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Gene / DNA Sequence - Field Reference ​

The fields of the Gene / DNA Sequence record type as documented for the Biosafety Clearing-House. In API calls the record type is selected with the schema value dnaSequence.

TitleFieldMandatoryTypeExample
headerHeader{ "identifier": "068C83BA-995F-08C3-50CE-AD43545B3EB5", "schema": "dnaSequence", "languages": ["en"] }
Name of genetic elementnameTruelstring{"en":"Test Name"}
Alternate genetic element name(s) (synonym(s))synonymNameslstring[][{"en":"Test Information"}]
AbbreviationabbreviationTruelstring{"en":"Test Abbreviation"}
CategoryfamilyTrueTerm{"identifier":"1ECB698D-3F3D-41BC-BEBD-DD5C734BCDCF"}
Is the genetic element a synthetic molecule?isSyntheticTrueBooleantrue
Donor organism(s)donorOrganismsReference[][{"identifier":"50D6389D-5F07-2343-ABB1-E7CE26AFADCA@5"}]
Point of collection or acquisition of the donor organism(s)donorOrganismCollectionPointlstring{"en":"<div><!--block-->Test Information</div>"}
Geographic coordinatesgisFilesLink[][{"url":"https://www.google.com","name":"Google","language":"en"}]
Name of the protein expressed by the coding sequenceproteinNamelstring{"en":"Test Information"}
Biological function of the proteinbiologicalFunctionlstring{"en":"Test Information"}
Related trait(s) or use(s) in biotechnologytraitsTerm[][{"identifier":"5B6177DD-5E5E-434E-8CB7-D63D67D5EBED","customValue":{"en":"Test Information"}},{"identifier":"81799D15-669E-4346-9AEC-6834893D2BE4"}]
Any other relevant informationrelevantInformationlstring{"en":"<div><!--block-->Test Information</div>"}
Any other relevant documentsrelevantDocumentsLink[][{"url":"https://www.google.com","name":"Google","language":"en"}]