Intuitive Web-Based Experimental Design for High-Throughput Biomedical Data

Figure 3

Simplified schema of the experimental design wizard’s steps: In a first context step, users can choose to create a completely new experiment and to add a sample extraction experiment or just measurements to existing experiments in the system. Depending on context, sample data is either taken from the system or newly created from user input concerning the amount of replicates, species, and other metadata. After each step, samples can be deselected in a negative selection step. After selection of technology type and technical replicates the whole sample hierarchy can be downloaded in a TSV including metadata and registered to the database.