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Potential documentation topic for metadata: understanding globally unique ID #12

Open pvangay opened 2 years ago

pvangay commented 2 years ago

Champions reported during beta testing the Submission Portal that they were unsure of what values could go into this field. They were unfamiliar with UUIDs and IGSNs. They had a Biosample Accession for their sample but that didn't seem valid for this field.

We should provide better documentation to walk users how to fill this out. Also, I can't recall if we'll ever mint our own IDs... but would be good to address that too.

FYI @mslarae13