Bio Entity

Sphinx allows you to define a Bio Entity to track special kinds of data. Bio Entities can be used to track samples, sequences, and other types of components.

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Register Entities

You can register new Bio Entities from the Bio Entity Library. By contacting support you can also enable an integration to pull Bio Entitys from your ELN/LIMS.

Analysis Cell

The available Bio Entities are:

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acid Structure
  • Cell Line
  • Chemical
  • Control
  • DNA Sequence
  • RNA Sequence
  • Custom Entity
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Upload Bio Entity List

To create a Bio Entity, you must first register it. You can enter your the information in a file formatted like the example below.

1entity_id, sequence, batch_id
2A1234, MSRWARLTGTASPA, 5739
3A4567, MSRWARLTGTASPD, 5740

The entity_id and sequence are required in the file and batch_id is optional.

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Link Bio Entity to Dataset

In the schema for a Dataset, you can select a column to match to an existing Bio Entity. This allows your Bio Entity data to be shown and used in an Analysis that uses the Dataset.