Release v2.0 (2016/01/02)
CR-EST was transfered to APEX 5.0. Several outdated features were removed.
Release v1.5 (2004/11/26)
Following updates have been made since last version:
- change of design and layout completed
- improved database performance
- new feature: search result navigation
- new feature: search result download
- new feature: quick access to recent search results (modified menu appearance)
- new feature: structured and linked sequence details
- new feature: FASTA download from sequence details
Release v1.4 (2004/08/15)
Following updates have been made since last version:
- change of design and layout
- change of access procedure
- new feature: examples added to each form
- application improved: Gene Ontology mapping for CR-EST sequences
- link to sequence download section
Release v1.3 (2004/06/07)
Following updates have been made since last version:
- new application added: Blast of one nucleotide sequence against CR-EST ESTs (blastn, tblastx, tblastn)
- new application added: Gene Ontology mapping for CR-EST sequences
- new feature: database statistics (status) put into graphs
Release v1.2 (2004/01/29)
Following updates and fixes have been made since last version:
- new application added: clone delivery status (only for named user)
- new feature: sequence details now linked to a short blast result list
- new feature: consensus sequence details now linked to list of all consensus sequences which are member of the same cluster or contig
- new feature: sequence details now linked to a short pathway annotation list
- application fixed: ORF finder now works for all organsims
- external links to EMBL fixed
- application improved: sequence alignment illustration optimized
- new feature: organism database statistics put into graphs and interlinked
- new feature: clustering project statistics and project details put into graphs
- new feature: online help established
Release v1.1 (2003/09/15)
Following updates and fixes have been made since last version:
- completely new administration application menu with tools to manage and maintain CR-EST (only for administrator)
- new application added: open reading frames finder (ORF finder)
- NOTE: You have to install Java Web Start to use the ORF finder!
- new application added: user settings for named users
- new application added: clustering project overview and detailed statistics
- application improved: login and menu screen adjustment and modification
- application improved: cDNA libraries overview and details adjustment and modification
- application improved: detailed database statistics for each organism
- application improved: special queries adjustment and modification (only for named user)
- application improved: further linking of application details views
- new feature: navigation buttons in application form and result pages
- adjustment of all pages to a consistent CR-EST design
- new feature: total number of query result list and query time
- several corrections of text errors
- new feature: version information established
Release v1.0 (2003/07/21)
First public version of the IPK Crop EST Database application. The CR-EST application offers following services:
- login screen with selection of one crop organism
- dynamically generated menu depending on user login (different large application offer)
- sequence search for EST or consensus sequences with complex search forms and miscellaneous search criteria
- search in results of previously accomplished Blast analyses for EST or consensus sequences with a complex search form and miscellaneous search criteria
- display of seqence alignments and EST memberships in consensus sequences
- annotation of EST and consensus sequences to biochemical pathways based on the DBOra database integration platform
- display of detailed cDNA library information
- special queries for specialized information retrieval and frequent repeated use (only for named user)
- number statistic of current database state
- cross-linking of application details views and linking to public databases