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From: openBIS: a flexible framework for managing and analyzing complex data in biology research

Figure 2

Data organization and metadata. Data are organized using entities and relations that are familiar to scientists. To organize metadata, the concepts of experiment, sample and dataset types have been introduced. Structured metadata will be assigned at the respective levels by using Property Types. Property Types are unique and can be reused and allow researchers to provide custom properties (or annotations) to experiments, samples and datasets.

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