Reference Genome
2 properties
The reference assembly a track is defined against. Every
genomic annotation is expressed relative to a reference assembly, and
properties of that assembly — its
assembly identifier and the
build_sex of the build — are a
distinct axis from what the track's content is
(Interpretation),
how it was processed
(Provenance),
how it is encoded
(Format),
or its structural shape
(Geometry).
This is the 5th ONGA descriptor schema. The build sex carried here is factored
out of compound DataType terms like "male genome reference": the male/female
there qualifies the reference assembly used, not the biological sample.
assembly
The reference assembly identifier the track is defined against (e.g. GRCh38, mm10). A free identifier for now.
build_sex
The sex of the reference genome build (which sex chromosomes the assembly contains). Factored out of compound DataType terms like "male genome reference" / "female genome index". A property of the reference assembly, NOT of the biological sample. Absent means unspecified / sex-neutral combined assembly.
build_sex records the sex of the
reference build (which sex chromosomes the assembly contains), NOT the
biological sample's sex. Sample sex is a biospecimen property
delegated out of ONGA's
content scope to PATO.