CLC DNA Workbench 5.7.1

Improvements:

• Improved performance of table filtering. Removed limit on the number of rows that can be filtered.
• Option to search for read names in contigs (and also sequence lists and BLAST results).
• Improved performance of conflict table view of contigs.
• Better layout of graphics export and printing of contigs results: reference and consensus sequence repeated to provide an orientation context on all pages.

Bug-fixes:

• Fixed error when opening tables generated by the Transfac plug-in and the primer search tool
• Fixed problem updating preview in Gateway cloning dialog
• Genbank export of annotations on the negative strand were not in the right order
• Fixed problems regarding editing and viewing of contigs and alignments
• Fixed memory and performance issues related to import of many sequences, eg. from ACE files.
• Various minor bug fixes

CLC DNA Workbench 5.7

New features:

• Improved memory management in general: lower memory footprint and shorter management overhead pauses.
• Improved memory handling of large tabular data sets.
• Improved consistency of data handling including faster listing of folder contents
• Performance when saving small files significantly improved
• Performance of ACE export improved, especially for long reference sequences or read mapping tables.
• Sequence annotations are packed to lower memory footprint and disk space usage, especially for SNP, DIP, and Conflict annotations.
• Improved performance of reading data files from shared drives.
• REBASE collection of enzymes updated to latest version
• BLAST: In the overview BLAST table, it is now possible to extract query sequences. Read more
• Process tagged sequences: it is now possible to input barcodes on a comma-separated list. Read more
• Folder structure (expanded/collapsed folders) is preserved through the life-time of a wizard (e.g. when selecting input data and reference for read mapping)
• Find in Side Panel: separators are allowed when performing position search (e.g. 1.000.000 or 1,000,000 or 1'000'000 or 1 000 000). Read more
• New preference group called "Data" to hold information about adapter sequences and Gateway cloning primer additions. Read more

Bug-fixes:

• Print of folder content now takes settings in the Side Panel into account
• Process tagged sequences of paired data: it was not possible to specify one read without sequence (necessary for Illumina barcodes using paired data)
• Better memory handling in conflict table
• Find in Side Panel: space are now allowed
• Genbank import: sequence name (LOCUS) was truncated to 18 characters

CLC DNA Workbench 5.6.1

Bug fixes

CLC DNA Workbench 5.6

New features

Bug-fixes:

• Fixed problem displaying the "Copying..." label when copying data and then updating the folder
• Fixed problem with naming of tabs. The fix means that on Windows and Linux unsaved data now gets a * rather than make the tab name bold and italics. (This has always been the behavior on Mac OS X).

CLC DNA Workbench 5.5

New features

• Gateway cloning. Simple and easy-to-use support for creating Gateway entry and expression clones.
• Search for matches among all your saved primers. The Find Binding Sites tool has been greatly improved to now allow you to search among all your primers. In addition, you also get a tabular output of the binding sites and possible fragments.
• In silico PCR: create PCR product based on primer pair and template sequence (including primer extensions). As part of the improved Find Binding Sites and Create Fragments tool, you can extract the PCR product from the list of fragments through a right-click menu.
• Check primer specificity. As part of the improved Find Binding Sites and Create Fragments tool, you can search with a primer pair in a list of potential target sequences and see an overview table of binding sites and mismatches as well as potential PCR fragments.

• Various bug fixes

CLC DNA Workbench 5.2.0

New features:

• Create new contig from selection
• Import list of sequences in csv format: each line in the file represents a sequence with name, optional description, and sequence. Typically useful for importing lists of oligos.
• Advanced view of elements in a folder including batch editing.
• Extract sequences improvements
• You can now drag results from NCBI searches into the view area to open directly (previously you could only drag into a folder to save)
• "Find" in text view now accepts Enter as command to find the next hit
• Importing VectorNTI archives previously resulted in a sequence list. Now it imports as single sequences.
• Export of annotations in GFF format (note that annotations with joined regions are not supported)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed tblastn numbering issue
• Fixed problem with graphics export of contigs
• Problem rendering scatter plots without lines
• DNA strider files could loose name upon import
• Rare misplacement of annotations when editing very large sequences
• Various bug-fixes

This update is recommended for all users.

CLC DNA Workbench 5.1

New features:

• "Reverse Contig" has been renamed to "Reverse Complement Contig." Functionality is un-changed.
• Better feedback on processes: there is a tool tip showing details and start time.
• Translation of DNA to protein in sequence views can now be set to follow existing CDS/ORF annotations.
• Exporting coverage graph to csv file now has an option to include or exclude gaps. Excluding gaps will make the file use the reference sequence coordinates
• Much improved memory performance and processing time of large data sets
• Improved performance when handling trace data. Trace now take up 50 % less disk space. This means that the data is opened and saved much faster and less memory is used.
• Output and error log files are now placed in the application data directory in the user home

Bug fixes:

• Fixed error when parsing files from Clone Manager (cm5-files)

CLC DNA Workbench 5.0.2

Updates

• Corrections to the ACE export
• Better performance of files with many annotations
• Fixed error and improved performance of Join Sequences tool
• Fixed error in Find Binding Sites on Sequence: no longer distinguish between lower and upper case
• Various bug fixes

CLC DNA Workbench 5.0.1

Updates

• Find in the Side Panel did not support spaces when searching for annotations
• In the cloning editor under special circumstances, an error occurred when replacing a selection with fragment
• Sequence statistics codon count were not correct when using sequences
• Fixed error when deleting a selected read in a contig
• Fixed error when exporting alignments in aln format

CLC DNA Workbench 5.0

Assembly

• Right-clicking a graph (e.g. coverage) on a contig lets you export the data points to a csv file.
• Multiplexing - Process Tagged Sequences now has an option to filter away groups with few sequences. This is an advantage if you have very ambiguous barcode definitions where sequencing errors would lead to a lot of "false" groups. These groups can now be filtered because of their small size. (The option is called "Minimum number of sequences" and is found in the third step of the wizard.)
• Importing assemblies with more than one contig creates multi contig tables (ace and cas file import)

Improved user experience of processes

• Non-modal feedback from processes:
  • When there is a message (e.g. from a BLAST search: not hits found)
  • If you have chosen to save the results in the last step of the wizard, you will be notified when the process is done.
  • Processes running on the CLC Science Server will notify when they are done.
• Possibility to open results by clicking the button next to the process
• Possibility to find and select results in the Navigation Area by clicking the button next to the process
• You can see a log of your process by clicking the button next to the process (even if you did not choose to see the log in the last step of the wizard)

3D editor re-design

• The 3D editor now allows you to select individual structure subunits, residues, active sites, disulfide bridges and even atoms, and to customize their appearance

General improvements

• Limited mode: when using a license server - if there are no more licenses left, you can still access your data. The Workbench will then run in Limited mode where only a few tools are available (corresponds to the tools found in CLC Sequence Viewer). Click "Limited Mode" in the license dialog.
• Tables:
  • New advanced filter to use numerical data for filtering and to combined several filter criteria. Click the small button next to the normal filter to see the advanced filter.
  • Visual feedback when sorting and filtering tables
  • Improved automatic detection of column width
• Performance of graphs and plots improved
• Local BLAST is upgraded to use NCBI BLAST version 2.2.19
• More elaborate error reports including error logs
• You can specify which folder the Workbench should use for temporary files
• Extract sequences from a sequence list, contig or alignment by right-clicking the white empty space. You will then be able to extract the sequences into a list or as separate sequences.
• The "Find" option in the Side Panel of sequence views automatically detects if you have entered a position instead of a sequence.

Plug-ins

• Extract Annotations plug-in has been improved:
  • Possibility to specify the naming of the sequences (based on annotation name, type etc)
  • Performance improvements to make it possible to extract annotations of large genomes.
• MLST plug-in: various bug fixes

Bug fixes

• Locale settings were not automatically set right on the first start-up. The locale settings determine whether . or , should be used for before decimals. For new installations of the Workbench, it will now be set to the locale of the computer's operating system. For existing installations, you will have to change this in the Edit->Preferences dialog.
• Fixed problem when BLASTing with an empty sequence
• Various performance improvements and bug fixes

CLC DNA Workbench 4.1.2

The following has been updated:

• The Side Panel's Find only high-lighted the first hit. This is now fixed.
• Extract sequences: fixed an error when extracting paired-ends sequences from contigs and sequence lists
• Local BLAST: solved problem applying command-line parameters, now a checkbox determines whether command-line options should take effect
• BLAST: it was possible to use a BLAST result as input and database
• Trace data: fixed an error when deleting parts of an unsaved sequence with traces
• Better performance when zooming a dot plot
• Better performance when using the Side Panel's Find in large contigs and sequence lists
• When right-clicking a CDS annotation and translating into protein, gaps were erroneously introduced into the protein sequence
• There was an error related to selecting sequences in the Cloning editor
• Multi-select (using Ctrl / Command key) did not work for sequence lists
• Various bug fixes

CLC DNA Workbench 4.1.1

The following has been updated:

• Fixed problems when scrolling very large sequences
• Fixed problem when importing very large GenBank files
• Improved possibilities for navigating contigs

CLC DNA Workbench 4.1

New features

• Improved performance when handling large data sets

• Contigs can be exported in ACE format
• Export of graph data points in csv format

• Possibility to open consensus sequence with gaps. Right-click the label of the consensus sequence in the contig view and select: Open Copy of Sequence Including Gaps. The gaps will be represented by Ns in the new sequence.
• Dynamic consensus graph removed from contig view. Since contigs now have a "real" consensus sequence which is also updated to reflect changes in the reads, the dynamic consensus sequence which is switched on in the Side Panel has been removed.
• Annotations can be transferred from reference to consensus sequence in bulk. Right-click one of the annotations and choose "Copy to Consensus Sequence" or "Copy Annotations of Type xx to Consensus Sequence".

• New plug-in! GFF/GTF support: You can now annotate a sequence using a GFF/GTF file. The plug-in is available for all Workbenches (not CLC Sequence Viewer). Once installed, you find it in Toolbox->General Sequence Analysis-> Annotate from GFF/GTF File. Read more...
• Extract annotations plug-in updated: it now uses the name of the annotation as the name of the new sequence.

• Fixed bugs related to contig editing.
• Various bug-fixes.

CLC DNA Workbench 4.0.1

New features

• Scrollbars can be adjusted manually

• Fixed problems when aligning sequences with lowercase characters
• Fixed import of trace files without quality scores
• Fixed problem when removing location
• A new sequence list can be created from a selection in the table view
• Better memory handling and managment of large contigs
• User definable scrollbar areas for contig views
• A few other minor bugs have been fixed.

CLC DNA Workbench 4.0

Performance improvements

• Support for data handling for larger sequence lists
• Import of larger sequence lists (fasta)
• View larger sequence lists
• Sequence views with annotations are rendered much faster

Licensing system

• More smooth system for handling licenses based on license order IDs
• Support for download of a license via web interface
• License server support for plug-ins
• User-friendly license wizard
• More reliable license system
• Easier to upgrade to newer versions

Tables

• Better correspondence between tables and sequence lists (e.g. selecting a row in the table high-lights the corresponding region on the relevant sequence)
• Number of selected rows in a table is now shown in the status bar
• Enzyme lists and restriction site tables now includes information about the length of the recognition sequence of the enzyme
• Create a new sequence list from selected sequences in the sequence list table (right-click the selected sequences)
• Support for copying from an enzyme list and pasting into a spreadsheet
• Fine-grained filtering of specific columns in a table

Views

• Alignments: possible to batch delete sequences
• Alignments: possible to toggle marked status of sequences
• Shift-clicking to extend selection also works on sequences with restriction sites
• The mouse cursor's position on the sequence is now shown in the status bar
• More fine-grained control when deleting annotations on multiple sequences
• Element info replaces the old "Sequence info" view and the "Properties" window. Undo-support and support for database-specific keywords.
• Improvement of scale layout of graphs

Assembly

• Assemble to Reference is now able to include both a consensus and a reference sequence in the same view
• There is a limit of max of 2000 sequence that can be assembled in one run
• Multiplexing:
  • Sort sequencing reads based on their name to facilitate batch runs
  • Sort sequences based on tag/barcode within the sequence
• Low coverage quick-find button in the Side Panel
• Advanced display of quality scores (colors/graph)
• Conflict table supports large contigs
• Coverage graph is shown per default
• Find Inconsistency renamed to Find Conflict
• Find Conflict treats gapped region as one conflict

Phylogenetics

• Advanced algorithm for Maximum Likelihood inference of phylogeny.
• ML estimation of model parameters on fixed phylogeny
• Substitution models included:
  • Jukes Cantor
  • Kimura 80
  • HKY
  • GTR

BLAST

• Local BLAST upgrade to 2.2.18
• NCBI BLAST uses the new server at NCBI
• The BLAST table includes information about the overlap

Miscellaneous

• Extract sequences works for large BLAST results, alignments, sequence lists and contigs
• Use an imported fasta file as motif list
• Better naming of primers when saving from primer table
• Motif search: the table now shows information about the length of a match
• Better correspondence between tables and sequence lists (e.g. selecting a row in the table high-lights the corresponding region on the relevant sequence)

CLC DNA Workbench 3.6.2

The following has been updated:

• A few bugs resolved caused by the MLST plug-in
• BLAST of contigs no longer changes the contig name
• Fixed issue with tooltip rendering of quality values on reversed sequencing reads
• A few other minor bugs have been fixed.

CLC DNA Workbench 3.6.1

The following has been updated:

• Various bug-fixes
• Fixed selection errors in cloning editor
• Name of saved primers were incorrect
• Fixed copy/paste errors in sequence list table
• Made it possible to Ctrl-doubleclick to extend selection between restriction sites
• Improved user interface for adding motifs to motif lists

CLC DNA Workbench 3.6

The following has been updated:

• Motif list search: It is now possible to do motif search using a list of motifs.
  • The list of motifs can be saved and exported
  • The list can contain different types of motifs: simple or regular expressions (Java or PROSITE)
• Multi request NCBI BLAST (up to 50 concurrent requests)
  • Makes it much faster to BLAST multiple sequences
  • Improved status messages when BLASTing multiple sequences
• Contigs (consensus sequence) fully supported by BLAST (both Local and NCBI)
• Extended BLAST table:
  • Shows if the hit is on the positive or negative strand
  • For tblastn, the reading frame for the hit is shown
  • The number of gaps, and gap percentage is shown
• BLAST overview table contains more information:
  • Shows hit with greatest percent identity
  • Shows hit with greatest percent positive
  • Shows longest hit
• Restriction sites available in Side Panel are computed up to 6 times faster
• Enzyme tables support "delete" via Tool bar and Delete key
• Enzymes already present in side panel are shown in [ ] brackets in "Show Enzymes Cutting Inside/outside Selection"
• It is now possible to reverse a sequence. Available both in the Toolbox under Nucleotide Analysis and in the right-click menu in the Cloning Editor.
• Better focus system - it is now easier to see what part of the screen that has focus. An error in the focus system has also been corrected.
• Various bug fixes.

CLC DNA Workbench 3.5.1

The following has been updated:

• Organism name is now available in sequence list tables
• Fixed Mac problem when closing tabs
• Fixed minor issues and improved overall program stability
• Improved view layout of very long sequence labels
• Fixed stability issues related to the Recent Items plugin

CLC DNA Workbench 3.5

Framework

• Search
  • Full text search (quick search field)
    • Query guide system (Shift + F1 in search field)
    • Pressing Alt while clicking: locate data in Navigation Area
  • Full text search editor
    • Can be saved for quick search later on
  • Automatically updated search index of all data
• New floating license concept
  • Automatic license server detection
  • Advanced license borrowing enables off-line use of workbench
• New and improved plug-in and resource management
  • New user interface
  • Quick button in toolbar
  • Better progress measurement during download, installation etc.
  • Automatic update check
  • Integrated plug-in registration: MLST
• Automatic restart (after plug-in installation, exceeding of memory capacity and license changes)

Views

• Cut, copy, paste and delete actions work better in both sequence viewers and tables (no need to right-click any more)
• Position of annotations in alignments, contigs etc. now relative to both alignment and sequence
• Numeric scales now shown on graphs along sequence (hydroplots, coverage, conservation, sequence logo etc)
• Selecting a row in a table makes an interactive selection on the corresponding sequence (now implemented for all relevant tables)
• The Find functionality in the Side Panel has been improved to make it possible to search in sequences with ambiguity character e.g. Ns
• It is possible to open much larger sequence lists in the graphical view.

Assembly

• Significantly faster algorithm now including multi processor technology - more than 4 times faster
• New action to reassemble contig
• Interactive mouse-adjustment of trimmed and excluded regions of sequence reads
• Refined conflict annotations now includes both existing and resolved conflicts
• Possibility to trim for multiple user defined vector sequences
• New action to reverse contig
• New right-click action to add sequences to an existing contig
• Sorting of contig reads (like alignments)
  • By hand (mouse)
  • By name
  • By length
  • By start position
• Individual scaling of trace data: mouse-grab the trace graph and drag up or down
• Possible to insert gaps in consensus sequence (Delete)
• Import of ACE files (e.g. contigs from Phrap)
• IUPAC codes included in the Contig table
• Editing sequence reads dynamically updates conflict annotations on consensus sequence (state: conflict or resolved)
• New right-click option on a consensus sequence selection: Transfer Selection to All Reads
• Trimming is performed twice as fast

Restriction sites

• Side Panel re-design
  • Sorting of enzymes by alphabet, number of cuts or overhang type
  • Simpler management of enzymes
  • Improved tool tips on side panel enzymes showing recognition sequence and cleavage pattern
  • Quickjump to restriction sites
• Improved enzyme selection wizard
• Improved action to Show Enzymes Cutting Inside/Outside Selection
  • New layout
  • Easier to understand
  • Improved filtering of enzymes cutting inside or outside the selection
  • Preview of enzymes to be added to the side panel
• Tool tips on restriction sites now include:
  • Methylation inhibition
  • Possible star activity (non-specific recognition and cleavage)
• Enzyme list table:
  • Information about possible star activity (non-specific recognition and cleavage)
  • New button: Add/Remove Enzymes
  • New button: Create new enzyme list from selection

Cloning

• Greatly improved wizard for in-silico cloning
  • Detailed table view of all available insert sequences
  • Interactive overhang "editor": simple mouse interaction easily adjust sequence ends emulating exonuclease activity or Klenow fill
  • Graphically advanced compatibility aid and check of sequence ends
• Easily find enzymes with compatible ends
• Inserted fragments now include annotations with information about the parent sequence and the performed cloning steps
• Common cloning vectors now included in Example Data
• Naming of sequences in cloning editor now reflects the enzymes which have cut

BLAST

• Local "on-the-fly" BLAST (also Cube and Cell)
  • No need to build BLAST database aforehand
• Multi BLAST table - overview when blasting multiple input sequences(also Cube and Cell, NCBI BLAST, SNP BLAST)
• Possibility to use command line options in Local BLAST
• Hit length is shown in table view
• (Local) BLAST performance much improved for very large sequences

Miscellaneous

• Shuffle sequence includes more algorithms - now possible to shuffle while preserving di-nucleotide frequency
• Added codon frequency tables for: *Arthrobacter aurescens TC1 *Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
• Finding open reading frames: the table includes more information:
  • Strandedness
  • Nucleotides in the start codon
  • Creating phylogenetic trees is done 10 times faster that before
  • Creating pairwise comparison tables is done 10 times faster that before
• It is now possible to extract all sequences from a sequence list, an alignment or a contig (File->Extract Sequences)

Plug-ins

• Sequence reader - reads sequence aloud
• Recent items - show updated list of recently used data
• VNTI import - including import of VNTI archives

Example data

• Example data is included in the installation file - no need for download
• Large vector library included
• New RNA sequences

CLC DNA Workbench 3.0.3

The following has been updated:

• Better import of aln files
• Solved problem with annotation rendering when inserting long sequences
• Annotation labels are now appended when exporting into GenBank format
• BLAST binaries are updated to version 2.2.17 which fixes some issues on the Windows platform
• Improved stability of the cloning editor
• Fixed problems with unstable contig objects

CLC DNA Workbench 3.0.2

The following has been updated:

• Fixed error in contig editing
• A few help updates
• Better detection of memory on computers with more than 2 GB RAM
• Better license handling on Windows Vista
• Fixed error in alignment editing
• Improved program stability
• Improved ORF detection on negative strands of circular molecules
• Better file naming when importing raw sequence data

CLC DNA Workbench 3.0.1

The following has been updated:

• Fixed error in conversion of old sequence data with lowercase characters
• Old data can now be converted through the help menu
• Fixed error when trying to save an element to non-selected location
• A few help updates
• Better license handling on Windows Vista
• Fixed error in alignment editing

CLC DNA Workbench 3.0

The following has been updated:

• Highlights
  • Work directly on data on a shared network drive
  • Improvements of annotation editing through the new annotation table.
  • Copy and paste annotations from one sequence to another.
  • New fragment table when doing restriction sites analysis.
  • Secondary peak calling
  • Translation of sequences in a contig improved (reading frames are aligned with consensus sequence, mutations on the amino acid level are shown in red - silent mutations are shown in yellow)
  • Full support for Windows Vista
  • One-click switch between views (e.g. circular and linear sequences views)
  • New annotation table - easy overview and filtering of annotations
  • State-of-the-art layout of annotations
  • Better and more intuitive handling of files (you can now access the files directly on the file system)
  • It is now possible to "Save as"
  • Easily expand selections using the mouse
  • Improvements of restriction site analysis

• Data handling
  • It is possible to add new locations to the Navigation Area by clicking the "Add Location" icon in the small tool bar above the Navigation Area. This makes it possible to use any folder directly from within the Workbench. A folder on a shared network drive can also be used enabling sharing of data with other users.
  • If more than one user tries to edit the same file, the second user who tries to save changes will be notified that the file has been changed. This user is then encouraged to use the "Save As" instead.
• Restriction sites
  • New restriction map object created when doing restriction sites analysis.
    • Restriction maps can be viewed as either fragment tables or virtual gels.
    • Fragments in tables are displayed with graphical illustration of overhangs.
    • When more than one enzyme cut at the same position, fragments are colored red to indicate that the result might differ in an in vitro experiment.
• Sequence views
  • Possibility to specify own annotation types. The list of annotation types can now be expanded simply by typing the name of a new type.
  • The Edit/Add Annotation dialog has been improved to make it possible to enter more information about an annotation. Following the conventions of the GenBank format, you can now add a number of qualifier/key pairs.
  • You can add links to web sites on annotations. In the qualifier/key part of the annotation dialog, you can simply enter a URL (link) and it will be possible to click on the link in the annotation table and open a browser.
  • More intuitive to edit alignments. Deleting and inserting gaps is now done for the selected sequences only. Deleting part of the sequence now moves the position of the rest of the sequence (instead of introducing gaps)
  • For graphs along the sequence, you can now enter a custom window size. Previously it was restricted to a few options.
• BLAST
  • In sequence views, you can make a selection, right-click and "BLAST Selection" both against NCBI and a local database.
  • Selecting a row in the BLAST table make a corresponding selection in the graphical BLAST view
• Motif search
  • Regions with N's are not searched when doing motif searches.
  • Selecting a motif in a motif search table will make a corresponding selection in the sequence view.
• Primer design
  • It is now possible to set a value for "Maximum pair end annealing" score
  • In alignment-based primer design, it is now possible to specify a "No primers here" region like in the single-sequence primer design. It is available in the right-click menu on a selection.
• Assembly and sequencing data analysis
  • It is now possible to assemble to a reference sequence with only one read.
  • You can now right-click the name of a sequence in a contig and delete the sequence.
  • Improvements of the contig table: conflicts are now kept in the table after they are resolved. A new field has been added to indicate status as "Resolved".
  • Single-click editing of single bases is now also possible in normal sequence views (it was previously only possible in contigs).
  • Secondary peak calling. In the Toolbox under "Sequencing Data Analysis", you find "Call Secondary Peak". It looks at the peaks in the sequence and is able to detect a "peak within a peak". This is useful when looking for heterozygous mutations.
• General use
  • One-click switch between views (e.g. circular and linear sequences views). There is a new row of buttons at the bottom of each view which you can click to switch the view. Pressing Ctrl (Command on Mac) while clicking creates a split view of the two.
  • Pressing Ctrl (Command on Mac) while rolling the scroll wheel of the mouse can now be used to zoom in and out (only possible for mice with scroll wheels).
  • Many right-click menu items have now icons to make it easier to navigate the menus.
  • Simplifying the task of creating a new sequence. Rarely-used elements like "Keywords" and "Comments" have been removed from the dialog, and the two steps have been merged into one.
  • You can now use I (inosine) in nucleotide sequences.
  • Better choices for the resolution of exported graphics.
• Sequence views
  • Easily expand selections using the mouse. When you have made a selection, place the mouse cursor on the edge of the selection, and you can now adjust the selection. This is also possible for each part of a multiselection.
  • Quick-jump to annotations. In the Side Panel under "Annotation types", it is now possible to click a quick-jump button which lets you go directly to the annotation. This provides a very quick and easy way of browsing annotations.
  • The names of annotations are now repeated on each new line in a wrapped sequence view.
  • The user can now specify which symbol to use in an alignment consensus sequence in case of ambiguities.
  • In nucleotide sequence views, you can introduce a space for every three characters to visualize codons. In the Side Panel under "Sequence layout" there are now several options for "Spacing": Every 10 residues, every 3 residues in three reading frames.
  • It is possible to search in text views. In the Side Panel, there now is a "Find" group where you can enter a text to search for.
  • You can now hide labels in sequence views. This is particularly convenient with long sequence names taking up a lot of space.
• Import and export
  • Pasting simple sequence text (like ATCGTACGTA) in the Navigation Area automatically creates a new sequence.
  • Import and export of view settings (the settings saved in the Side Panel). In the Preferences dialog (available from the Edit menu), in the "View preferences" you can now export and import the View settings.
  • All tables can be exported in a CSV format (semicolon-separated). When exporting sequences in this format, the annotations are exported.
• Restriction site analysis
  • "Restriction Sites Analysis" has been renamed to "Create Restriction Map" and the dialogs are more intuitive to use.
  • It is now possible to filter the list of enzymes to easily pick a specific enzyme.
  • It is easier to set the number of cut sites for the restriction enzymes to be displayed
  • When you open an enzyme list, you can select a number of enzymes, right-click and "Create New Enzyme List from Selection". This makes it easy to create subsets of enzyme lists. Combined with the table's filter, this makes it easy to extract e.g. restriction enzymes from a specific vendor.
• Data handling
  • Copy an element in the Navigation Area by dragging while pressing the Ctrl button (Command button on Mac)
  • Filter elements in the Navigation Area (to show e.g. only nucleotide sequences). The filter is available from the small tool bar above the Navigation Area.
  • When selecting elements for analysis, only the relevant elements are shown (e.g. only nucleotide sequences are visible when selecting sequences for Restriction Site Analysis).
  • When selecting elements for analyzes (in the select elements dialog), you can right-click a folder and add all the elements in that folder.
  • Possible to sort elements alphabetically
  • One-click renaming of elements. Simply click an element which is already selected, and you can type a new name directly.
  • Recycle bin is now visible and you can easily restore deleted elements simply by dragging to the desired folder.
  • In the File menu, there is a "Save As" menu item. It saves the opened element under a new name.
  • Easily collapse all folders in the Navigation Area by clicking the "Collapse All" icon in the small tool bar above the Navigation Area.
• Plug-ins and licenses
  • Plug-ins are now installed for all users of a computer.
  • Licenses also apply to all users of the computer.

CLC Gene Workbench 2.2.4

The following has been updated:

• Import of VectorNTI database significantly improved
• Fixed a problem with SNP BLAST caused by a change at the NCBI server.
• Fixed error that occurred when trimming away user defined vector sequence.
• Fixed minor problem in displaying trace files of extremely poor quality.

CLC Gene Workbench 2.2.3

The following has been updated:

• Better support for Windows Vista
• Improved import of Swiss-Prot files
• User can now select DNA or Protein sequence for Fasta import
• Fixed assembly problem when deleting reversed read
• Minor BLAST changes

CLC Gene Workbench 2.2.2

The following has been updated:

• Improved import of GCG files
• Improved import of BLAST alias files
• Workbench starts correctly on AMD64 linux distributions
• Fixed error when upgrading preference settings
• Fixed error in motif search if the search string is more than 127 characters
• Better handling when searching very large BLAST databases
• Fixed focus problem preventing interaction with Side panel

CLC Gene Workbench 2.2.1

The following has been updated:

• The list of available BLAST database has been updated
• Now it is possible to use multi-volume blast databases
• Fixed error when opening a selection of reversed reads in the contig editor.
• Fixed error when deleting single stranded regions in the cloning editor.
• Fixed error in the bugsubmission dialog when it was invoked by a workbench crash
• Fixed error in the preference panel when using empty BLAST url

CLC Gene Workbench 2.2

The following has been updated:

• Possible to install and use plug-ins
• Possible to develop your own plug-ins using our Software Developer Kit
• Improved editing of trace data
• BLAST databases can now be defined by the user
• Possible to specify the amplicon length in standard PCR
• Various bugfixes

CLC Gene Workbench 2.1

The following has been updated:

• Automatic annotation of raw sequences with SNPs, DIPs and other types of small scale variations. Annotation is based on user-friendly BLAST against the dbSNP database
• Automated design of primers and TaqMan probes
• Additional parameters have been included in melting temperature calculations (Primer design)
• Greatly enhanced web based BLAST. Longer sequences can be BLASTed, the graphical user interface is improved, and the subsequent handling of search results has been improved
• Enhanced local BLAST. The graphical user interface is improved, and the subsequent handling of search results has been improved significantly
• You can now save HMM models generated in the Pattern Discovery function (searching for unknown patterns). This reduces time for future pattern discovery searched significantly.
• Advanced and interactive view of four different kinds of pairwise sequence comparisons:
  • Gaps
  • Differences
  • Identity
  • Jukes Cantor distances

These improvements and changes have been made in CLC Free Workbench and CLC Gene Workbench:

• Greatly improved data import: Manual work is reduced significantly when importing large amounts of data; e.g, when shifting from old software to CLC-software
• Much better handling of very large sequences: Much less memory use makes the application smoother to work with
• Significantly better data handling makes actions like deletion of files and working with many files at a time much faster
• Inclusion of pre-defined style sheets for the preference panel
• Greatly improved export of graphics
• Greatly improved printing
• Greatly improved file handling (faster etc.)
• Greatly improved save-function. Among others the option of creating new folders from the save dialog
• Tables are now searchable
• All output of analyses can now be shown in table

CLC Gene Workbench 2.0.3

The following has been updated:

• Swiss-Prot parser can now download and handle files from the UniProt (9.0) release (updated file format)
• Swiss-Prot parser again handles multi-entry Swiss-Prot files
• Fixed error dialog on exit of the workbench if an external file is deleted while kept open in another program

CLC Gene Workbench 2.0.2

The following has been updated:

• Fixed rare cases where doubleclicking annotations in an alignment resulted in a wrong selection
• Fixed dialog when stopping BLAST runs in the process area
• References to BLAST databases are updated due to changes on the NCBI server
• Corrected check for 3' end heterogeneity when predicting specific reverse primers based on an alignment

CLC Gene Workbench 2.0.1

These improvements and changes have been implemented in CLC Gene Workbench

• BLAST: Expectation values with decimals now works for all locales
• Nexus parser fully functional
• Tracefile import updated: Gaps are replaced with wildcards
• Bootstrap values visible bug fixed
• Alignment gap-cost overflow management
• Cut/delete in navigator improved
• Even more user-friendly import-dialog
• Atom-count in sequence statistics bug fixed
• Bug fixed when downloading BLAST hit from graphical BLAST output viewer
• Attempting to drag more than 100 sequences no longer opens viewers
• Improved import of nucleotides from Vector NTI
• Import of oligos from Vector NTI

CLC Gene Workbench 2.0

These improvements and changes have been implemented in CLC Gene Workbench

• All icons have been updated in order to support a more modern and platform-independent look
  

Primer design

• Advance analysis of primer properties
• Alignment based primer design
• Alignment based TaqMan probe design

Assembly of sequencing data

• Option of aligning DNA sequencing data to an existing contig. This is especially useful when sequencing multiple exons from the same gene
• Tabular view of an assembled contig, including variance information. This provides an easy overview of conflicts in the data
• Improved “Assemble to reference sequence” functionality
• Option of finding inconsistencies
• Trimming annotation information is now included

Molecular Cloning and cutting

• The program now includes a fully integrated 1D DNA Gel Simulator
• The molecular cloning functionality has been improved

Database searches and pattern discovery

• BLAST output can now be viewed in a table format, giving an easy overview of the data
• BLAST can now be performed on local databases
• You can now build local BLAST databases
• Motif searches can now be performed by using regular expressions
• Motif searches can now be performed by using ProSite patterns
• An action can be started by dragging a sequence to an action in the toolbox

Other features

• Two or more sequences can now be joined into one
• Two or more alignments can now be joined into one
• The history log has been improved, giving an even better overview of past work tasks performed on a given element (an alignment, a sequence etc.)
• In order to give a better overview of sequences, they are now wrapped to fit the screen as default when they are opened.
• A large number of tool tips have been added
• All analyses have now an initial pre-defined setting of parameters. These parameters can be re-applied by the user’s choice
• Position specific information (e.g. the conservation score on an alignment) on sequences and graphs is now available by pointing to or selecting a position.
• DNA Strider data and PIR data can now also be exported (earlier only import was available)
• Import/export of NEXUS data
• Import of sequences in Staden format

CLC Gene Workbench 1.0.2

In CLC Gene Workbench, this has been changed

• View of trace data: If ”View of protein-translation” is chosen, the amino acids are now located between the sequence and the trace data graphs. This gives a better overview of the translations.

These improvements and changes have been made to CLC Free Workbench and all other Workbenches

• The phylogenetic tree function has been improved: The number of replicates (the bootstrap value) is no longer fixed at 100. Any value can now be chosen.
• It is now possible to cancel the process when exporting views to graphics file formats such as .jpg, .pdf, and .svg etc.
• It is now possible to cancel “license upgrade” from within the program (Help menu)
• When sequences are opened, they are now zoomed to nucleotide level per default. The prior default setting was “fit to width”.

These errors and problems have been fixed in CLC Free Workbench and all other Workbenches

• Restriction site analysis: In some situations, updating from an older version of CLC Free Workbench to CLC Gene Workbench, CLC Combined Workbench, or CLC Free Workbench 2.5 or 2.5.1, resulted in the program freezing when selecting restriction enzymes. This problem has been fixed.
• Export of GenBank search parameters did not always work perfectly. This is now fixed.
• Running different types of CLC Workbenches right after each other could result in errors in some situations. This is now fixed.
• The user is now told if no hits were found in a database search - e.g. a GenBank search.
• Help-description in the programs: Users having an older version of JavaHelp installed than JavaHelp 2.0 did sometimes experience missing or in-optimal help-texts. This is now fixed.
• In a few situations, import of ABI files was not done correctly. This is now fixed.
• In some situations, resizing of the application changed the toolbar layout. This is now fixed.
• Naming a workspace with the same name as an existing workspace can now be done without problems.