GSEA v4.0.x Release Notes

GSEA Desktop v4.0.0 (Aug 2019)

Updates for the MSigDB v7.0 release.
The code has been updated to be compatible with Java 11 and the (free) OpenJDK version of Java.
New options for downloading and launching the application:
- Windows installer, Mac app, and Linux bundle, each with an embedded OpenJDK Java 11, which means no separate Java installation is needed.
- Command-line scripts for running batch analyses, which means users no longer need to enter Java commands directly. Note that a separate Java 11 installation is required.
- Note: Launching the application using Java Web Start still requires a separate Java 8 installation.
Miscellaneous performance improvements and code simplifications. These add up to a roughly 40% improvement in our informal testing.
Changed the Cytoscape integration to avoid issues with platform-specific launching issues, newer Cytoscape versions, multiple installations, custom installations, and so on. The integration now prompts the user to launch Cytoscape manually before it attempts to connect. Cytoscape 3.3+ is required.
Fixed an indefinite wait cursor in the Leading Edge Tool.

DAVID I WANT TO REMOVE THIS ONE. UNLESS THERE ARE ANY USER-FACING IMPLICATIONS OF THIS CHANGE? IN WHICH CASE CAN THEY BE DESCRIBED INSTEAD? Removed implicit dependence on out-of-date internal annotation CHIP file. Removed other special CHIP handling code to avoid conflicting with the results of the new symbol conversion from MSigDB 7.0 and better support RNA-Seq workflows. Annotations now come from the CHIP used to collapse, or else from the dataset itself (and are left untouched).