Administrative data about the experiments and personnel involved. A person responsible for conducting an experiment Name of the person conducting an experiment. Affiliation of the person conducting an experiment. Position of the person conducting an experiment. Telephone number of the person conducting an experiment. E-mail address of the person conducting an experiment. Additional information about the person An identifier for the person conducting an experiment. A lab at which experiments can be performed The name of the lab. Telephone number of the person conducting an experiment. E-mail address for the lab. An identifier for the person conducting an experiment. A global method upon which an experiment protocol is based (e.g. metabolic footprinting for sample preparation, GCMS for analysis, GP for data mining, ...) The name used for the particular method (e.g. Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry). A short description of the method. A particular software package The name used for the particular software The name of the manufacturer of the software The version of the software The type of licence (single or multiple user, open source, ...) User(s) that holds the licence The key code used to activate the software The licence expiry date The platforms on which the software runs Operative system. The location of the installation files A reference to the methodology implemented by the software A particular analytical instrument (as an instance, not as a type!) The name used for the particular instrument The name of the instrument's manufacturer The model of the instrument The serial number of the instrument A description of the maintenance history for the instrument Specification of an experimental setup used to perform a series of experiments Specification of an experimental setup used to perform a series of experiments An identifier for the experiment protocol. A reference to a method upon which the protocol is based (e.g. metabolic footprinting, GCMS, GP, ...) Specification of a single experiment Specification of an experiment. The name used to describe the particular experiment. The date on which the experiment started. The time at which the experiment started. The date on which the experiment ended. The time at which the experiment ended. An identifier for the experiment. A series of related experiments (of the same type, e.g. a series of growth experiments) A series of related experiments. There will be an ExperimentSet entity for each series of related experiments. The name used to describe the particular series of experiments. Description of the goals and methods used in the particular series of experiments. An identifier for the series of experiments A set of experiments that links growth, sample preparation and analytical experiments into a set of wet experiments A series of related experiments. There will be an ExperimentSet entity for each series of related experiments. The name used to describe the particular series of experiments. Description of the goals and methods used in the particular series of experiments. An identifier for the set of wet experiments A reference to a series of growth experiments A reference to a series of sample preparation experiments A reference to a series of analytical experiments Additional comments. name of the institution, allowing department values level, building, street or PO Box street Type of the experiments in the set: G (growth), SP (sample prepara-tion), A (analysis) or DM (data mining). growth sample preparation analysis data mining