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BioWord README

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Description
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BioWord is a powerful biological sequence editor operating in the most convenient of places: inside your usual word-processor (Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010). Easy to install and embedded into a Microsoft Office Ribbon, BioBar allows instant access to most sequence manipulation and editing needs, such as reverse-complementing, translating or FASTA formatting, and features a full suite of sequence search methods, pair-wise alignment and motif discovery.

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Contact
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E-mail lanzald1@umbc.edu or erill@umbc.edu with bugs/questions/comments.

Alternate download site:
http://compbio.umbc.edu/3655/

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Requirements
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(Windows) Microsoft Word 2007+

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Installation and Use
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For installation instructions and detailed explanations of functionality and usage, see the User's Manual PDF

This program is distributed under GNU General Public License; please cite accordingly.

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Extension Ideas
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-Extend to Mac Office
---->(pre-2010)-translate VBA to Applescript
---->(2010+)-create equivalent of Ribbon/UI

-Test portability to OpenOffice

(Feel free to contribute to this list by e-mailing lanzald1@umbc.edu or erill@umbc.edu)

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Version History
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BioWord uploaded 9.23.2012
-Fixed bug with character recognition

BioWord uploaded 6.13.2012
-Fixed bug with translation map

BioWord Uploaded 4.02.2012
-Fixed LaPlace pseudocount calculations
-Fixed bug with consensus logo printing (logo sizes are more consistent)

BioWord Uploaded 3.31.2012
-Added mouseover text to Userforms
-Added support for FASTA sequences in the format >header@sequence
-Fixed bug with Gibbs/Greedy IC calculations
-Fixed bug with Substring Search when using IUB

BioWord Uploaded 3.28.2012
-Expanded parameter information in Gibbs/Greedy results
-Expanded parameter information in alignments
-Added cancel button to lengthy operations (i.e. Search, Substrings, Window GC, etc)
-Fixed problem with masking in Gibbs/Greedy Sampling, allows user to mask positions to the left and right of the sequence

BioWord Uploaded 3.21.2012 (Unavailable)
-Name change
-Updated User manual
-Allows multiple motif results for Greedy/Gibbs sampling via masking
-Added Progress Bar with cancel option for Greedy/Gibbs and Dyad Motif (fixes locking up problem)
-Different color highlights to differentiate Gibbs/Greedy Sampling
-Includes IC content for motif in Gibbs/Greedy Sampling
-Allows table input (i.e. making a consensus logo from Greedy/Gibbs Sampling motif results)
-Results will be printed outside of a table if the cursor is inadvertently inside one
-added "reverse complement"/"reverse" to a resultant sequence header after each respective operation
-alignment output in Raw/GenBank mirrors BLAST/CLUSTALW output
-added PAM250, PAM120, BLOSUM50, and GONNET score matrices for protein sequences
-Includes frame for ORFs
-Optionally searches reverse complement sequence for ORFs (differential highlighting)
-More detailed screentips for Ribbon buttons
-Added Jaspar matrix format for PSFM output for the Consensus Logo
-Added an epsilon value to determine whether two bases are similarly frequent when generating a consensus logo
-Added option to have window %GC results plotted in a Microsoft graph

BioBar V3 Uploaded 1.1.2012
-Fixed some problems with options
-Added options for protein genomic frequencies
-Updated User Manual
-Fixed scaling with Consensus Logo

Biobar V3 Uploaded 11.27.2011
-Reworked the class structure to allow for future customization
(introduced ScoreMatrix class and removed Matcher module)
-PSFM prints with Consensus Logo


Biobar V2.01 Uploaded: 07.23.2011
-Added EventHandler so that there is no prompt to save BioBar.dotm when Word is closed

-Added customizable reference bar to Consensus Logo

-Perfected use of IUB codons in searches/motif discovery

-Implemented constants of sequence types and output locations/modes

-Cosmetic changes in printing tables from search results


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BioBar V2 Uploaded: 07.17.2011

-Substring/Gapped Search, Dyad Pattern/Motif Discovery, Gibbs/Greedy Sampling, and Consensus Logo can now be used with protein sequences

-Centralized protein scoring options in the Advanced Options pop-up and made it more intuitive to add new protein scoring matrices

-Added new Score Thresold to Substring/Gapped Search and Dyad Motif Discovery

-Decreased font size in codon-usage table prompt to avoid word-wrapping

-Fixed numerous bugs, including:
----> GenBank line overlap
----> Multiple/unnecessary error messages
----> NGram displaying fragments at the end of a sequence
----> MW calculation error
----> Highlight sub 
----> Display of sequence names in tables
----> Subscript Out of Bounds error (Gibbs/Greedy Sampling)
Source: README.txt, updated 2012-09-23