Table 1. Metadata table header.
Available key/value pairs that describe the entire dataset. Organism and source are required but other key/value pairs are optional.
| Key | Description | Example value(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Organism | The genus, species, or other taxonomic description | Listeria monocytogenes |
| Outbreak | Usually the PulseNet outbreak code, but any other descriptive word with no spaces | 1408MLGX6-3WGS |
| PMID | The Pubmed identifier of a related publication | 25789745 |
| Tree | The URL to a newick-formatted tree | http://api.opentreeoflife.org/v2/study/ot_301/tree/tree2.tre |
| Source | A person who can be contacted about this dataset | Cheryl Tarr |
| DataType | Either empirical or simulated | Empirical |
| IntendedUse | Why this dataset might be useful for someone in bioinformatics testing | Epidemiologically and laboratory confirmed outbreak with outgroups |