Metadata
When and how are metadata assigned?
- During Upload on new datasets, either autodetected (default) or directly assigned by the user
- With the Edit Attributes functions on existing datasets, either autodetected or directly assigned by the user
- By upstream tools based on the those tool's input metadata assignments (inherited) or as new defined outputs types
Changing or updating dataset metadata
Click on the dataset's pencil icon to reach the Edit Attributes forms in the center panel to change or update metadata. Metadata attributes can include: database (dbkey, genome, transcriptome, custom genome), datatype (including compression format, e.g. gzipped versus not), column assignments (chrom, start, end, and more), row assignments (specify comments lines), permissions, and others.