FPC V9 (28 Feb 08)

Draft sequence capability has been added! Draft sequence may now be loaded, aligned to the FPC contigs, and visualized in a new sequence track on the contig display. Numerous analysis functions are provided to assist in cross-checking sequence against map. See the sequence track demo for complete details.

Display code has been upgraded to GTK2. GTK2 is now required to run or to compile FPC.

A function has been added to the clone search menu to detect possible well-to-well contaminated clones.

FPC V8.9 (31 Aug 07)

The BSS has been re-organized to greatly simplify it!! There is an updated bssdemo and mtpdemo.

The Main Analysis window and functions have been rearranged and slightly altered.

FPC V8.5.3 (08 Nov 06)

• Removing all remarks from a clone did not work.
• The MTP now uses the biggest clone for contigs where only one clone is selected. Also, some memory bugs were fixed that caused the program to crash.

FPC V8.5.2 (18 Aug 06)

• MTP - at least one clone selected for each contig, specify how far from the end the end clones should be, candidate MTP clones that obey user supplied parameters may be in MTP even if a good spanner and flanker are not found, new function to select next clone for sequencing from sequenced clone and BESs.
• Bug fixes in BSS and Replace Framework.

FPC V8.5.1 (15 May 06)

FPC V8.5 (14 April 06)

• The assembly algorithm has been improved for HICF.
• Many of the parameters have been removed from the MTP code, and there are many improvements to the output. See simulation results.
• Mandatory clones are included in the MTP, where a 'Mandatory' clone is one with a sequencing status other than 'None'.
• The BSS now allows the user to enter the size of the prefix and suffix for the BESs, so that matching them to the FPC clone is easier (the clone name must be a substring of the BES name).

FPC V8 (May 05)

• The BSS has been greatly improved. (a) It now keeps results in a BSS_result directory. (b) It can split the output by contig. (c) It is much much faster on big searches (e.g. we were BSSing the maize AZMs against the BESs, and after a weekend it was only 20% done. Now it finishes in somewhere around 8 hours). (d) The user interface is easier.
• Multiprocessor computations for End->Ends and calculating the N tries of the assembly algorithm. Also, the multiprocessing and serial is performed with the same executable. The distributed processing is not supported in this release.
• The DQer did not work quite right as it would not reanalyze CBmaps that had moved to new contigs. It works right now and gives good trace messages.
• When the Ends->Ends does a merge, it no longer re-runs the assembly algorithm, as that would often cause false positives just due to the lower cutoff. It also uses a much more intelligent algorithm for determining what contigs to merge.
• Bugs have been removed from the MTP and other code.
• All tutorials and FPChelp have been updated.

FPC V7.2 (2 June 04)

• Many new features such as automatic merge contigs.
• FPC can be run on a shared memory machine.
• The BSS window has been rewritten to be easier to use.
• A new Clone Edit window, where the functions work right and fast.
• More work on assigning Contigs to Chromosomes, and reordering the contigs. This includes adding the ability to manual edit the chromosome assignment and positon.

FPC V7.0

See the V7 format changes for changes to the FPC format. The following gives an overview of V7.0 release.

1. A new contig display that shows all data correctly positioned, no information runs off the display. The user can create/destroy tracks for markers, clones, remarks or anchors. Any of the objects within tracks can be coloured based on substring or type. The track configuration can be saved for the current or all contigs. A Print will output a publishable contig.
2. There is a new input format for frameworks which allows the specification of chromosome or linkage group for each contig. The Ctg->Chr window has been extended to allow the user to select options on the mapping of contigs to chromosomes.
3. The MTP software has been integrated into FPC and extended. A MTP can be selected based on fingerprints alone, BSS hits alone, or fingerprints and BSS hits. BSS hits come from sequence such as whole genome shotgun hits to bac end sequences.
4. In order to be HICF compatiable, band sizes can now go up to 65k, the cutoff can be below 1e-45, and a bug was fixed in the assembly routine that only occurs with the HICF data (if you saw a XX remark, that was a bug).