v118 released!

Announcing v118 release of the ENCODE portal, highlighted by the following updates: 

• Updated Software pages and added new page summarizing Software used by ENCODE
• Added biochemical input facet on Annotation search page
• Added azure_uri to Files
• Added HiCQualityMetric object to support submission of quality metrics from HiC pipeline
• Added “pairs,” “peptide quantifications,” “protein expression quantifications,” “novel peptides,” “allele-specific chromatin interactions,” “allele-specific variants,” “haplotype-specific alignments,” “diploid personal genome alignments,” “unidirectional peaks,” and “bidirectional peaks” enums to File output_type
• Adjusted File schema to support submission of fastqs from Ultima sequencing platform
• Added ENTEx donor accessions as enums for File assembly
• Added new assay terms “Ribo-seq,” “LC/MS Label-Free Quantification,” and “LC-MS/MS Isobaric Label Quantitative Proteomics,” and revised assay term “Capture Hi-C” to “capture Hi-C”
• Modified table for Functional Characterization Series pages to display examined_loci
• Added “calf,” “child,” “mixed stage,” and “newborn” enums to Annotation relevant_life_stage
• Added Disease metadata to Series pages
• Restored links to Factorbook from targets in Experiment search results
• Added promoter_details property for reagents of Genetic Modifications
• Updated internal tags for RegulomeDB
• Added internal_tags for Yale Immune Cells and Rush AD 
• Restored per-Analysis audits to file details tables on Experiment pages
• Added examined_regions property to Reference
• Added cCRE (all) track as default in Valis genome browser
• Added support for UCSC visualization of files from STARR-seq and MPRA assays
• Updated UI for batch downloading 
• Updated “title” of “wildtype_biosample” property of Biosample Characterizations
• Fixed bug preventing download of association graphs on Experiment pages
• Fixed bug where tables on Series pages did not display Target metadata

v118 software version: https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/encoded/releases/tag/v118.0

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/)