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Thanks to the users who wrote in about their issues with opening protein lists in STRAP. Unimod recently changed how they link to certain information that STRAP utilizes. If you have been using STRAP and noticed that you can no longer download any information on any protein lists you open, it's because of this very issue. STRAP has a new patch in the downloads section (called STRAP-fix2.exe) that addresses this issue. Download it to your STRAP installation folder and replace the old STRAP.exe with this file.

Thank you to all users of STRAP - to date, there have been over 1000 downloads of the software. Another thank you to the users of STRAP who pointed out a bug in the bar chart feature, in which the bars were giving the wrong axis labels in some cases. When a particular GO category had 0 annotations associated with it, it would cause a shift of every GO annotation count by 1 category. This is now fixed, and bar charts should display GO annotation counts correctly. The updated executable file can be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpctools/files/STRAP/version1.1/STRAP-fix1.exe/download. As always, please contact us with any questions, issues, or suggestions. Thanks!

STRAP (Software Tool for Researching Annotations of Proteins) is open-source protein annotation software with data visualization. It is a user-friendly, open-source C# application that we have created to help automate the protein annotation process. STRAP automatically finds gene ontology (GO) terms associated with proteins in a results ID list, using the freely accessible UniprotKB database, and summarizes this information in an easy-to-navigate tabular format. Additionally, GO term annotations can be edited by the user, allowing in-house expertise to be integrated into a dataset. STRAP provides graphical representation of GO-term data in pie and bar charts to aid in the interpretation of large datasets and to facilitate the comparison between multiple datasets.