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Downloads and version history

Below is a list of major changes, with details in the Help files. Available for download (all are 32-bit applications for Microsoft Windows, but the recent versions apparently run well under Windows emulation software on Macintosh and Linux machines - your mileage may vary):

Version 3.5.1 (August 2003) download (5.5 MB) NOTE (7/2021): download server is not working, so please use my email address to send a request for a personal download link

• See: screen shots
• many cosmetic changes
• added automated assignment of colors, and handling of colors on the SeqPage
  • right-click now allows selection of color in graphs or on SeqPage
  • supports 20 built-in colors, and arbitrarily large list of user-defined
    colors (which can be saved)
• support for identifying groups by a separator as well as by an ID length
• added support for display of Regions, at top or bottom of plot
• added QuickBootstrap, and option for deletion of workfiles generated by QuickTree
  and QuickBootStrap
• Enabled empiric window-by-window Ts/Tv estimation in bootscanning
• added support file formats: MSF, GDE FlatFile (export option in GDE)
• Improved labeling of vertical axis
• Improved support for non-US locales
• fixed bug in XP manifest that interfered with installation on some XP machines
• fixed various glitches that generated "range check" errors (did not affect results)
• fixed bug in ChartValuesToText, which was causing Range Check error

Version 3.2 (April 2002) download (3.9 MB)

• Many new features, including interactive informative sites analysis. Also some bug fixes, including problems with Locale settings that use "," as a decimal separator. See Version History for details.
• Runs under Windows 2000 and XP (as well as Win95/98/NT). Some users report that it works fine under Macintosh emulators, but I have not tested this.
• Does not require that PHYLIP is installed, though users should notify Joe Felsenstein that you are using the software since PHYLIP 3.5 code is embedded in version 3 of SimPlot (menu items under Help menu in SimPlot can make this easier for you, or you can register from this link: Register PHYLIP code)
• NOTE: some users of Windows 98 and Windows NT have had trouble using this version of SimPlot because of errors involveing "OLEAUT32.DLL". This is a Windows component that is needed for data export. To fix this, there are two main options (both free):
  • upgrade your Internet Explorer browser to version 5.5 (service pack 2) or higher, or
  • install an updated version of DCOM, which seems to be the culprit, and is available from MicroSoft: http://www.microsoft.com/com/tech/dcom.asp

Version 2.5 (March 18, 1999) download (1.2 MB)

• Now runs under Windows NT (as well as Win95/98)
• Note: bootscanning requires that you have installed PHYLIP (Windows 95 version, released 3/11/99).
• Click here to go to the PHYLIP ftp page (and download phylip95.exe).
• See documentation (included in download) for details.

Version 2.4 (March 5, 1999) download (1.2 MB)

• Bootscan arbitrary number of sequences
• Optionally save CONSENSE output files for viewing later
• Note: bootscanning requires that you have installed PHYLIP (386 DOS version).
• See documentation (included in download) for details.

version 1.3 (August 3, 1998) download (339 KB)

• Documentation for this version (also included in download)
• Version 1.3 was the version used in:

Lole KS, Bollinger RC, Paranjape RS, Gadkari D, Kulkarni SS, Novak NG, Ingersoll R, Sheppard HW, and Ray SC, "Full-Length Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Genomes from Subtype C-Infected Seroconverters in India, with Evidence of Intersubtype Recombination" J Virol 1999; 73(1):152-160

Where is SimPlot being used? go to top

It's been used in more than 850 publications that I know of, from the following countries:

• Africa
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Congo
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • The Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Kenya
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Senegal
  • South Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
• Asia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Burma
  • China
  • India
  • Iran
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Malaysia
  • Phillipines
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Tibet
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen
• Oceania
• Australia
• Indonesia
• Europe
  • Albania
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Georgia, Republic of
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Holland
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Luxembourg
  • Montenegro
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
• North and Central America
  • Canada
  • Cuba
  • Mexico
  • Panama
  • U.S.A.
• South America
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Please let me know if your country (or publication) is not listed.

Disclaimer:

This software is supplied as-is, with no warranty of any kind expressed or implied. I have made a reasonable effort to avoid errors in design and execution of this software, but will not be liable for its use or misuse. The user is solely responsible for the validity of any results generated. Specifically, the author and his employer are not liable for any damage or data loss resulting from the use of this software, even if it is due to negligence on the part of the author of this software.

This software and this document are the responsibility of Stuart Ray, M.D. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Johns Hopkins University. [Note to human correspondents - you will need to remove "nospam" from this email address for it to work. My hope is that automated readers (spam factories) won't notice.]