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

Table 1

TSV created by the experimental design portlet (see Figure 4; excerpt) showing different metadata relevant to the experiment. Empty columns can be filled or additional columns added by the user before reupload (e.g., external identifiers) or the existing information edited.

Identifier	Sample type	Parent	Q_Primary_Tissue	Q_NCBI_Organism	Q_SAMPLE_TYPE	Q_EXTERNALDB_ID	XML_FACTORS
QMELAENTITY-1	Q_BIOLOGICAL_ENTITY			9031			Phenotype: black
QMELAENTITY-2	Q_BIOLOGICAL_ENTITY			9031			Phenotype: yellow
QMELA001AK	Q_BIOLOGICAL_SAMPLE	QMELAENTITY-1	Skin				Phenotype: black; growth medium: control
QMELA002B3	Q_BIOLOGICAL_SAMPLE	QMELAENTITY-1	Skin				Phenotype: black; growth medium: tyrosin-
QMELA003CK	Q_BIOLOGICAL_SAMPLE	QMELAENTITY-2	Skin				Phenotype: yellow; growth medium: control
QMELA004D3	Q_BIOLOGICAL_SAMPLE	QMELAENTITY-2	Skin				Phenotype: yellow; growth medium: tyrosin-
QMELA005AI	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA001AK			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: black; growth medium: control
QMELA006AQ	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA001AK			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: black; growth medium: control
QMELA007B9	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA002B3			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: black; growth medium: tyrosin-
QMELA008BH	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA002B3			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: black; growth medium: tyrosin-
QMELA009C0	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA003CK			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: yellow; growth medium: control
QMELA010C3	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA003CK			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: yellow; growth medium: control
QMELA011DK	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA004D3			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: yellow; growth medium: tyrosin-
QMELA012DS	Q_TEST_SAMPLE	QMELA004D3			Smallmolecules		Phenotype: yellow; growth medium: tyrosin-