News / What's New - 1998
21st December 1998
The fourth and final beta release of pregap4 is now
available. See the Pregap4 change log for a
summary of the updates.
25th November 1998
The latest FakII, version 4.2, has now been updated to support Experiment
Files. It is much faster than the earlier version and has a more sensitive
overlap detection algorith. See the Related
programs page for more details.
10th November 1998
Added a link to the Pregap4 and Gap4 course being held at the
George Mason Univeristy (Virginia) on 14/15 December.
13th October 1998
Improved documentation on the mutation
detection software.
13th August 1998
The third beta release of pregap4 is now
available. See the Pregap4 change log for a
summary of the updates.
5th August 1998
Updated the application forms.
They have been updated to reflect our change to the CDrom distribution format
and the consequential fact that this allows us to distribute the package all
operating systems on the same CD. The new licence allows for use of all
operating systems with no additional charge.
28th July 1998
Added a search mechanism (using Swish-E) to search
for keywords over the entire site. At present this may not work correctly in
the mirror sites.
24th July 1998
Major overhaul of web pages. Please report any problems to
James Bonfield.
23rd July 1998
The second beta release of pregap4 is now
available.
20th July 1998
Our latest paper on detection of point mutations
is now publically available online as a PDF file, and to those with N.A.R.
subscriptions as an HTML document.
9th July 1998
Added a pregap4 page describing how to
obtain the beta test version of Pregap4.
15th May 1998
New package release - Version 1998.0. Many updates to
Gap4, Nip4 and Sip4. Please see the
Release Notes for full details of the changes.
Many updates to Gap4 including a Phrap interface, improved use of confidence
values for consensus generation and for the minimal necessary edits, improved
find internal joins, and a longer allowable reading names (now 32 characters).
Sip4 has benefited from speed ups and a interface improvements (to make it
more similar to Nip4 in controls). Sip4 can now also be linked with Gap4 or
Nip4 to allow joint positioning of cursors between programs.
Nip4 now has a few more functions: find start codons, find open reading
frames, change the genetic code and count the dinucleotide frequencies.
Please see the Release Notes for full details of
the changes.
A few administrative changes have also occurred in this release. Firstly
this distribution is the first to be made available on CD-ROM. With this
increase storage capacity we now distribute the binaries for all the supported
operating systems on the same CD, although not all need to be installed.
We have also dropped support for SunOS 4.x with this release. It is
recommended for SunOS 4 users to upgrade to SunOS 5 (aka Solaris 2.x).
Finally note that this release does not contain source code, although it does
contain sufficient header files and libraries for compilation of package
extensions. For people wishing to obtain the full source code please email
staden-package@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
6th April 1998
Added a Phrap and Gap4 page for information on
how to integrate the two programs.
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