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usefulness of pro_comp column not clear (?) #184

Closed olgavinduskova closed 4 years ago

olgavinduskova commented 5 years ago

Yesterday me and Alison were discussing some templates and became unsure about the usefulness of the pro_comp column (Are profile data from composite sample?), i.e. its added value to lyr_comp column (Are layer data from composite?). Can someone think of a case where a profile and respective layer data would be flagged "yes" in one of these columns but not in the other one and this would bring any extra information about the study design? Me and Alison thought that pro_comp column may be redundant because if there is any combining of samples into a composite sample, this will be already indicated by a flag in the lyr_comp column.

jb388 commented 5 years ago

I suppose there could be situations in which some layers of multiple profile have been composited, but not the entire profile. This seems like it would not be a common scenario. But at this point I think we may as well leave the field in the template.