Dear recount team,

First of all, congratulations this great resource, which I am regularly using for training and research.

I have a problem with several studies (e.g. SRP042620), where the structure of the pheno table extracted from RData files downloaded from recount differs between transcript and gene datasets.

For the gene dataset, the characteristics field is a CompressedCharacteristics (as expected)

phenoTable <- colData(rse_gene) ## phenotype per run class(phenoTable$characteristics) [1] "CompressedCharacterList" attr(,"package") [1] "IRanges" For the transcript dataset, it is a vector

phenoTable <- colData(rse_tx) ## phenotype per run class(phenoTable$characteristics) [1] "character" Is there a way to fix this ?

Many thanks,

Jacques van Helden