Changelog¶

This is a record of changes made between each Mutalyzer release.

Version 2.0.29¶

Released on December 4th 2018.

Improve user feedback for incorrect specific locus (#459).
Improve some position converter warning (#458).
Update requirements (#457).
Make API more consistent between UDs and NCs (#456).
Fix internal server error on IVS variant (#452).

Version 2.0.28¶

Released on June 11th 2018.

Support for LRG XML schema version 1.9 (#449).

Version 2.0.27¶

Released on May 25th 2018.

Accept variant descriptions with NC files as references (#445).
Removed support for pending LRG reference files (#444).
Add link to wiki page with differences between Mutalyzer and HGVS (#443).
Fix for batch processor crash due to NCBI server timeout (#442).
Update genbank retriever parameters according to NCBI recommendations (#439).
Update getGeneLocation` to use standard strategy to select mapping (#437).
Add link to website changelog (#434).

Version 2.0.26¶

Released on July 19th 2017.

Description-extractor dependency updated to version 2.35 (#429).
Fix for negative cCDSStop due to wrong transcript to protein link (#430).

Version 2.0.25¶

Released on May 17th 2017.

Fix for batch processor crash when trying to alter an “item” column of the “batch_queue_items” database table (#426).

Version 2.0.24¶

Released on April 12th 2017.

Fix for SNP converter crash when called with ‘rs0’ as parameter. SNP converter displays now more warning messages (#419).

Version 2.0.23¶

Released on November 9th 2016.

Fix for internal server error in the position converter triggered by non-variant description (#333).

Version 2.0.22¶

Released on September 20th 2016.

Biopython dependency updated to version 1.68 (#411).

Version 2.0.21¶

Released on June 24th 2016.

Fix typo in batch SNP converter, causing all batch jobs to stall (#409).

Version 2.0.20¶

Released on June 22th 2016.

Accept accession number as transcript selector (#405).
Add legend to the output of runMutalyzer service (#404).
Remove support for GI numbers (#396).

Version 2.0.19¶

Released on June 9th 2016.

Fix reference file loading by URL (#383).
Consider accession version in getGeneName webservice method (#390).

Version 2.0.18¶

Released on May 23rd 2016.

Fixed installation on CentOS 6 (#358).
Auto focus primary form input on page load (#363).
Check optional argument for dup (#369).
Fixes for chromosome slicing by gene symbol (#371).

Version 2.0.17¶

Released on March 24th 2016.

Position converter now checks for selection of gene/transcript (#346).
Update about page and link to new mailing list (#353).
Batch jobs processor is more robust on errors (#356).

Version 2.0.16¶

Released on February 25th 2016.

Fixed transcript naming in mapping webservices (#147). See below for details.
Support LRG transcripts in the position converter (#147).
Don’t report ext*? when variant RNA has stop codon (#146).

The following three webservice methods return a list of transcript identifiers for some query:

getTranscriptsRange
getTranscripts
getTranscriptsByGeneName

Previously they didn’t work correctly for LRG transcripts (a bogus version was included and no transcript was selected) and RefSeq transcripts on mtDNA (no transcript was selected).

Additionally, the getTranscriptsMapping webservice method didn’t return enough information to construct a complete transcript name. This is now reported in a new transcript field.

Finally, the getTranscriptsRange method now optionally includes version numbers with the boolean versions argument (default false).

Version 2.0.15¶

Released on January 6th 2016.

Speedup NCBI mapview file import (#124).
Parse genbank file without VERSION field (#126).
Fix issue where some transcripts would not show in the legend (#136).
Don’t discard complete gene from GenBank file when it has incomplete but also complete features annotated (#138)

Version 2.0.14¶

Released on November 9th 2015.

E-mail address is now optional in batch job website interface (#119).
Use Mailcheck in the batch jobs form (#107).
Optional email for batch jobs from webservices (#104).
Process batch jobs grouped by email address (#101).
Use interval binning scheme on transcript mappings (#100).
Back translator interface (#74).
Transcript-protein links are now cached in Redis (#94).
Added Ter as a valid amino acid in the HGVS grammar (#90).
Refactoring of unit tests (#88, #89).

Version 2.0.13¶

Released on October 1st 2015.

Fix query bug in update transcript-protein links (#85).

Version 2.0.12¶

Released on September 30th 2015.

Fix off-by-one in slicing chromosome by gene name (#79).
Document scheme used for all positions and ranges (#79).
Show diff for variant protein from non-reference start codon (#78).
Visualise protein change, also with alternative start (#72).
Translate alternative start to M, also in variant (#72).
Added Baker’s yeast (SacCer_Apr2011/sacCer3) assembly (#73).

Version 2.0.11¶

Released on August 6th 2015.

Fix bug in recognizing p.(=) (was reported as p.?) (#65).

Version 2.0.10¶

Released on July 21st 2015.

Don’t crash the position converter on transcript mappings containing no exons (#63).
Use the notation for an uncertain stop codon, e.g., p.(Gln730Profs*?) instead of p.(Gln730Profs*96) when a variant results in a frame shift or extension and we don’t see a new stop codon in the RNA (#57).
Added Dog (Broad CanFam3.1/canFam3) assembly for position converter (#56).

Version 2.0.9¶

Released on July 9th 2015.

Improvements in encoding detection of uploaded batch files (#52, #53).
Usability improvements in reading DNA for description extractor (#54).

Version 2.0.8¶

Released on May 27th 2015.

The HGVS variant description extractor package is available through the Description Extractor interface (#1).
GitHub project moved from LUMC/mutalyzer to mutalyzer/mutalyzer.

Version 2.0.7¶

Released on March 27th 2015.

Return fault code and description on RPC service errors (#31).
Use esummary 2.0 response format (#32).

Version 2.0.6¶

Released on February 10th 2015.

Added getGeneLocation webservice method. Given a gene symbol and optional genome build, it returns the location of the gene (#28).
Discard incomplete genes in genbank reference files (#26).

Version 2.0.5¶

Released on December 16th 2014.

New website layout by Landscape (GitLab!26).
Source code moved from GitLab to GitHub.
Automated unit tests on Travis CI (#16).
Developer documentation hosted on Read the Docs (#17).

Version 2.0.4¶

Released on November 19th 2014.

Many string encoding related fixes. Summarizing, Mutalyzer should now be completely aware of input and output string encodings, in all interfaces. Internally, all strings are unicode strings. This comes with minor changes in the webservice definitions, which most clients will probably not notice (GitLab!25).
Don’t crash on mail errors in the batch scheduler (GitLab#30).
Fix importing transcript mappings from UCSC database (GitLab#9).
Rename GRCh36 to NCBI36 (GitLab#8).
Updated all Python dependencies to their latest versions.
Mutalyzer is now Open Source! Source code is available under the AGPL and documentation under the CC-by-sa license.

Version 2.0.3¶

Released on September 20th 2014.

Fix several error cases in LOVD2 view on the name checker.

Version 2.0.2¶

Released on October 9th 2014.

Fix incorrect GRCm38 chromosome accession number versions.
Fix crash in position converter batch jobs.
Upgrade the webservice library we use (Spyne, from 2.10.10 to 2.11.0). This potentially affects behaviour of both our SOAP and HTTP/RPC+JSON webservices, although our tests did not show any problems.

Version 2.0.1¶

Released on September 27th 2014.

Fix POST requests to the HTTP/RPC+JSON webservice. This was a regression from version 2.0.beta-33. Thanks to Ken Doig for reporting the issue.

Version 2.0.0¶

Released on September 26th 2014.

This release does not bring many new features, but comes with significant changes to the technical infrastructure. GitLab!6 tracks most of this.

Some highlights especially users of the webservices should be aware of:

HTTP/RPC+JSON webservice has changed response format (wrapper object removed). See below for an example.
No more plain HTTP access, only redirects to HTTPS.
Many website entrypoints have changed URLs and form parameter names (the old ones have HTTP redirects).
Removed old redirects from paths starting with /2.0/.
In maintenance mode, all requests get a Service Temporarily Unavailable response with status code 503.

Other changes:

Upload a genbank file using the SOAP webservice (uploadGenBankLocalFile).
Do not cleanup the cache during request handling (GitLab#18).
Add GRCh38 (hg38) assembly (GitLab!20).
Move from nose to pytest for unit tests (GitLab!23).
Fix running Mutalyzer in a virtual environment and have an up-to-date requirements.txt for pip (GitLab!4).
Switch from TAL to Jinja2 (GitLab!3).
Refactor user interfaces (GitLab!5).
Move from configobj to Python module based config (GitLab!7).
Use SQLAlchemy as ORM (GitLab!8).
Use Redis for stat counters (GitLab!10).
Port website from web.py to Flask (GitLab!11).
Isolated unit tests using fixtures and an in-memory database (GitLab!12).
Display announcement on website (GitLab!14).
Database migrations with Alembic (GitLab!15).
Update documentation and use Sphinx (GitLab!16).
Move to semantic versioning, starting with version 2.0.0 (GitLab!22).
Add 404 not found page.
Don’t auto remove comma characters in syntax checker.
Add a dash (-) as an allowed character in the gene name.
Range, reverse complement range, and compound insertions/insertion-deletions.

The wrapper object has been removed from the HTTP/RPC+JSON webservice response format. As an example, consider an old response format for the checkSyntax method:

{
  "checkSyntaxResponse": {
    "checkSyntaxResult": {
      "valid": true,
      "messages": {
        "SoapMessage": []
      }
    }
  }
}

The new response format is:

{
  "valid": true,
  "messages": []
}

Version 2.0.beta-33¶

Released on August 19th 2014.

Link to Upcoming server update announcement.

Version 2.0.beta-32¶

Released on June 26th 2014.

Link to Visual interface for Variant Description Extractor announcement.

Version 2.0.beta-31¶

Released on March 27th 2014.

Due to incorrect interpretation, temporarily only support one CDS per transcript (ignore all others) in LRG.
Due to incorrect interpretation, temporarily ignore transcripts without a fixed id.

Version 2.0.beta-30¶

Released on February 18th 2014.

Handle NCBI Entrez response validation errors (fixes, among other things, LOVD Trac#29).
Loosen error severity when CDS cannot be translated.
Mutalyzer development migrated from Subversion to Git for version control.

Version 2.0.beta-29¶

Released on October 11th 2013.

Add Jonathan Vis attribution and COMMIT logo to about page.

Version 2.0.beta-28¶

Released on September 18th 2013.

Enable the HTTP/RPC+JSON web service to be used with POST requests.

Version 2.0.beta-27¶

Released on June 18th 2013.

Fix caching transcript-protein links from NCBI, reducing impact of NCBI communication problems.

Version 2.0.beta-26¶

Released on April 9th 2013.

Added mm10 (Mouse) transcript mappings to position converter.
LRG parser updated to LRG 1.7 schema (Trac#127).

Version 2.0.beta-25¶

Released on March 25th 2013.

Detect incorrect exon annotation in transcript references.
Move documentation to Trac.
Exon table is included in runMutalyzer webservice results.
Temporarily disable frameshift detection in experimental description extractor (Trac#124).
Allow selectors on transcript references in position converter.
Syntax checker now supports protein level variant descriptions.

Version 2.0.beta-24¶

Released on December 10th 2012.

Rename some warning codes (webservice API) (Trac#98).
Variants on mtDNA in position converter.

Version 2.0.beta-23¶

Released on November 8th 2012.

No user-visible changes.

Version 2.0.beta-22¶

Released on November 2nd 2012.

Submitting batch jobs via the web services (Trac#115).
Allow for leading whitespace in batch job input (Trac#107).
New descriptionExtract webservice function.
Name checker now includes description extractor output as an experimental service.
Slice chromosome by gene name in reference file loader is now case insensitive (Trac#118).
Warn on missing positioning scheme (Trac#114).

Version 2.0.beta-21¶

Released on July 23rd 2012.

Support compound variants in position converter.
Support non-coding transcripts in position converter (Trac#102).
Move to new RPC library version, causing slight change in HTTP/RPC+JSON webservice output (more wrappers around output), but fixes Trac#104.
Fix position converter for delins with explicit deleted sequence.
Fix description update from Version 2.0.beta-20 to use- notation instead of counting.

Version 2.0.beta-20¶

Released on July 21st 2012.

Disabled the -u and +d convention in favour of the official HGVS recommendations.

Version 2.0.beta-19¶

Released on June 21st 2012.

Fix crash on inversions (Trac#99).

Version 2.0.beta-18¶

Released on June 7th 2012.

Moved from soaplib to rpclib for webservices (Trac#66).
Added HTTP/RPC+JSON webservice (Trac#18).
Fixed name checker errors in some adjacent variants (Trac#83).
Name checker form now uses GET requests to support easier linking to result pages.
You can now specify chromosomes by name in the reference file loader (Trac#92).
Made batch daemon not crash on MySQL restarts (Trac#91).
Position converter now detects incorrect order in position ranges (Trac#95).
Added NBIC logo to ‘about’ page.

Version 2.0.beta-17¶

Released on April 2nd 2012.

Fixed crossmapping bug for some transcripts.
Fixes for NCBI Entrez EFetch Version 2.0 release.
Better chromosomal variant descriptions.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Version 2.0.beta-16¶

Released on March 1st 2012.

Fixed position converter mapping info for some transcripts.
Fixed deletion with deleted sequence length as argument.

Version 2.0.beta-15¶

Released on February 20th 2012.

Added ‘Description Extractor’ (see the main menu).
Fixes for NCBI Entrez EFetch Version 2.0 release.
Added chromosomal positions to getTranscriptsAndInfo webservice.
Fixed chromosome slicing on reverse complement
Fixed describing NOP variants with =.
Added Reference sequence info in runMutalyzer SOAP function response.
Fixed mapping info for genes mapped to more than one chromosome.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Version 2.0.beta-14¶

Released on January 26th 2012.

Added a SOAP service getTranscriptsMapping.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Version 2.0.beta-13¶

Released on January 25th 2012.

Accept EX positioning scheme.
Fix handling of LRG reference sequences.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Version 2.0.beta-12¶

Released on November 25th 2011.

Accept plasmid reference sequences.
View variant position in UCSC Genome Browser (only for transcript references).
Retry querying dbSNP if it does not respond the first time.
Support reference GenBank files built from contigs.
Add optional argument to SOAP service numberConversion to map chromosomal locations to any gene.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Version 2.0.beta-11¶

Released on September 30st 2011.

Major code refactoring:
- Mutalyzer is now structured as a proper Python package.
- Reworked installation and upgrade procedure.
- Remote installation using Fabric.
- Batch scheduler is now a proper system daemon.
- Use mod_wsgi (with web.py) instead of the deprecated mod_python.
- Added a lot of internal documentation.
- Introduce unit tests.
- Handle deletions of entire exons.
- Added a SOAP service info.
- Handle unknown (fuzzy) intronic positions.
- Automatic synchronization of database and cache between Mutalyzer installations.
- Use NCBI instead of UCSC for transcript mapping info.
- Added a SOAP service getdbSNPDescriptions.
- Moved Trac and Subversion repository to new server.
- Implement HTTP HEAD method for /Reference/* locations.
Added a SOAP service ping.
Added an optional versions parameter to the SOAP service getTranscripts.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Version 2.0.beta-10¶

Released on July 21st 2011.

Greatly reduce runtime for large batch jobs.

Version 2.0.beta-9¶

Released on June 27th 2011.

Reworked the calculation of new splice site positions.
Optionally restrict SOAP service getTranscriptsAndInfo transcripts to a gene.
Add raw variants to SOAP service runMutalyzer results.
Provide webservice client examples.
Various smaller features and bugfixes.

Older versions¶

The first lines of code for Mutalyzer 2.0 were written July 28th 2009, and version 2.0.beta-8 was released on January 31st 2011. As far as Mutalyzer 1 is concerned, archaeology is not really our field of research.