InterMine 4.2.0 release

We are pleased to announce the new InterMine release 4.2.0.
It includes new functionalities to support the upcoming BlueGenes release 0.10.0, some improvementes on FAIR side and a few bugs fixes.
This is a non-disruptive release.
Thank you so much to our contributors: Ahmed Hafez, Asher Pasha and Sam Hokin!

BlueGenes related improvements

  1. Added /login web service that merges the anonymous session with the user logged in.
  2. Added /logout web service.
  3. Added a new webservice to change the users’s password.
  4. Updated the existing /lists webservice which allows modifying the list description.
  5. Improvements on the Date type (to support CovidMine).

BlueGenes 0.10.0 will be released soon and announced in a separate blog.

FAIR related improvements

  1. Simplified the webservice that generates Bioschemas markup for the report page.
  2. Adopted DataRecord in the report page.
  3. Added Gene, Protein markup in the report page.
  4. Added BioChemEntity markup in the report page (only if configured).
  5. Added the ontology licences to the obo converters.

Bug Fixes / Improvements

  1. Added a new bio source to load ISA files in json format
  2. Fixed organism short name generation (Ahmed Hafez)
  3. Fixed a bug related to long fields in the report page (Asher Pasha)
  4. Removed BioEntity.ontologyAnnotations because redundant (Sam Hokin)
  5. Fixed src.data.dir.include (gff3 and xml) ans src.data.dir (intermine-items-xml-file)
  6. UniProtFastaLoader works with organism names longer than 2 words (for example Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2)

See release notes for detailed information.

Upcoming releases

For more information about the upcoming releases, please visit the InterMine Development Roadmap. More details on the roadmap here.