term.definition: Find the MIxS or DarwinCore standard term and definition of a...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s)

View source: R/OmicsMetaData.R

Description

retrieve the MIxS or DarwinCore standard term and definition of a variable.

Usage

1

Arguments

term

a character string. The variable to look for among the MIxS and DarwinCore vocabularies

Details

Standerdizing microbial sequence data, metadata and environmental data can be quite difficult given the plethora of standard terms already in existance. This function returns a definition of any term that is used on the POLAAAR portal at biodiversity.aq.

Value

chracater string printed to the console. The best matching terms and their the definitions.

Author(s)

Maxime Sweetlove CC-0 2019


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