Table 1.

Mapping between MIAPPE and ISA‐Tab sections.

MIAPPE section	ISA‐Tab section	ISA‐Tab section specification
Investigation	Investigation/investigation publications
Study	Study/study design descriptors/study protocols
Person	Investigation contacts/study contacts
Data file	Study	With comment fields
Biological material	Source
Environment	Study protocols	Growth type protocol
Experimental factor	Study Factors
Event	Study protocols	Event type protocols and external Events file
Observation unit	Sample
Sample	Extract/study protocols	Sampling type protocol
Observed variable	Observed variable	In external trait definition file

The table lists the MIAPPE sections with the ISA‐Tab sections holding their fields. MIAPPE‐exclusive fields have been added as comments in the corresponding sections. The detailed mapping can be found in Supporting Information Table S1, and in the MIAPPE repository (https://github.com/MIAPPE/MIAPPE/tree/master/MIAPPE_Checklist‐Data‐Model‐v1.1/MIAPPE_mapping).