SnapGene Version 1.0.0

SnapGene 1.0.0 was released on April 19, 2012.

Overview

Introducing SnapGene Viewer

The free SnapGene Viewer includes the key visualization tools of SnapGene, and allows you to make DNA maps and design primers. Now you can share annotated sequence files with colleagues around the world.

Alignments, Part I

A new command in the View menu aligns a sequence trace with a SnapGene sequence. Future enhancements will enable you to align multiple sequences at once.

New Functionality

• A new command in the View menu aligns a sequence trace with a SnapGene sequence. Future enhancements will enable you to align multiple sequences at once.
• The free SnapGene Viewer includes the key visualization tools of SnapGene, and allows you to make DNA maps and design primers. Now you can share annotated sequence files with colleagues around the world.
• SnapGene now supports lower case letters in sequence traces
• Redesigned display of sequence trace quality data
• Updated standard common features database (197 → 218 features)
• Added a "Getting Started" dialog when SnapGene is run for the first time.
• SnapGene now comes with a sample file that demonstrates some of the finer details of the software.

Enhancements

• Improved the list of companies available in the Sequence Author field in the Description Panel.
• Broader scale ranges for the sequence trace viewer
• Added Sequence Trace file icons and improved window title and drag proxy icons.
• Added warning message if an invalid registration code is pasted into the registration dialog.
• Streamlined the insert/replace dialog shown when editing sequence traces.
• Various color and textual, spacing and alignment enhancements
• Swapped vertical and horizontal scale controls and default to vertical scaling in the trace viewer since that is more likely to be used.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where when saving out an .ABI or other non SCF/ZTR trace file to a different location, the originating file would be corrupted.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in a large font being used to display enzyme notes in the Restriction Enzymes dialog.
• Fixed a bug with displaying ancestral sequence names within the resurrection tooltips in history view on Windows.
• Fixed a bug where after dragging out a selection in the trace viewer, typing did not instigate replacing the selected bases.
• Fixed a bug where the mouse position indicator would not always disappear when moving the mouse off the trace viewer.
• Fixed a bug with rendering the ruler when showing the binding sites that wrap around the numerical origin in the Make/Edit Primer dialogs.
• Fixed a bug with dragging out selections while scrolling in the trace viewer.
• Fixed a bug with title bar drag proxy icons on Mac OS X.
• Fixed a bug with "Copy" while using the trace viewer.
• Added SnapGene icons to the "New File from Selection" and "Export Selected Primers" commands from the top tool bar in SnapGene Viewer.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the application to crash when quitting.
• When the trace window does not have focus we no longer show a non-pointer cursor or show pliancy.
• Fixed Vivantis URL's in the Restriction Enzymes dialog
• When using Go To or Select Range while zoomed, you are not limited to going to or selected bases within the visible range.
• Fixed a bug with software update on Mac OS X where SnapGene might not always relaunch after installing an update.
• Now limiting the find controls in the trace viewer and alignment dialogs to not expand more then necessary.
• Fixed a bug that prevented SnapGene from automatically detecting and downloading software updates.