July 6th, 2020

  • The SPARC portal is enhanced with a new “Maps” section which provides a visually appealing user interface to navigate through anatomically/physiologically accurate structure of various species.
  • A new gallery viewer interface is introduced on the dataset page for the user to view the graphical thumbnail gallery of images (including 3D image stacks), videos, and scaffold data.
  • A documentation link is added to the File browser of a dataset to present guidance on how to navigate the dataset format.

Improved

  • The searched keyword(s) are now highlighted on the result page of the document for easy identification of the search results.
  • Each dataset now displays the point of contact for the user to reach them for more information directly.
  • The project pages are renewed to display the complete descriptions of the projects.
  • The citation formats are updated along with a new button to copy them quickly. More so the datasets are properly ingested by Endnote, Mendeley, and Zotero.