Updates, Bugs and Previous Versions

This page contains the list of updates to each version of FESTA. It also contains the list of reported/known bugs in FESTA.
You can also download the previous versions of FESTA here.

Update Log

Date
Version Upgrade
Updates
12/24/2005
1.0 2.0
  • Additions:
    1. Provision to specify target SNPs to be tagged.
    2. Allowed to specify multiple target SNP ranges using a range file.
    3. Allowed for a user defined property for each SNP (using the map file). This property can be used to choose among solutions. By default, this option also outputs the two tagSNP sets obtained by maximizing and minimizing this property among all the tagSNP sets. The --nsols option has to be specified to obtain these sets.
    4. Added a --c5 option, which gives all 5 criteria solutions. This, in effect replaces the -c option of old. Now, the -c option only gives 3 criteria solutions.
    5. Added a default tagSNP set to the output files. This is one of the many tagSNP sets found by FESTA. Please note that this set does not possess any special property.
  • Modifications:
    1. Changed the way greedy-exhaustive algorithm works. Reversed the order of greedy and exhaustive searches. Now, an exhaustive search is performed first and a greedy alogrithm is applied to the residual graphs. The limit on the number of exhaustive searches is less than the computational limit that is use-specifiable. This limit is currently set to 10,000 solutions.
    2. Changed the -c option. It used to give 5 tag set solutions. It now gives only 3 solutions, which correspond to the first three solutions earlier.
    3. Changed the output naming scheme. The -o option now acts as a prefix for the output files. The various output files are preceded by this prefix string.
  • Deletions:
    1. Removed the -N option to count number of double coverage solutions.
    2. Removed the -D option for coverage on a dense map using seed from a sparse map.


Bug Log

Date Found
Version
Date Resolved
Description
11/7/2005 1.0 11/16/2005 The computational times shot through the roof when a large exclude list was given. The problem was with the way FESTA handled the exclude list along with solution select with inbuilt criteria. An empty precinct causes FESTA to stall and search for solutions!! Jason Laramie of Boston University School of Medicine pointed this out. We would like to thank him for letting us know.


Previous Versions

Platform
File
Size
Version: 1.0               Date: 27th June 2005
Linux (x86)

FESTA_linux.tar.gz

471 kb
SunOS

FESTA_sun5.9.tar.gz

436 kb
Macintosh OS X

FESTA_mac_OSX.tar.gz

650 kb
Unix

FESTA_unix.tar.gz

711 kb