BIGSdb curator's guide
Databases can be modified by curators and admins. The curator role can be refined such that only some tasks are allowed to be performed by an individual, in which case not all options shown in the following links will necessarily be available. See 'setting curator permissions and access controls' in the administrator's guide for more details.
There are two types of BIGSdb database: one is for sequence/allele definitions and the other is for isolate data.
Sequence definition databases
Sequence definition databases contain unique sequences for any number of locidefined by allele numbers. They can also hold scheme profile definitions, i.e. unique combinations of alleles at specific loci defined by a primary key field.
- Adding new allele sequence definitions
- Updating and deleting allele sequence definitions
- Adding new scheme profile definitions
- Updating and deleting scheme profile definitions
Isolate databases
Isolate databases hold isolate provenance information linked to sequence data. These sequences can be tagged with locus details and allele designations can be defined for each isolate.
- Adding isolate records
- Updating or deleting single isolate records
- Batch updating of multiple records
- Deleting multiple records
- Setting and modifying isolate allele designations
- Uploading sequence contigs linked to isolate records
- Automated sequence tagging
- Setting locus genome positions
- Grouping isolates by project