Table 2 Categories of attribute names according to the concept they represent.
From: The variable quality of metadata about biological samples used in biomedical experiments
Category | Attribute names |
|---|---|
Biomedical characteristic | breed, ethnicity, host, sample_type, organism, tissue, species, strain, sex, body site, cell type, genotype, disease state, … |
Date | collection date, collection timestamp, time point |
Geographic location | geo_loc_name, geographic location, lat_lon, country, latitude and longitude, grographic location (country and/or sea) |
Measurement | depth, elevation, age, altitude, host_age |
Identifier | sample id, package, model, gap_accession, gap_sample_id, … |
Textual description | Sample_title, project name, Sample Name, label, title, study name, common name, secondary description, source name, … |
