Prepare your metadata based on the latest metadata schema using one of the template files below. See the instructions in the Metadata Validation Workflow document for more information on preparing and validating your metadata.tsv file prior to submission.

Related files:

• 📝 Excel template: For metadata entry.
• 📝 TSV template: Alternative for metadata entry.

Metadata schema

Version 2 (use this one)

Directory schemas

Version 2.2 (use this one)

pattern	required?	description
extras\/.*	✓	Folder for general lab-specific files related to the dataset. [Exists in all assays]
data\/.* (example: data/file1.ext)	✓	Folder for supplementary data files for the publication. All files referenced by the Vitessce visualization configurations in the vignettes must be included in this directory.
vignettes\/.*	✓	Subdirectory containing Vitessce visualization files and a description of those files.
vignettes\/vignette_\d+\/[^\/]+\.json$ (example: vignettes/vignette_01/file1.json)		Vitessce visualization configuration files. One or more visualization configurations can be provided per vignette.
vignettes\/vignette_\d+\/description\.md$ (example: vignettes/vignette_02/description.md)		Description of the vignette and titles for the visualization configuration files.

Version 2.1

pattern	required?	description
extras\/.*	✓	Folder for general lab-specific files related to the dataset. [Exists in all assays]
data\/.+ (example: data/file1.ext)	✓	Supplementary data files for the publication. All files referenced by the Vitessce visualization configurations in the vignettes must be included in this directory.
vignettes\/.*	✓	Subdirectory containing Vitessce visualization files and a description of those files.
vignettes\/vignette_\d+\/[^\/]+\.json$ (example: vignettes/vignette_01/file1.json)		Vitessce visualization configuration files. One or more visualization configurations can be provided per vignette.
vignettes\/vignette_\d+\/description\.md$ (example: vignettes/vignette_02/description.md)		Description of the vignette and titles for the visualization configuration files.

Version 2.0

pattern	required?	description
extras\/.*	✓	Folder for general lab-specific files related to the dataset. [Exists in all assays]
data\/.+ (example: data/file1.ext)	✓	Supplementary data files for the publication. All files referenced by the Vitessce visualization configurations in the vignettes must be included in this directory.
vignettes\/.*	✓	Subdirectory containing Vitessce visualization files and a description of those files.
vignettes\/vignette_\d+\/[^\/]+\.json (example: vignettes/vignette_01/file1.json)		Vitessce visualization configuration files. One or more visualization configurations can be provided per vignette.
vignettes\/vignette_\d+\/description\.md (example: vignettes/vignette_02/description.md)		Description of the vignette and titles for the visualization configuration files.