New ENCODE portal released

We are pleased to announce the release of the new ENCODE portal at https://www.encodeproject.org/. The ENCODE portal serves as the primary and comprehensive source for data and information about the ENCODE project. The portal contains tools for browsing and searching data generated by the ENCODE consortium via assays, biological samples, and experimental reagents used. View the Getting Started document for an introduction to the new ENCODE portal.

The portal includes all released ENCODE data from the production phase of the project, including newer data for 700+ assays that have been released under a rapid release policy. This policy releases the primary data (e.g., fastq sequence files) immediately after validation to data formatting standards. Processed data from these experiments will be released after quality assessment and uniform processing are complete. There is no moratorium on external use for this data. For more detail, view the new data release policy.

The ENCODE tools, genome browser tracks, and downloads developed during the first production phase will remain available at the UCSC Genome Browser site, http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE. Questions about the new ENCODE portal can be sent to encode-help@lists.stanford.edu.