Revision as of 18:45, 17 February 2012

Any current release

• Installer - Versions of Norton Internet Security "Sonar" prior to NIS2011 may detect and delete a file generated during the installation process, "Install.exe". This will silently terminate the install. If this occurs, disable the Sonar feature during installation, or disable your antivirus protection during the installation.
• PowerPC-based Macintosh computers - Java 6 is not available for the PowerPC platform, regardless of the version of OS X. For this reason, recent versions of geWorkbench which require Java 6 will not run on PowerPC Macintosh computers.

geWorkbench 2.3.0 pre-release

• BLAST - (#2825) the maximum number of hits returned is 50, even if more were requested.

geWorkbench 2.2.2

(#2830) - a parsing problem in tblastx results due to changes in the HTML returned by NCBI is fixed in 2.3.0. The number from column "N" was appearing after the score in the e-value column. (#2729) - all versions prior to release 2.3.0 were limited in the number of arrays that could be downloaded in caArray, usually less than 100, due to a problem with memory management. With release 2.3.0, there are now no issues with downloading large numbers of arrays. Downloads of more than 500 arrays have been tested without problem in release 2.3.0.

geWorkbench 2.2.1

• Gene Ontology Analysis - if a workspace containing a microarray dataset and its annotation information is saved and then restored, the gene ontology analysis will not work properly and should not be used.
• Gene Ontology Viewer - In some cases when browsing the GO tree, when you select a particular term and view its associated genes, the list contains the "no gene name" entry (---). If this list is in turn copied to a marker set, the "---" will cause all matching markers, that is, those with no gene names, to be included in the new set.
  • Workaround - use the "Multiple Entrez ID filter" to remove all markers that have no gene name associated with them.
• Installation - Windows 7 and Vista users are advised to install to the "C:\geworkbench_2.2.1" directory. However, only users with administrator privileges can install to the c:\ root directory. Instead, users with regular user permissions should install to their own home directory, C:\Users\username\geworkbench_2.2.1, where username is your own login name.

Previous Releases

For issues with previous releases, please see the page Previous Release Issues page.

General

• Filtering a data set may after an analysis has already been run may invalidate objects that arose from the original, unfiltered dataset. Any filtering should be done before any analysis which creates child result nodes, e.g. a t-test, ANOVA etc.

• Promoter panel (issue #1988) - under very particular conditions, where a letter has a score and height of zero, and where an external display is being used on a Macintosh computer, a graphics error can be reported to the console. However, this error does not cause any problems.