Release Notes

Find out exactly what has changed since the first release of Melanie.

February 8, 2008 (release 7.0.0)

Some of the new features in Melanie 7.0 include:

Simplified import and visualization of images
Reorganized menu structure with icons
Custom and context-related toolbars
One-click to choose desired layout of sheets and panes
Option to surround spot selections by boxes, for easier identification
Single tool to select/edit spots and annotations
Dedicated landmark tool
Measure tool to compute pixel, pI, MW, or real world (centimeter or inch) distances between spots
Reviewed contrast adjustment feature
New 3D View
Customized report templates
Adaptive display of histograms

For more information, please see the Product Brochure.

Changes

The match data of a project is now saved with the project file (in a "Matches" folder at the same level as the .prj file) for easier file sharing.
The Melanie6.xml file is only written upon installation. This means that normal users no longer require write permission on this file.
The software licensing system now supports Windows Vista.

Fixed bugs

In LAU calibration (Fuji), a computational error could lead to completely white images.

Following is a list of the main changes that have been implemented in Melanie 6.0 since the release of version 6.0.0 in July 2005:

Changes

Graphical reports can now be docked alongside textual reports.
When importing annotations, new annotations are only created when a label already exists.

Fixed bugs

Import of pairs from Melanie 2 (in certain cases).
Import Annotation from .txt files didn't work properly when certain labels were empty.
For the option "File > Export > Gel Data to XML", pairs were not exported in particular cases in Class worksheets or when the pairs were not saved on disk.
When a gel was renamed, the file extension was removed (Ex: Ecoli.mel -> Ecoli).
When gels were stacked, the Cursor Information window was displayed, and the Next or Previous keyboard keys were pressed, the information in the Cursor Information window was not refreshed.
Re-dimensioning of a column in a report causes the sorting of the adjacent column.
Non-DIGE spot detection didn't give the same results (in terms of spot outlines) as in Melanie 5.0. The number and shape of spot outlines should now be identical as in version 5.0, but the quantification results will be slightly different.

The most important new features in Melanie 6.0 (compared to version 5.0) are: