Improving Metadata Quality
Do you rely on high-quality metadata from NCBI’s BioSample database? BioSample is home to metadata associated with the biological source materials used to generate raw reads, sequences, and other data submitted to NCBI. We are improving our submission process to ensure we provide you with more complete and robust information.
Attention submitters!
To improve metadata quality, we are introducing new submission validation steps and providing improved help documentation.
- A valid organism name will now be required in the organism field.
- An organism’s strain-level name will undergo validation checking.
- Improved support for submitters with new help documentation:
These efforts will improve metadata quality by encouraging you to include additional information and fix errors during the submission process.
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