SEEK version 1.7.0

[Stuart Owen]

Hi,

A new version of SEEK is now available, version 1.7.0. Full details can
be found at https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/releases/

It includes,

- Programme wide sharing permissions

- ISA graph improvements (
https://docs.seek4science.org/help/user-guide/isa-overview )

- Changes to Sample Type visibility, freeing up any user to create a
Sample Type. Sample Types only become visible outside of a Project if it
has public samples associated.

- Special support for for NCBI sample attribute types, that
automatically link to Organisms registered with SEEK (this is part of a
plan to replace Strains with a dedicated Sample Type)

- Linking Documents to Events, and vice versa.

There has also been quite a bit of back-end maintenance and tidying up.

The guide to upgrade is available at
https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/upgrading.html. Note that with this
version Ruby 2.4 is required, using 2.2 or 2.3 will result in errors.

The fairdom/seek:1.7 docker image is also available, and upgrading for
Docker Compose can be found at the end of
https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/docker/docker-compose.html


regards,

Stuart & the FAIRDOM team.