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Models and APIs for Genomic data. RETIRED 2018-01-24
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Retaining sample data with RNA quantifications #704

Closed david4096 closed 7 years ago

david4096 commented 8 years ago

The current RNA offering uses the Reads API to connect to sample information. This means that in order to find whether a given RNA quant is about this, or that sample, one must also host the read groups. This is problematic because there are many use cases that do not require the reads to be present.

Let's add a biosample ID to the RnaQuantification message. This redundancy does very little to increase data size but will greatly improve the usefulness of the endpoint. Currently, in the absence of reads, clever naming is the only method one has for identifying whether a quantification arrived from a specific sample. @saupchurch

mbaudis commented 8 years ago

+1

david4096 commented 7 years ago

Closed with https://github.com/ga4gh/schemas/pull/705