Artemis Changelog

What's new in Artemis 18.2.0

Mar 14, 2022
  • Upgrade log4j to latest version 2.17.2 (Issue #326).
  • Upgrade Picard jar to latest version 2.26.11 and fix indexed file related bug introduced in PR #304.
  • Remove redundant Evosuite tests.
  • Fix Travis build.
  • Other minor updates.

New in Artemis 18.1.0 (Dec 4, 2019)

  • Performance improvements around GFF loading/saving
  • Reorganised test data and added more unit tests
  • Added fixes for exceptions generated when handling indexed GFF files
  • Enabled command line help flag on writedb_entry script
  • Added additional file suffixes, recognised by Artemis
  • Added low_complexity_region and tandem_repeat feature keys
  • Added fix to prevent validation aborting
  • Scripts now return an exit code of zero, when run with -h

New in Artemis 18.0.3 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • Fix for GitHub Issue #293 - Java version error for Mac OS X Mojave.
  • RT ticket 621414 - addition of source field to Gene Builder GO term panel
  • Various build and documentation updates.
  • Addition of Docker file.

New in Artemis 18.0.2 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • RT Ticket 648115 - display blast file hits correctly in Artemis to avoid having to do manual column re-ordering in the file.
  • RT Ticket 649125 - fix for broken plot window popup menu on Windows.

New in Artemis 18.0.1 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • Removal of references to old genedb Chado database.
  • Addition of command line scripts to Mac apps.

New in Artemis 18.0.0 (Nov 22, 2019)

  • Upgrade to Java 9+. Java 8 is no longer supported.
  • Introduction of Maven to replace ant and make
  • A number of bug fixes and new features

New in Artemis 13.2.0 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Added option to provide overview of the variation sites
  • Change BamView filter to enable filtering in and out based on reads flag
  • Add read count and RPKM calculations to BamView
  • Add option in BamView to clone the alignment panel
  • Create features option for VCF records
  • Unit tests added for writing VCF/BCF sequences
  • Add new Coverage view to BamView. It automatically switches to this view on zooming out
  • Add options to write out or view FASTA sequences from VCF/BVF variation data

New in Artemis 13.0 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Add support for reading in indexed BCF (Binary VCF) files.
  • Memory optimisation of codon caching, reducing the memory footprint.
  • It is now possible to add BAM, VCF and BCF files from the command line using the JVM bam option, e.g. art -Dbam=/pathToFile/file.bam and for multiple BAM's/VCF's this is comma separated art -Dbam='/pathToFile/file1.bam,/pathToFile/file2.bam', it can also read the BAM's from URL's.
  • Added option to display orientation of reads in BamView.
  • In Bamview, display reads that are split over introns so that the exon boundaries can be identified by colouring the line between the aligned blocks grey.
  • Add VCF panel to ACT.
  • Support added to read indexed fasta sequence files. An index file is created using SAMtools.
  • Add support for VCF v3.3 and v4.0.
  • Add option to show combined coverage plots for multiple BAMs.
  • Add show_forward_lines and show_reverse_lines as options for switching
  • frame lines on and off.
  • Add an option to delete qualifiers in the Find/Replace tool.
  • Artemis can read in a set of zipped search results (e.g. blastp/blastp.zip).
  • Add BamView panel to ACT.
  • Fix for writing EMBL files out from GFF entries.
  • An option has been added in BamView to colour reads by the colour used in the coverage plot - useful when looking at multiple BAM files.
  • Plot multiple coverage plots in BamView when multiple BAM files are loaded in.