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updated biotype functionality to mimic legacy behaviour of setting through biotype() and defaulting to 'protein_coding'

[ENSCORESW-1096]. Would be useful if the labels in POD would reflect the reality, but these have never been updated and have been out of date for a very long time.

[ENSCORESW-2507]. Include select statement column in aggregate function to allow compatibility with MySQL 5.7 and above.

Oracle DB connections: if host is given, use it

- automatically retrieve deadlines from Release calendar
- changed created tickets for handover of REST to Web
- use the Metadata Registry to validate species names