Parents and Children relationships
Openbis works with a hierachical data structure.
Openbis objects can be linked to other objects and datasets with N:N relationship.
These links are called "Parent-Child" relationships.
To explain this in more detail:
- DNA was extracted from liver tissue (TISSUE) from an animal (ANIMAL1) and aliquots of the DNA are used in different experiments (VIAL1, VIAL2, VIAL3)
- You write a protocol, and want to keep track of the SAMPLE and CHEMICAL used
- You describe an experiment and you want to keep track of the PROTOCOL, SAMPLES and MICROSCOPE
- You make an experiment in several steps and you want to link each step to the previous one
© Kristian K Ullrich (2024) - ullrich@evolbio.mpg.de