v126 released!

January 18, 2022

Announcing v126 release of the ENCODE portal, highlighted by the following updates: 

  • Schema changes
    • Added Bru Library Quality Metric,  STARsolo Quality Metric, scRNA-seq Counts Summary Quality Metric, and Segway Quality Metric object schemas
    • Added “functional characterization mapping” enum to File output_type
    • Modified Annotation assay_term_name to be an array
    • Updated scATAC Alignment Quality Metric mito_stats to permit both .tsv and .txt files
    • Added positions_with_two_reads property to scATAC Library Complexity Quality Metric
    • Added charles-lee namespace for aliases
    • Added trait property to Annotations for use with Annotations of annotation_type “fine-mapped variants”
    • Changed Gene locations to not be an empty array by default
    • Added inclusion_list property to Library
  • UI changes
    • Implemented new home page
    • Implemented Donor-centric collection page
    • Implemented Immune Cells collection page
    • Fixed bug where Antibody Lot page would not render if targets was not specified
    • Updated titles of search results for CRISPR screens
    • Added elements cloning and elements mapping columns to tables on Functional Characterization Series pages
    • Added sex facet to Experiment search
    • Fixed bug where some tracks were missing labels in Valis genome browser
    • Updated Cart Manager UI
    • Fixed bug affecting permissions on Series pages
  • Other changes
    • Added assay slim for Ribo-seq to ontology file
    • Added system slims for various immune related biosample ontology terms
    • Applied fixes for log4j vulnerability
    • Fixed bug in biosample culture harvest date audit 
    • Updated calculation of biosample summaries for CRISPR screens

v126 software version: https://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/encoded/releases/tag/v126.0

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/)