d0632693bee08bf61b7990e0c6a1de8c050e337f
mspeir
  Sat Aug 1 20:53:09 2026 -0700
singleCellSignalsPeaks: color by cell class, harmonize labels and facets (hg38)

Overhaul of the hg38 track and the shared build scripts it and the mm10 track
are generated from:

- Color every subtrack by broad cell class from one colorblind-conscious palette
(shared with the mm10 track, so a class is the same color on both assemblies);
add a color legend to the description page.
- Add a "Cell class" facet; the fine cell type becomes a searchable table column.
Group subtracks by class via priority; every subtrack is off by default.
- Paper-curated cell-type names, redundant-synonym merges, QC-cluster drop, and
per-collection tissue/life-stage/condition (including the SEA-AD region and
ADNC neuropathology level, from Gabitto 2024 and Hawrylycz 2024).
- Rebuild the longLabels from the harmonized cell type + facets, so the cryptic
source short labels decode.
- Reclassify 10 mislabeled interaction bigBeds out of the signal/peaks composite,
retype a narrowPeak-format bigBed, and drop deprecated *.old data
(936 -> 925 subtracks).
- Archive the curation with the scripts: build_celltype_crosswalks.py and
celltype-crosswalks/ (per-collection crosswalks, palette, class map, and the
paper-decode source tables).

refs #37914

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
index fa949999a02..ed61e982ffd 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
+++ src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
@@ -1,72 +1,85 @@
 # hg38 singleCellSignalsPeaks track  -  2026-07-20  Claude (mspeir)  refs #37820
 
 # The native hg38 "singleCellSignalsPeaks" faceted composite is the Genome
 # Browser version of the UCSC Cell Browser all-tracks super hub (Redmine #37820,
 # built under /hive/users/mspeir/claude/cell-browser/all-tracks-hub-build). It
 # gathers the per-cell-type signal (bigWig) and peak (bigBed / bigNarrowPeak)
 # tracks from the single-cell ATAC datasets in the Cell Browser and re-parents
 # them under one faceted composite. cCREs and interactions live in their own
 # composites in the hub and are NOT part of this track.
 
 ##############################################################################
 # 1. Source data
 ##############################################################################
 # The track mirrors the hub's main hg38 signal-&-peaks faceted composite
 # (cellBrowserHg38). That composite and its facet metadata are produced by the
 # hub build from the Cell Browser dataset tree (/hive/data/inside/cells/datasets):
 #
 #   cd /hive/users/mspeir/claude/cell-browser/all-tracks-hub-build
 #   python3 build_manifest.py            # scan datasets -> manifest.tsv
 #   python3 build_stanzas.py             # manifest -> stanzas/hg38.trackDb.txt
 #                                        #            + meta/hg38.metadata.tsv
 #
 # The per-track source files (abs_path column of manifest.tsv) are the files the
 # Cell Browser datasets already serve; nothing is regenerated here, only copied.
 
 ##############################################################################
 # 2. Copy the data files into place  (bed dir, served via a /gbdb symlink)
 ##############################################################################
 # Every subtrack of the cellBrowserHg38 composite is copied into
 #   /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/singleCellSignalsPeaks/<served-relpath>
 # keeping each file's served relative path (e.g.
 #   human-enhancer-atlas/.../Adipocyte.bw ,
 #   allen-brain-science/seaad_MTG/bw/ADNC0Astro.bw ).
 # The served subpath is preserved on purpose: 18 peak-file basenames repeat
 # across datasets (cortex-atac), so a flat directory would clobber them.
 #   936 files total (bigWig + bigBed/bigNarrowPeak), ~206 GB.
 #
 # The file list comes straight from the composite's bigDataUrl lines mapped back
 # to manifest abs_paths; copy each abs_path to bed/<relpath> (mkdir -p parents).
 
 ##############################################################################
 # 3. Generate the trackDb .ra
 ##############################################################################
 # makeSingleCellSignalsPeaksRa.py reads the hub's hg38 stanzas, keeps the
 # cellBrowserHg38 subtracks, renames the composite to singleCellSignalsPeaks,
 # repoints every bigDataUrl at the local /gbdb copy, and writes the .ra with
 # group=regulation (ATAC signal/peaks sit with the ENCODE regulatory tracks).
 # Subtrack colors and labels (incl. the SEA-AD subclass colors) carry through.
 #
 #   scriptDir=$HOME/kent/src/hg/makeDb/scripts/singleCellSignalsPeaks
 #   python3 $scriptDir/makeSingleCellSignalsPeaksRa.py \
 #       --stanzas /hive/users/mspeir/claude/cell-browser/all-tracks-hub-build/stanzas/hg38.trackDb.txt \
 #       --out $HOME/kent/src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.ra
 #
 # https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/tree/master/src/hg/makeDb/scripts/singleCellSignalsPeaks
 
 ##############################################################################
 # 4. Facet metadata
 ##############################################################################
 # The faceted composite's metaDataUrl points at a copy of the hub's hg38
 # main-faceted metadata (primaryKey = Track):
 #
 #   cp /hive/users/mspeir/claude/cell-browser/all-tracks-hub-build/meta/hg38.metadata.tsv \
 #      /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/singleCellSignalsPeaks/singleCellSignalsPeaks_metadata.tsv
 
+##############################################################################
+# 5. Labels, colors, and facets
+##############################################################################
+# The cell type / cell class / longLabel / color / facet values are all derived
+# by build_stanzas.py, not copied from the source hubs. That logic (paper-curated
+# cell-type crosswalks, the shared broad-class color palette, the rebuilt
+# longLabels, and the per-collection tissue/life-stage/condition parsing incl.
+# SEA-AD region + ADNC) is documented once in doc/mm10/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
+# section 4; it runs identically for hg38. Tracks are colored by broad cell class
+# from the same palette as mm10, so a class is the same color on both assemblies.
+
 ##############################################################################
 # Counts
 ##############################################################################
-# 936 subtracks across 9 datasets: human-enhancer-atlas (444), sea-ad-brain-atac
-# (184), cortex-atac (91), retina (69), neuro-degen-atac (67),
+# 936 files resolved across 9 datasets: human-enhancer-atlas (444),
+# sea-ad-brain-atac (184), cortex-atac (91), retina (69), neuro-degen-atac (67),
 # multiomic-human-heart (40), cardiogenesis-atac (19), olg-eae-ms (18),
-# brainvar (4). Facet metadata rows match the subtracks 1:1.
+# brainvar (4). 10 mislabeled interaction bigBeds (cortex-atac interact.old/) are
+# reclassified to the interact composite and 1 QC cluster is dropped, leaving 925
+# subtracks in the track. Facet metadata rows match the subtracks 1:1.