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Guide to entering life sciences metadata

Updated at: 24/07/2026

This guide is currently being compiled. Some of the information may be updated shortly.

 

  1. Life Sciences Metadata
    1. Design Type
    2. Other Design Type
    3. Factor Type
    4. Other Factor Type
    5. Organism
    6. Other organism
    7. Measurement Type
    8. Other Measurement Type
    9. Technology Type
    10. Other Technology Type
    11. Technology Platform
    12. Other Technology Platform
    13. Cell Type
    14. Sample Type
    15. Protocol Type

Life Sciences Metadata

 

Design Type

Based on the “Study Design Type” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

Design types that are based on the overall experimental design. (Optional)

Note: That is a value-list controlled metadata, please see the list below.

  • Case Control
  • Cross Sectional
  • Cohort Study
  • Nested Case Control Design
  • Not Specified
  • Parallel Group Design
  • Perturbation Design
  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Technological Design
  • Other

Cohort Study

 

Other Design Type

Based on the “Study Design Type” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

If Other was selected in Design Type, list any other design types that were used in this Dataset. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add another design type.

Seroepidemiologic Studies

 

Factor Type

Based on the “Study FactorType” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

Factor used in the Dataset. (Optional)

Note: That is a value-list controlled metadata, please see the list below.

  • Age
  • Biomarkers
  • Cell Surface Markers
  • Cell Type/Cell Line
  • Developmental Stage
  • Disease State
  • Drug Susceptibility
  • Extract Molecule
  • Genetic Characteristics
  • Immunoprecipitation Antibody
  • Organism
  • Passages
  • Platform
  • Sex
  • Strain
  • Time Point
  • Tissue Type
  • Treatment Compound
  • Treatment Type
  • Other

Cell Surface Markers

 

Other Factor Type

Based on the “Study FactorType” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

If Other was selected in Factor Type, list any other factor types that were used in this Dataset. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add another factor type.

Cell Surface Antigen

 

Organism

Based on the NCBI taxonomy.

The taxonomic name of the organism used in the Dataset or from which the starting biological material derives. (Optional)

Note: That is a value-list controlled metadata, please see the list below.

  • Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Bos taurus
  • Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
  • Danio rerio (zebrafish)
  • Dictyostelium discoideum
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Escherichia coli
  • Hepatitis C virus
  • Homo sapiens
  • Mus musculus
  • Mycobacterium africanum
  • Mycobacterium canetti
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae
  • Oryza sativa
  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Pneumocystis carinii
  • Rattus norvegicus
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast)
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe
  • Takifugu rubripes
  • Xenopus laevis
  • Zea mays
  • Other

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

 

Other organism

If Other was selected in Organism, list any other organisms that were used in this Dataset. We strongly recommend to use the NCBI taxonomy. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add another organism.

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

 

Measurement Type

Based on the “Study Assay Measurement” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

A term to qualify the endpoint, or what is being measured. (Optional)

Note: That is a value-list controlled metadata, please see the list below.

  • Cell sorting
  • Clinical chemistry analysis
  • Copy number variation profiling
  • DNA methylation profiling
  • DNA methylation profiling (Bisulfite-Seq)
  • DNA methylation profiling (MeDIP-Seq)
  • Drug susceptibility
  • Environmental gene survey
  • Genome sequencing
  • Hematology
  • Histology
  • Histone Modification (ChIP-Seq)
  • Loss of heterozygosity profiling
  • Metabolite profiling
  • Metagenome sequencing
  • Protein expression profiling
  • Protein identification
  • Protein-DNA binding site identification
  • Protein-protein interaction detection
  • Protein-RNA binding (RIP-Seq)
  • SNP analysis
  • Targeted sequencing
  • Transcription factor binding (ChIP-Seq)
  • Transcription factor binding site identification
  • Transcription profiling
  • Transcription profiling (Microarray)
  • Transcription profiling (RNA-Seq)
  • TRAP translational profiling
  • Other

Protein identification

 

Other Measurement Type

Based on the “Study Assay Measurement” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

If Other was selected in Measurement Type, list any other measurement type that were used. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add another measurement type.

High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing

 

Technology Type 

Based on the “Study Assay Technology Type” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

A term to identify the technology used to perform the measurement. (Optional)

Note: That is a value-list controlled metadata, please see the list below.

  • Culture based drug susceptibility testing, single concentration
  • Culture based drug susceptibility testing, two concentrations
  • Culture based drug susceptibility testing, three or more concentrations (minimium inhibitory concentration measurement)
  • DNA microarray
  • Flow cytometry
  • Gel electrophoresis
  • Mass spectrometry
  • NMR spectroscopy
  • Nucleotide sequencing
  • Protein microarray
  • Real time PCR
  • No technology required
  • Other

Mass sprectrometry

 

Other Technology Type

Based on the “Study Assay Technology Type” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

If Other was selected in Technology Type, list any other technology types that were used in this Dataset.

Click on the (+) button to add another technology type.

Crystallography

 

Technology Platform

Based on the “Study Assay Technology Platform” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

The manufacturer and name of the technology platform used in the assay.

Note: That is a value-list controlled metadata

maXis G4 (Bruker)

 

Other Technology Platform

Based on the “Study Assay Technology Platform” metadata from the ISA Model and Serialization Specifications.

If Other was selected in Technology Platform, list any other technology platforms that were used in this Dataset. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add another technology platform.

AVANCE (Bruker)

 

Cell Type

The name of the cell line from which the source or sample derives. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add a cell type.

HeLa Cells

 

Sample Type

Sample description. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add a sample type.

Raw milks from 26 farms

 

Protocol Type

Protocol type. (Optional)

Click on the (+) button to add a protocol type.

Spontaneous fermentation of the raw milks, then serial fermentations in  sterile milk; pH monitoring during each fermentation and metabarcoding  (16S V3-V4) on raw milks and after each fermentation

 

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