Hi all,
We are in need of volunteers to review our draft assay metadata configuration for the Contextual Fear Conditioning Assay.
Please feel free to take a look and add your feedback in the righthand side of the document. A refresher on Assay Metadata Configurations can be found here.
If you feel more comfortable providing feedback privately, or if you have questions, please reach out to me on here, or at rachel.r.gilbert@nasa.gov. Thanks in advance!
@rachelrgilbert Happy to help with this, but I would love it if I can have some more documentation about how the current document was created.
Hello,
These drafts are primarily created by myself, via literature review. I typically link the most relevant sources in the document for each assay draft, in cell A3. I am not a subject matter expert (SME) on most of these assays, therefore we rely on the scientific community here in the AWG to provide feedback on the draft contents such as terminology, missing parameters, unnecessary parameters, etc. I should note that we have separate metadata templates to capture sample-level information, such as subject and sample background/treatments/independent variables.
I put together this document a while back explaining what these assay metadata drafts are and how to provide feedback on them. Once we get feedback from at least 3 SMEs, then the draft is turned into a configuration in our repo, where it can be used to collect metadata for the studies we host at OSDR. These assay configurations can be modified at any time as well, if we receive feedback later about changes that should be made, so please feel free to also take a look at any of the configs in this list, not just those at the bottom that are not yet in our system.
We also have FAQs and tutorials in the ‘Help’ section at the top right of the OSDR site, which explains a bit more about the overall submission process, if you are curious about how these fit into the larger context.
If you have any questions though, I am happy to explain as best as I can!
Rachel