IMAGE (Innovative Management of Animal Genetic Resources) is a EU project with aims to enhance the use of genetic collections and to upgrade animal gene bank management. To achieve this goal, a well-defined data structure is the key to maintain the high quality of collected data and make them more re-usable. This repository contains two rule sets for sample and experiment to which all IMAGE samples will be standardised against. The ruleset contains a number of fields that will be collected by the IMAGE ingest tool on submission (for example your contact details) or created for your sample automatically (for example a unique BioSample ID).
- README.md this document which briefly describes this repository
- docs folder
the main documents to view the rulesets:- MD files: to view on the website
- PDF files : a downloadable version
- rulesets folder
The folder contains current rulesets files. For each ruleset, we have provided three versions of the same ruleset:- Markdown document: the same one as in the docs folder with a different file name
- Tab-delimited text file: a more detailed spreadsheet with additional notes and examples for some fields
- JSON file: for developers who want to programmatically operate on the ruleset content.
- scripts folder
the scripts used to convert among different file formats