550a0e2666bcce27181a0cb0eab32ed261e444f6
mspeir
  Thu Aug 27 14:56:42 2026 -0700
singleCellSignalsPeaks: color the Cell class facet checkboxes, refs #37820, refs #37914

The faceted UI already draws a color swatch beside each checkbox of any facet
named in a colorSettingsUrl JSON, and the track already colors its subtracks by
broad cell class from celltype-palette.tsv. Publish that palette so the selector
shows the same colors: copySingleCellSignalsPeaksFiles.py now writes
<bed>/singleCellSignalsPeaks_colors.json alongside the facet metadata, and the
composite header names it. Rendered from the one shared palette, so a class is
the same color in the checkbox list, in the drawn tracks, and on both assemblies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
index 34dac1a5c5f..ca007866604 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
+++ src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt
@@ -1,133 +1,140 @@
 # 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).
 # The hub build lives in the cellBrowser repo, ucsc/allTracksHub:
 #   https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/cellBrowser/tree/develop/ucsc/allTracksHub
 #
 # 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 $HOME/cellBrowser/ucsc/allTracksHub
 #   python3 build_manifest.py            # scan datasets -> manifest.tsv
 #   python3 build_stanzas.py             # manifest -> stanzas/hg38.trackDb.txt
 #                                        #            + meta/hg38.metadata.tsv
 #
 # The build writes its output to $CBHUB_OUT, NOT next to the scripts (that dir is
 # git-controlled). Default: /hive/data/inside/cells/all-tracks-hub-build
 #
 # 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.
 #   934 files total (bigWig + bigBed/bigNarrowPeak), ~274 GB as the copy script
 #   counts it (256 GiB; du reports 511 G because of GPFS block allocation).
 #
 # copySingleCellSignalsPeaksFiles.py skips files already up to date (same size and
 # a destination no older than its source), so a re-run after new data lands moves
 # only the new files -- adding the 9 stage-split brainvar bigWigs took ~1.2 GB and
 # 10 seconds even though the summary line still counts all 934 subtracks.
 #
 # 11 data files in the bed dir are no longer referenced by the .ra (134 MB): the 10
 # cortex-atac interact.old/ bigBeds reclassified to the interact composite and one
 # dropped QC cluster. Harmless, and both are explained above; delete them if the
 # dir is ever tidied.
 #
 # 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 carry through from the hub stanzas.
 #
 # Colors are the shared broad-cell-class palette, NOT each dataset's own scheme --
 # SEA-AD used to come through in its own subclass colors, and no longer does, so a
 # cell class is one color across every dataset and both assemblies. See
 # doc/mm10/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt sections 4 and 4b.
 #
 #   scriptDir=$HOME/kent/src/hg/makeDb/scripts/singleCellSignalsPeaks
 #   python3 $scriptDir/makeSingleCellSignalsPeaksRa.py \
 #       --stanzas $CBHUB_OUT/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
+# 4. Facet metadata and facet colors
 ##############################################################################
 # The faceted composite's metaDataUrl points at a copy of the hub's hg38
 # main-faceted metadata (primaryKey = Track):
 #
 #   cp $CBHUB_OUT/meta/hg38.metadata.tsv \
 #      /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/singleCellSignalsPeaks/singleCellSignalsPeaks_metadata.tsv
+#
+# Its colorSettingsUrl points at singleCellSignalsPeaks_colors.json in the same dir,
+# which gives the faceted UI a color swatch for each Cell class checkbox, matching the
+# color the subtracks of that class are drawn in. Both files are written by
+# copySingleCellSignalsPeaksFiles.py (section 2); the JSON is rendered from the shared
+# celltype-palette.tsv, so it is identical on hg38 and mm10. See
+# doc/mm10/singleCellSignalsPeaks.txt section 2 for the format and its gotchas.
 
 ##############################################################################
 # 5. Labels, colors, and facets
 ##############################################################################
 # The cell type / cell class / shortLabel / 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 short and long labels, the variant descriptors that keep every label
 # unique, 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.
 #
 # hg38-specific label notes:
 #   - cortex-atac calls peaks three ways and serves all three for each cell type.
 #     The method is a filename suffix on some files (AstroOligo_MACSpeaks.bb) and
 #     the containing directory on others (MACSpeaks/AstroOligo.bb) -- both layouts
 #     appear in the same dataset and the two files are genuinely different peak
 #     sets, so both forms are detected and named in the label.
 #   - human-enhancer-atlas rolls tissue-qualified fibroblast/endothelial clusters
 #     (Fibro_Muscle, Endothelial_General_2) up to one cell type; the source code
 #     goes in the label so the clusters stay distinguishable.
 #   - SEA-AD shortLabels carry a compact region + ADNC token (Astrocyte MTG A0),
 #     since the longLabel distinction alone would leave eight identical short
 #     labels per cell type (2 regions x 4 ADNC levels).
 
 ##############################################################################
 # Counts
 ##############################################################################
 # 934 subtracks across 9 datasets: human-enhancer-atlas (444),
 # sea-ad-brain-atac (184), cortex-atac (81), retina (69), neuro-degen-atac (66),
 # multiomic-human-heart (40), cardiogenesis-atac (19), olg-eae-ms (18),
 # brainvar (13). Mislabeled interaction bigBeds (cortex-atac interact.old/) are
 # reclassified to the interact composite and QC clusters are dropped before the
 # .ra is written. Facet metadata rows match the subtracks 1:1.
 # All 934 longLabels are unique; shortLabels are <=22 chars with no underscores.
 # Every subtrack has a broad cell class and a palette color (0 unclassified).
 # One track legitimately shows class "Unknown": neuro-degen-atac's cluster whose
 # source label is literally "Unannotated". That is a real palette class, not a
 # classification failure.
 #
 # brainvar went 4 -> 13 subtracks when the group sent stage-split pseudobulk
 # coverage: 5 prenatal and 4 postnatal added alongside the 4 original
 # combined-stage tracks. Progenitors are prenatal only, so 9 new files, not 10.
 # Their methods text says "a tile size of 1 kb" but the data is 100 bp (every
 # interval is 100 bp wide on 100 bp boundaries, matching the TileSize-100
 # filenames); 100 bp is what the description page states. Worth confirming with
 # them which they intended.