The list below outline the priority features ordered and grouped by priorities.
Development Focus - High Priority Items: To be implemented after 2.4.0 release.
The following are high priority features that will be incorporated in future caArray releases:
- Fix collaborator group access to unimported files
- Integrate caArray with biospecimen systems (caTissue)
- Simplify the import of large data sets
- Support Grid API access to protected data
- Enable development and distribution of plug-in parsers
Development Focus - Intermediate Priority Items
The following are additional features that will be incorporated in future caArray releases. These features were voted by participants in the monthly caArray User meeting in June, 2009:
- Provide a writable API to allow programmatic loading of data into caArray as part of existing pipelines (this is implemented in caArray Importer, a {community contribution by Dr. Matt Eldridge|https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/Molecular/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=497]. (vote: 11)
- Enable easy upload of large data sets (>2GB). (vote: 5)
- Controlled vocabulary (Suggest alternative terms already available, Allow curator to merge duplicate terms). (vote: 5)
- Collaboration group ownership should not be tied to experiment ownership. (vote: 3)
- Allow user to reset the status of files stuck in the Importing state. (vote: 3)
- Allow adding a new organism through the UI. (vote: 1)
- Support upload of files in the tar.gz format. (vote: 0)
- Add ability to move Supplementary files back to the Manage Data tab. (vote: 0)
Major Features in Scheduled and Past Releases
The table below outlines the major features in scheduled and past release(s).
Version |
Development Focus |
Release Date |
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2.4.0 |
This release represents a feature release of the caArray 2 software: Focus is around data parser. The following data parsers will be included in caArray 2.4.0:
|
August 2010 |
2.3.1 |
This release represents a feature release of the caArray 2 software: Focus is around data export to GEO. Highlights of caArray 2.3.1 include:
|
February 2010 |
2.3.0 |
This release represents a feature release of the caArray 2 software: Focus is around new programmatic interface to caArray application. Highlights of caArray 2.3.0 include:
|
October 2009 |
2.2.1 |
This release represents a minor release of the caArray 2.x software: Focus is around access control and ownership of experiments. Highlights of caArray 2.2.1 include:
|
April/May 2009 |
2.2.0 |
80 features/issues were addressed
|
January 2009 |
2.1.1 |
Become part of the Life Science Distribution |
October 2008 |