v108 released!

Announcing v108 release of the ENCODE portal, highlighted by the following updates: 

• Updated Cart to allow addition of Annotations and Functional Characterization Experiments
• Improved tooltip components throughout UI
• Created schema for Gene Silencing Series objects
• Added support for submission of AnnData .h5ad files
• Updated Valis browser to save coordinates when sorting tracks
• Fixed bug to allow visualization of FDR cut rate and footprints files in DNase-seq experiments, and bigBeds and bigWigs in Functional Characterization Experiments on the UCSC Genome browser
• Added alias namespace for Engreitz lab
• Removed the “warning” severity inconsistent analysis files audit
• Updated File output_type “smoothed methylation stage at CpG” to “smoothed methylation state at CpG”
• Removed duplicated text in changelog of DNase alignment quality metric schema
• Allowed display of average_fragment_size on Experiment summary page
• Added “linkers” property to Library
• Fixed bug impacting IHEC hubs for polyA plus RNA-seq data
• Updated Genetic Modification page to display modified_by_gene_id metadata
• Displayed Genetic Modification documents on the summary page for Functional Characterization experiments
• Added “pct_general_reads”, “average_coverage”, “general_reads”, “correct_pairs” properties to GembsAlignmentQualityMetric
• Modified biosample summary to include tissue or organoid classification information
• Displayed strand specificity on Experiment page
• Modified file detail tab on Experiment page so raw data is always displayed, regardless of assembly selection

v108 software version: https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/encoded/releases/tag/v108.0

All of the source code used for the portal website is open source and available through our repository hosted at GitHub (www.github.com/ENCODE-DCC/)