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AnalysisMethod

Description

An Analysis Method captures the workflow steps that were performed to analyze data obtained from an Experiment.

Fields

name

description : A name identifying this Analysis Method.
required : True
data type : string

description

description : Description of an entity.
required : True
data type : string

type

description : The type of an entity. Note: Not to be confused with rdf:type.
required : True
data type : string

workflow_name

description : The workflow name.
required : True
data type : string

workflow_version

description : The workflow version.
required : False
data type : string

workflow_repository

description : The workflow repository (e.g., the URL).
required : True
data type : string

workflow_doi

description : A digital object identifier for the workflow. Can be a publication or the workflow commit that was used for the Analysis.
required : True
data type : string

workflow_tasks

description : Tasks performed by the workflow
required : False
data type : string

parameters

description : Key/value pairs where key corresponds to a parameter name and value corresponds to a parameter value (e.g., 'aligner' = 'star_salmon', 'hisat2_build_memory' = '200.GB', 'split_fastq' = 50000000).
required : False
data type : Attribute

software_versions

description : key/value pairs where key corresponds to a software name and value corresponds to a version descriptor (e.g., salmon = '1.3.0', trim-galore = '0.6.6', bedtools = '2.29.2').
required : False
data type : Attribute

reference_name

description : Name or identifier of the reference, e.g., "hg38", "dbSNP"
required : False
data type : string

reference_type

description : Type of reference data used
required : False
data type : Controlled Vocabulary

Permissible Values
Permissible Values Description
GENOME Reference genome sequence
SNP SNP reference database
INDEL Indel reference set
TRANSCRIPTOME Transcript sequences
HAPLOTYPE Haplotype panels
VCF Variant call format reference
BED BED-formatted genomic regions
REPEATMASKER RepeatMasker annotations
OTHER Other types of references

reference_source

description : Source or provider of the reference, e.g., "UCSC", "Ensembl"
required : False
data type : string

description : URL to the reference
required : False
data type : string

reference_version

description : Version or release identifier of the reference data
required : False
data type : string

attributes

description : Key/value pairs corresponding to an entity.
required : False
data type : Attribute

alias

description : The alias for an entity at the time of submission.
required : True
data type : string