1.6.1

• Improve support for analysing SRA and user-owned data:
  • New tutorial on performing alternative splicing analysis using SRA and user-owned data from FASTQ files (other tutorials were also updated)
  • Process gene and splice junction counts from STAR output for subsequent loading into psichomics
  • Automatically download and load data from select SRA projects using the recount R package
• Data grouping:
  • Preview groups based on selected attribute before creation
• Gene, transcript and protein information:
  • Display alternative splicing events in transcript plot
• Correlation between gene expression and alternative splicing:
  • Allow to change plot height and font size

Bug fixes and minor changes

• Support new version of Human (hg38 assembly) alternative splicing annotation (fixes wrong coordinates for many minus-strand splicing events)
• Fix issues with TCGA sample metadata:
  • No sample metadata loaded when loading TCGA files from local folder
  • Not retrieving sample metadata for all TCGA samples when multiple junction quantification files are loaded
• Data grouping:
  • Correctly suggest how to select variables in subset expression and give more examples on how to use this feature
  • Fix subject/sample attributes not being updated for selection for the GREP interface
  • Fix error alerts not appearing when trying to create groups based on invalid parameters
  • Add an error alert when trying to extract group data from an user-provided file without such information
• Alternative splicing quantification:
  • Fix crash when quantifying splicing for a single sample
• Differential splicing analysis (exploratory):
  • Fix crash when inputting non-numeric values or minimum larger than the maximum limit as the axes for the splicing scatter plot