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Table 1 Variable definition file

From: Towards large-scale sample annotation in gene expression repositories

Colon Cancer:Patient:*age

Colon Cancer:Sample:*genetically modified

Colon Cancer:Sample:*tumor size

Colon Cancer:Essential:tissue, normal, benign, cancerous, non-colon

  1. This example shows the definition of a small annotation form Colon Cancer with the two groups Patient and Sample that contain the variables age, genetically modified and tumor size which reference previously defined variables and one new variable tissue with the predefined choices normal, benign, cancerous and non-colon.
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BMC Bioinformatics

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