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Data describing Sample donor entity

In current version the sample donor entity is aimed to describe human sample donors only.

Definition

Introduced in 2020 (Eklund et al., 2020), the component Sample donor is a person who is a source of either a biological material or a digital representation of a biological entity such as an image.

Attribute table for Sample donor

Attribute CodeAttribute NameAllowed ValuesDescriptionConstraintsCardinality
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-01Sample donor IDCoded StringSample donor ID. Unique ID code of the sample donor within the sample collectionPseudonymised, alphanumeric1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-02SexEnumerated valuesBiological sex of the sample donor. Can be one of the following values: Male, Female, Unknown, Undifferentiated, Not applicable1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-03Dataset typeEnumerated valuesThe data categories from which data are available or can be linked to the sample donor. Can be one or more of the following values: Lifestyle dataset, Environmental dataset, Physiological dataset, Biochemical dataset, Clinical dataset, Psychological dataset, Genomic dataset, Proteomic dataset, Metabolomic dataset, Body (Radiological) image, Whole slide image, Photo image, Genealogical records, Other.0...n
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-04Birth dateyyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssBirth date of the sample donor. Can also be partial, for example, YYYY.ISO-standard 8601. Date of birth is required when Event date (MIABIS-EVENT-02) is used, otherwise partial date, as in birth year, can be used0