v115 released!

April 15, 2021

Announcing v115 release of the ENCODE portal, highlighted by the following updates: 

  • Added annotation_subtype property to Annotations with Valis genome browser support
  • Added new “single cell” assay slim
  • Changed “scATAC-seq” assay term name to “snATAC-seq”
  • Created new Single Cell Unit object
  • Added “perturbation followed by scRNA-seq” and ‘perturbation followed by snATAC-seq” enums for Functional Characterization Experiment assay_term_name
  • Added genome browser and file facets to Series pages
  • Adjusted biosample summary generation code to remove redundant “originated from” phrases
  • Added link to Azure ENCODE data mirror in toolbar menu
  • Added Disease facet to Experiment search
  • Updated glossary with additional definitions
  • Added Pulse Chase Time Series objects
  • Added pulse_chase_time property to Biosamples
  • Added analysis_objects to Functional Characterization Experiments
  • Modified Experiment page to allow visualization of Analysis audits
  • Migrated assay-specific audits on Experiments to Analyses
  • Adjusted calculation of Analysis title
  • Allowed submission of Analyses by non-DCC submitters
  • Allowed downloading of files from Reference, Project, and UCSC Browser Composite pages
  • Added biosample columns to RNA Get table and made other UI adjustments
  • Added “unstranded” enum to Library strand_specificity
  • Removed duplicated facet definition in File

v115 software version: https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/encoded/releases/tag/v115.0

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/)