland
108   * regular expression are POSIX standard now
109 - macro record/playback
110   * fixed several bugs
111   * you need to re-record your old macros!
112 - GUI:
113   * disabled auto-focus, you need to click now
114   * auto-raise windows on access
115 - Minor things:
116   * Ubuntu: packet installation for ARB
117   * Fixed novice/expert mode
118   * Mark deep/degenerated branches
119   * Increased NDS entries
120 - up-to-date Mac port (thx to Matt Cottrell)
121
122Major changes in ARB 07.12.07org:
123
124 - rewrote secondary structure editor
125 - Sequence quality check
126 - Nameserver may use one field additional to 'acc' (useful to keep multiple species with same acc)
127 - tweaked base frequency filter generation
128 - Normal export (not using readseq) improved:
129   * supports filters and gap removal
130   * optimized for big amount of data
131   * reworked export filters
132 - Display translation with different ORFs in EDIT4
133 - ARB exports in FIG 3.2 format (optionally in colors). Thanks to Elmar Pruesse.
134 - added PHYML 2.4.5 (thanks to Stephane Guidon for the permission to distribute that great tool)
135 - more compact display in EDIT4
136 - capable to use iso10646 fonts
137 - supports various gcc versions (2.95.3 - 4.1.1)
138 - fixed a bug in DB optimization (occurred when fields had bigger protection than current)
139 - Bootstrap circles may be displayed as ellipses; upper size limit configurable; uses
140   different color for size-limited circles; fixed xfig-export-bug
141 - Allows Branchlength <-> Bootstrap value transfer (lossy!)
142 - fixed several scaling bugs in "folded tree"-mode
143 - improved import-filter error-messages
144 - NDS-display of groups (e.g. in tree) is now handled by ACI-command 'taxonomy'. This gives
145   several new possibilities:
146   * export taxonomy via 'Export NDS list'
147   * display taxonomy in Editor etc.
148   * display of cascaded taxonomies
149   * display taxonomy of tree_1 in tree_2
150   * allows to write taxonomy into database field of species
151   * compare taxonomies of two trees
152   * ...
153 - ACI:
154   * many new ACI commands
155   * unified handling of binary ACI-operators
156   * tracing of ACI actions for debugging purpose
157 - ARB Neighbour joining:
158   * bootstrap limit configurable
159   * bugfix: when aborting bootstrap calculation, sometimes no tree was generated
160 - EDIT4:
161   * added unalign right (block-op)
162   * added 'Save loaded properties'
163 - GENE MAP:
164   * multiple views possible at the same time
165   * origin now at "12 o'clock"
166   * implemented 'jump to gene'
167 - tweaked file selection
168 - Enhanced Search Depth for Probe Match --> max 20 MM
169 - CLUSTALW:
170   * separated menus for fast and slow alignment
171   * most parameters accessible from inside ARB now
172 - upgraded to PHYLIP 3.6 (adds PROML)
173 - external programs may be called parallel (e.g. several treeing programs)
174 - fixed bugs in protml and integration of protml
175 - rewrote ASCII database import
176 - arb_repair for databases of any size (script for database repair)
177 - fixed bug in data compression
178 - increased internal cache size (alignments up to 400.000bp possible w/o performance collapse)
179 - ARBparsimony: increase hardcoded species limit (50.000 -> 250.000)
180 - GDE menus cleanup
181 - translation/re-alignment tweaked
182 - unalign right (EDIT4)
183 - visualization of SAIs in Probe Match Results
184 - changed formatting of probe match results; increase # of allowed matches to 100.000;
185   warn if results are truncated
186 - PT server for genes
187 - Probe design performance optimized
188 - fixed NEXUS export format
189 - exports group names into Newick format
190 - import XML tree files
191 - help for external tools now properly shown inside ARB
192
193Major changes in Beta 2003_08_22:
194
195 - automatic formatting of alignments
196 - SECEDIT may use EDIT4 colors
197 - fixed bootstrapping (DNAPARS, PROTPARS, PROTML(experimental!))
198 - updated clustalw to version 1.83
199 - Restore window sizes for ALL windows (too small sizes are ignored)
200 - new algorithm to add partial sequences to an existing tree
201 - PROT-parsimony was completely redesigned and works now most similar to DNA/RNA-parsimony
202 - Top area of ARB_NTREE may be reduced to maximize display area
203 - All arb menus may be detached (click dashed line at top of menu)
204 - visualization of SAIs (as background color behind Sequences)
205 - ARB_EDIT4 may save/use alignment-specific and alignment-type-specific properties
206 - PT-server occupies more memory => does less passes; more diagnostic output
207 - small changes to status window (unhide behavior/time estimation)
208 - menus and menu-hotkeys reorganized
209 - colored buttons in color config windows
210 - alignment concatenation (e.g. several different genes)
211 - merging data of similar species (according selected database field)
212 - keyboard commands for ARB_NTREE (mark/unmark/invert, collapse/expand)
213 - expanded sellists
214 - save/load fixed for multi probes
215 - Binary SAIs are editable in ARB_EDIT4
216 - Information windows are detachable (allows to have multiple windows showing different items)
217 - Scanning for hidden/unknown database fields improved and separated;
218   possibility to remove unused fields.
219 - new tabbed format in 'Export NDS' and 'Export matrix' (useful for star-calc/excel/etc.)
220 - updated fastDNAml to 1.2.2
221 - added AxML (accelerated fastDNAml 1.2.2)
222 - Field transfer definitions for exporting gene-species
223 - File Selection: - recursive search available
224 - The ARB_NTREE macro recording/execution has been fixed
225 - Colorize species (see demo.arb)
226 - Fixed missing-character-bug in Xfig, Print and Edit4-Info-Display
227 - 'IslandHopper' -- a new integrated aligner (beta)
228 - Many improvements and bugfixes to secondary structure editor:
229   * highlighting of search (i.e for probes) like in EDIT4
230   * interactive constraint editing (stretch/compress)
231   * probe info
232   * editing secondary structure in XFIG now possible
233   * visualization of SAIs
234 - import reads Unix, DOS, and MAC linefeeds
235 - NTREE/SAI/Etc/GnuPlot: calls gnuplot directly; more plotting features; basic help
236 - tree and sequence export to XML ( DTDs are provided in ./lib/dtd )
237   (reloading of these XML files is planned for the future)
238 - fixed problems with phylip-tree import/export (bootstrap values,comments,...)
239 - search in all database fields possible ('[all fields]')
240 - up to 10 quicksaves are kept
241 - new ACI functions: upper, lower, caps, eval
242 - variables for import filter programming
243 - extract gene-species: creates acc; extraction to existing alignments
244 - sequence of selected gene is mirrored in ARB_EDIT4/local_signature
245   (=> selected gene can be highlighted in primary editor)
246 - PCR primer-design for single genes
247 - when selecting a gene, the corresponding gene-species is selected (if found)
248 - save configuration for several windows (e.g. Search&Query, WWW, NDS, ...)
249 - file selection box in import window
250 - mark item with double click works in all search&query windows
251 - User masks: create new; 'edit enable' and 'marked' toggles (like in info window)
252 - Fixed command line help for all Arb-modules
253 - Fixed problem parsing fonts (should fix display problems with default fonts)
254 - Mark mode now works in list-view as well (ARB_NTREE)
255 - Fixed appearance of 'tiny little boxes' (everywhere)
256 - Redesign of ARB help:
257     - a HTML version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help_html
258     - a text version is in $ARBHOME/lib/help (like before, but now generated)
259
260Major changes in Beta 2001_11_07:
261
262 - design probes to maximum length of 60 nucleotides
263 - fastAligner1.03 bug fixed (chooses best match now in 'auto search' mode)
264 - import default changed to foreign data format, ali name '16s'
265 - printing of multi-page-trees works again
266 - implemented user defineable masks to access database fields
267 - fixed bugs in pt-server (lockup, unknown species just after building pt-server)
268 - improved performance during pt-server-build
269 - several programs coming along with ARB where updated (PHYLIP,...)
270 - reads EMBL genom files
271 - support for experiments (genom databases only)
272
273Major changes in Beta 2001_07_24:
274
275 - basic support for genoms (Gene Map, reads Genebank files)
276 - ported to libc6
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