I am adding data to a ReDU-MS2-GNPS template for metadata for an upcoming job, and see significant omissions that are making it hard to fill out accurately
SampleTypeSub1 column: very strange and incomplete taxonomic list. For instance why are frog and salamander options, but not fish or mammal or helminth or .... (any of a number of other taxonomic groups). I'm using fish, but will just enter "tissue". And "tissue" is vague because it might be animal or plant or any other macroorganism's tissue. at a minimum if plants are an option, animal should be. And more broadly why not list a more complete set of taxonomic groups?
SampleCollection column: why isn't "solid material, preserved" an option (e.g., ethanol-preserved samples work okay, but are neither fresh nor frozen nor dried.
Having LatitudeandLongitude as one column is inconvenient as many of us have these in separate columns in the spreadsheets we keep on hand.
I'm surprised there is no column to record "population" or "genotype" or "location" at a finer scale than country and lat/long
I am adding data to a ReDU-MS2-GNPS template for metadata for an upcoming job, and see significant omissions that are making it hard to fill out accurately
SampleTypeSub1 column: very strange and incomplete taxonomic list. For instance why are frog and salamander options, but not fish or mammal or helminth or .... (any of a number of other taxonomic groups). I'm using fish, but will just enter "tissue". And "tissue" is vague because it might be animal or plant or any other macroorganism's tissue. at a minimum if plants are an option, animal should be. And more broadly why not list a more complete set of taxonomic groups?
SampleCollection column: why isn't "solid material, preserved" an option (e.g., ethanol-preserved samples work okay, but are neither fresh nor frozen nor dried.
Having LatitudeandLongitude as one column is inconvenient as many of us have these in separate columns in the spreadsheets we keep on hand.
I'm surprised there is no column to record "population" or "genotype" or "location" at a finer scale than country and lat/long