Mauve Changelog

What's new in Mauve 2.4.0

Mar 28, 2015
  • New features:
  • Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.8+
  • Mauve Assembly Metrics (publication)
  • SNP output from the command line
  • Permutation matrix output
  • Updated visual styling of similarity plots
  • Mauve Contig Mover can now run headless (command-line) with OpenJDK and Oracle JDK 7 and 8
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Poor performance of annotation tooltips on mouseover
  • Errors reading GenBank annotation from RAST and Prokka (thanks Torsten Seemann & Matt DeMaere)
  • Alignment of genomes > 2Gbp
  • new OpenJDK fonts caused ugly GUI component layouts
  • Build incompatibilities with modern Boost libs
  • Contig N50 off-by-one error in Mauve Assembly Metrics
  • Boundary condition bugs in Mauve Assembly Metrics

New in Mauve 2.3.1 (Nov 12, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Compatibility with older versions of Mac OS X
  • Bugs fixed:
  • SNP output now handles mixed case sequence files and gap characters
  • Aligner memory usage has been streamlined, resulting in reduced memory requirements for alignments with many genomes
  • Fix for bug that prevented reordering GenBank-format draft genomes on the command-line
  • Fixed a crash when generating mums
  • Report an error when sequences containing gaps are used as input
  • Remove extra newlines in the ortholog alignment output
  • Fixed an OpenJDK rectangle drawing bug

New in Mauve 2.3.0 (Jun 18, 2009)

  • Major new features:
  • Reordering contigs of draft genomes, published as Rissman et al 2009
  • Export a list of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms present in an alignment (thanks to Meg Woolfit for the suggestion)
  • Export a file listing the genome arrangement as a signed permutation
  • Export a list of positionally orthologous CDS, tRNAs, or misc_RNAs (thanks to Elizabeth Skippington for the suggestion)
  • Export a file containing alignments of orthologous CDS, including alignments of unannotated regions predicted to be orthologous (thanks to Sam Sheppard for the idea)
  • Other new features::
  • On Linux it is now possible to launch Mauve from outside the Mauve directory (thx Dongying Wu)
  • Option to disable drawing the mouse cursor highlighting orthologous regions so that figures for manuscripts can be rendered (thanks to Andrew Kropinski for the idea)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • An alignment would complete successfully but the viewer would fail to load it because the alignment contained invalid data in the backbone file. This bug was very commonly encountered in 2.2.0.
  • An alignment with progressiveMauve would crash with an error like "cga doesn't fit" or another error message, when run on multicore computers. This was a race condition in progressiveMauve's parallelism.
  • Known issues:
  • Parallelism has been disabled for all supported platforms to avoid a race condition bug.

New in Mauve 2.2.0 (Jun 25, 2008)

  • New menu option to disable the red contig boundary lines
  • Progressive aligner sensitivity/accuracy improvements
  • progressiveMauve was not sensitive enough to small rearrangements, although it did have high predictive value
  • progressiveMauve was not properly extending LCBs in the 2.1.x releases
  • progressiveMauve did not work on 64-bit linux (indefinite waiting message)
  • Versions 2.1.x did not render vector graphics when printing to PDF or EPS
  • seed families are too memory intensive and are now disabled by default
  • segmentation fault (crash) on linux/mac due to a bug in c sort functions
  • update check causes a stall during GUI launch when the network is inaccessible
  • building from source was difficult

New in Mauve 2.1.1 (Jun 12, 2008)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The alignment programs mauveAligner and progressiveMauve did not work on Mac due to a missing shared library (libgomp.dylib)
  • progressiveMauve would occasionally crash during alignment scoring and greedy breakpoint elimination due to a math bug
  • The sequence navigator did not properly highlight feature search results when launched from the menu. It did work when launched from the toolbar binoculars button.