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@theisuru theisuru released this 23 Mar 15:33
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New features

  • Authentication
    We have added additional authentication support in BioSamples. With this release BioSamples users can authenticate using EBML-EBI’s European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) WEBIN authentication service (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/submit/webin/auth). This is especially useful for users who intend to submit their sample metadata to BioSamples and sequencing data to ENA as shared, identical WEBIN credentials can be used to submit to both BioSamples and ENA.
    BioSamples continues to support the existing AAP authentication mechanism. AAP authentication is the default mode and current users using AAP authentication to submit sample metadata to BioSamples are not required to do any changes to their submission routines.
    More information related to authentication could be found here - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/docs/guides/authentication
  • Sample search results bulk download
    A new API enables downloading searching and bulk downloading results up to a maximum of 100,000 samples. The API supports text search and samples filtering. When search results exceed the maximum allowable download size, only the first 100,000 samples will be downloaded. Download buttons were also added to the search user interface. Currently this supports downloading samples as JSON, XML or accession list only.
  • Validation checklist in samples body (similar to existing ENA checklists)
    Samples are validated at submission time. They are by default validated against the biosamples-minimal (ERC100001) checklist. Users can additionally provide the name of a known checklist in the sample body; when provided, this is also used for validation.
    If validation fails, the submission will be rejected. This enables users to define their preferred validation checklist at submission time. Please refer to the validation guide to see available checklists.
    The validation API is also available independently of submission and can be used to validate samples without submitting.
    We have updated our documentation to reflect these changes in certification and validation.

Bug fixes

  • Link to new ENA browser - Samples having external reference to ENA were using the old ENA browser links. This has now been updated to link to the new ENA browser.

Example:
Old link - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/SAMEA5776016

New link - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/SAMEA5776016

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