Table 2 SRA developer documentation (col_desc table found in SQLite DB)
From: Investigation into the annotation of protocol sequencing steps in the sequence read archive
Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
Study | study_abstract | Briefly describes the goals, purpose and scope of the Study. This need not be listed if it can be inherited from a referenced publication. |
Study | study_description | More extensive free-form description of the study. |
Sample | description | Free-form text describing the sample, its origin and its method of isolation. |
Experiment | design_description | More details about the set-up and goals of the experiment as supplied by the Investigator. |
Experiment | library_selection | Whether any method was used to select and/or enrich the material being sequenced. |
Experiment | library_construction_protocol | Free-form text describing the protocol by which the sequencing library was constructed. |
Experiment | experiment_attribute | Properties and attributes of the experiment. These can be entered as free-form tag-value pairs. |