v109 released!

Announcing v109 release of the ENCODE portal, highlighted by the following updates: 

• Added support for .starch file format
• Allow GenBank reagents in Genetic Modification objects
• Added “gene stabilities” and “preprocessed alignments” output_types for Files
• Fixed Dataset Search button in Cart to include all dataset types
• Fixed alignment of expanding arrows on Matrix pages
• Displayed location property info on Gene pages
• Displayed Biosample Characterizations on Transgenic Enhancer Experiment pages
• Added “supersedes” and “superseded_by” properties to Analysis objects
• Added SCREEN links to Experiment search result pages
• Added new facet on Functional Characterization Experiment search page for processed data
• Added audit to flag experiments with libraries that have inconsistent strand specificity
• Updated ontologies
• Fixed missing genes in gene lookup bug
• Reduced severity of “missing RNA fragment size” audit for Bru-seq experiments
• Added “related_pipelines” property to Reference file sets
• Created Quality Standard object and added generation of quality metrics report for Analyses
• Modified display of “Visualize” column in certain experiments

v109 software version: https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/encoded/releases/tag/v109.0

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/)