bonitalam/ihec-ecosystems

This repo is for code and documentation associated with the ihec-ecosystems working group

ihec-ecosystems

This repository contains code and documentation associated with the IHEC Ecosystems working group.

Standards

Metadata Specification

IHEC members and those who wish their metadata to participate in IHEC studies need to comply with certain metadata standards. Description of the standards are available here:

• IHEC Metadata Specification (version 1.0)
• IHEC Metadata Specification (version 2.0)

For all new submissions we highly recommened to comply with the most recent specification.

Reference Builds and Gene Annotations

Documentation on adopted standards is available here.

Minimum required track types

A description of the public access (processed) data files that should be provided by each group is available here.

IHEC Data Hubs

IHEC Data Hub are the documents that IHEC members produce to exchange metadata. These JSON-formatted documents are mostly used to submit data to the IHEC Data Portal. The JSON Schema, a validator and a converter to UCSC Genome Browser track hub documents are available here.

Metadata Validation and Versioning

For metadata versioning/validation submodule, see available here.

Updating this repo

Please follow the standard procedures.