Dear users of wEMBOSS,
We have the pleasure to announce that the new version of wEMBOSS has
been released. It contains important bug and feature fixes :
- wEMBOSS allows you to type in your Email address, so that the program
is started "in the background" and you are warned by Email when it has
finished. The idea was that you could then start other programs or
close your Web browser. At a certain moment however a bug has appeared
that made that on many systems the program crashed when you tried that.
This bug has been fixed.
- wEMBOSS did not work under Mac OSX unless a small change was made in
the code (in the SETUID part). To relieve wEMBOSS site managers from
the burden of having to "hack" the code themselves, we now distribute
separate versions for Mac OSX and for other UNIX flavours.
- The "Search for programs" function retrieved a huge number of
irrelevant program names. This number has been drastically reduced by
avoiding to search in the "See also" section of the program manuals.
- The on-line manuals in HTML format are installed at different
locations, depending on EMBOSS version and whether it is a standard
EMBOSS or an EMBASSY program. wEMBOSS can now always find the manual,
wherever it is installed by default.
For a complete list of the changes you can look at the Changelog :
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=170030&release_id=615018
wEMBOSS 1.8.0 is released together with the new version 2.1.0 of
wrappers4EMBOSS. Besides a lot of fixes, refreshments and enhancements
it addresses the following important issues :
- Those who installed the EBI Web Services module will have noticed that
it stopped functioning. The reason is that the EBI upgraded its SOAP
server without backwards compatibility. The new version of the wrapper
contains upgraded versions of the clients.
- This some were asking for : a tool to use a remote MRS server as
sequence access mechanism under EMBOSS (using Web Services).
- The PHYLIP suite (available under EMBOSS as an EMBASSY package)
handles quite well the parsimony and distances methods, but is very
weak for Maximum Likelihood (only 1 model, slow on big datasets). To
address this deficiency we have added wrappers for PhyML and
ModelGenerator.
For a complete list of the changes you can look at the Changelog :
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=170030&release_id=615013
Regards,
Belgian EMBnet Node - wEMBOSS development team,
Guy Bottu
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