v121 released!

August 19, 2021

Announcing v121 release of the ENCODE portal, highlighted by the following updates: 

  • Released matrix page for Rush AD collection
  • Improved UI for Cart file view feature
  • Added navigation link to Single Cell landing page
  • Allowed SingleCellUnit objects to be added to Carts
  • Updated link to Azure open dataset in toolbar
  • Embedded originated_from property of Biosamples to Experiments
  • Added “functional conservation quantifications,” “genome compartment identification,” “sparse peak count matrix,” “redacted transcriptome alignments,” “redacted alignments,” and “fragments” enums to File output_type and Analysis Step input_file_types and output_file_types
  • Added “cross-species functional conservation” enum to Annotation annotation_type 
  • Added “hongkai-ji” as an alias namespace
  • Changed default File gallery tab on Experiment pages to the genome browser
  • Updated Series pages to display control datasets in a separated table section
  • Consolidated handling of strain metadata in biosample_summary of Biosamples and Datasets
  • Updated facets and UI for Functional Characterization Series search page
  • Adjusted labeling of facets for “term name” related properties
  • Added information about examined loci to search results of Functional Characterization Experiment search page
  • Added table to Reference and Annotation pages for Functional Characterization Experiments using the Reference or Annotation
  • Modified regex pattern for Genetic Modification reagents property to permit additional Thermo Fisher identifiers
  • Changed elements_mapping property of Functional Characterization Experiments to an array
  • Implemented dependency enforcing control type for pooled clone sequencing datasets
  • Added audit to flag CRISPR screen datasets not belonging to series
  • Added audit to flag raw data files lacking step_run metadata
  • Added audit to flag Annotations with no files
  • Added paging feature to Single Cell RNA Series page
  • Fixed display of mixed assemblies in File tables of Experiments and prevented non-standard assemblies from appearing on the genome browser
  • Fixed bug causing Mouse Development Matrix page to crash
  • Fixed UI bug where biosample term names were not displayed correctly on Project pages
  • Fixed broken links on RNA-Get page

v121 software version: https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/encoded/releases/tag/v121.0

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/)