The choice of biomaterial_type has direct impacts on what to use in sample_type. "Primary tissue" would lead to e.g. "Brain" as sample_type, while "Cell line" would lead to e.g. "H1-hESC". It could perhaps be called sample category, or similar.
[x] Improve documentation of attribute
[x] Consider name change
[x] Look into ICGC and find whether one could add other categories
sveinugu
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4 years ago
From https://github.com/orgs/fairtracks/teams/fairtracks-developers/discussions/14
This is directly from IHEC: https://github.com/IHEC/ihec-metadata/blob/master/specs/Ihec_metadata_specification.md#samples, and is a controlled vocabulary of:
The choice of biomaterial_type has direct impacts on what to use in sample_type. "Primary tissue" would lead to e.g. "Brain" as sample_type, while "Cell line" would lead to e.g. "H1-hESC". It could perhaps be called sample category, or similar.