What is the current state for AnnotationHub (2)? I have recently figured
out (read: pestered the people who knows the arcane incantations for this
resource; I have been taught the sacred rituals) the interface to the
encode data portal and we should make an AnnotationHub interface to this.
But should this be old-style or new?
Also, this has uncovered a table of structured metadata for the resource,
essentially a spreadsheet with organized columns. It seems very relevant
for users to get access to the data in this spreadsheet, which would
essentially be a resource dependent data.frame. I don't think this is
supported by the classic AnnotationHub, but I very much think this should
be supported in the future. One could also envision resource and
dataset-dependent information such as the phenotypes in GEO for a fixed
experiment.
Best,
Kasper