Substance and Method Metadata
Method Metadata
The term Method is used in QuBAS to refer to the statistical analysis of a specific bioassay. The Method is used as the name under which to group all associated development (Development mode) and Routine analysis files and folders.
The Method name can be updated as required providing the method has not been signed off for Routine Mode use.
To prevent accidental corruption of a Method, only one user can work on a Method at a time.
A Method also has a set of associated information know as Metadata. There are two types of Metadata associated with a Method:
Substance / Sample Metadata (Sample Identifier)
Metadata associated with the biological samples being analysed, such as the name (ID) for the Reference, Test, QC and Control samples.
Method Metadata
Metadata containing other information about the assay being analysed, usually specific to a particular data set such as plate reader serial number, operator ID, cell passage number or incubator temperature.
Users can create as many Method Metadata placeholders as they wish.
QuBAS can read Metadata directly from the imported data file if it is present in the file, or Metadata can be input manually in the Development Room.
System Metadata options have been removed from version 2.0.1 onwards.
Uses of Metadata
All Metadata can be used in searches and in the trending functions. It is possible to trend (within a Method) all the analysis from plate reader x, or performed by operator y, etc.
QuBAS-IA
In interpolation mode, QuBAS can create automatically labelled unknown samples. Auto samples do not have an associated substance metadata placeholder.
