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Information about the provenance of a specific dataset, which can include various items ranging from the organism on which the data was originally obtained to the laboratory that produced them and the instruments used. It is inserted in databases to help users to assess the quality, reliability, and significance of data found online (Evans and Foster 2011; Field et al. 2009; Linkert et al. 2010).
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Leonelli, S. (2013). Metadata. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_1066
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