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"This release introduces several new features including:

 

 

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• Improved mapping capabilities — you can now specify occurrence symbol size and
   
              colour, and overlay a context layer (such as country boundaries) on your output map.
• Experiments run in their own thread — this makes for a more responsive user interface
   
              and you can look at completed models whilst the experiment is still running.
• Web Service modelling improvements — improvement have been made to allow better job progress
   
              reporting when running as a web sevice.
• Absence modelling is now supported — previous versions of openModellerDesktop did not
   
              handle absence data properly so absence modelling was not available.
• GBIF Rest Data Fetcher (work sponsored by GBIF with our thanks!) — it is now possible to
   
              retrieve occurrence data using the new GIF Rest query service. The data fetcher has also
   
              had various cosmetic and useability improvements, and now functions as a wizard.
• New algorithms — openModeller Desktop now ships with two new algorithms (Support Vector
   
              Machines and Bioclim Score).
• Thresholding tool — you can now compute 'hotspot' models showing the predicted species
   
              count per cell by aggregating many model outputs into a single raster file. The threshold
   
              tool can also be used for 'concensus' modelling where many algorithms are used for a single
   
              species and all the resulting probability distribution maps are combined to provide a map
   
              indicating where most algorithms are in agreement that a species will ocurr at a given cell.
• Translation to Traditional Chinese

 
The release also includes numerous other enhancements, bug fixes and stability improvements.
openModeller Desktop is available in source form, and as binary executables for Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS X, and Ubuntu 7.10 GNU/Linux. All versions can be obtained from our download page.

 
As an open source project, we provide support for using openModeller via our mailing lists and bug tracker:

 

 

• For general enquiries subscribe to our users mailing list.
• For developer related enquiries subscribe to our separate developers list.
• If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact information in case we need help with replicating your issue.

 
Known Issues:

 

 

• The threshold tool can crash with large datasets, this will be addressed in next release.

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