File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.4.0
Notes: Beta Release 0.4.0 (15 May, 2007) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One week after the last release, 0.4.0 comes out. Several improvements make this release different from the previous ones: * New consensus base calling model. Although updating model frequently happens in the development of mapass2, this one is different. It is the first model that can satisfy me. All previous models make me feel uncomfortable in a way or another. However, good theory does not always mean better performance. The new model only improve the accuracy by less than 1 percent. * Preliminary functions to process SOLiD data. This is the first the release that is able to process AB SOLiD data. The current strategy cannot fully make use of all the colour information that is unique to SOLiD data, but it is good enough to study the strength and weakness of SOLiD data. I may improve these functions when SOLiD becomes more stable. It is being improved. * Use of the GNU build systems. Mapass2 is better compiled with 64bit support. The GNU build systems make this easier. Apple universal binaries can be compiled, too. Although I still quite like to write Makefile by myself, I think to use a more sophisticated method is the right way to go. This is the first time I have tried this. * Considerable codes clean up and minor improvements in assembling related parts. Beginning with this release, I will probably not release mapass2 so frequently as what happened in the past three weeks. Although, I am not entirely satisfied with the accuracy of current performance, I am happy with the whole theory behind and the practical usefulness of mapass2. I am sure mapass2 is one of the best softwares to map and assemble short reads. (0.4.0: 15 May 2007, r114)
Changes: See ChangeLog in the source code package.
