Data Entry Procedures
⚛ Entering Pedigree Info
1. Essential info — Initial entry of basic data, REQUIRED: - Birth place (location, farm) - Birth date - Birth Sex - BirthID (assigned at the farm or in the lab) - Other birth time info (presentartion, season, TWorET, etc) 2. Basic info — Add to pedigree when data is available - PreRegID: In intrim ID, formed based on BirthID, BreedAsso, and other info - Dam BirthID (may be from parentage tests) - Sire BirthID (may be from parentage tests) (Parents BirthIDs can be looked up from Intl_ID, PreRegID, or RegID) 3. Additional info — Add when available - RegID: Breed Registration ID; Multiple registers possible - Intl_ID: 1000 Bull Project ID - ISUBPID: ISU Breeding Project ID (aka. 'BLUP ID') - HealthID: "Health" project ID - DummyID:
⚛ Entering Phenotype Info
1. Essential info — Be entered first - Trait/Phenotype definitions (REQUIRED) - Protocols to obtain phenotypes (Currently NOT REQUIRED - will be) - Animal IDs: BirthIDs (REQUIRED) 2. Basic info — Meta info., Not strictly required but better to have - Methods - Date/time (measurement) - other notes 3. Phenotype data — Must present.
Tips
o How to use "Comments" field to enter in-frequent meta data: "Comments" field is a free text space. It's designed to accept multiple and varying kinds of meta data that's easily parsable/retrievable. 1. One piece of meta data be represented by "name":"value" pairs 2. Multiple meta data are separated with semi-column (";") Example: "Data source: ABC Lboratory; Note: this animal might ate something before blood sampling". Note: All text can be in one line.
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