Metadata Reporting Standards

Antibodies

An antibody test detects and measures the presence of specific antibodies (immunoglobulins) in a bodily fluid sample, typically blood or serum. Antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system in response to exposure to a specific antigen, and their presence or concentration indicates prior exposure, active immune response, or autoimmune activity.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35079/HBM965.PTTW.982

Published: September 15, 2026

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Attribute Type Description Allowable Values
Channel ID * Structure of the identifier depends on the acquisition system. Whenever possible this should exactly match the channel ID in the OME TIFF file. For example the channel ID in an OME TIFF might be something like “Channel:0:13” which would then be the value entered here.  
HGNC symbol * Gene symbol approved by HGNC (https://www.genenames.org/) for target gene. Example: ID2B  
Antibody RRID * The RRID is a unique antibody identifier that comes from the Antibody Registry (https://antibodyregistry.org). If needed, more info available here: https://www.antibodyregistry.org/faq. Example: AB_10002075  
Uniprot accession number * A unique identifier for the target protein in the UniProt database (https://www.uniprot.org). Example: Q9NNX6  
Lot number The lot number is specific to the vendor. Example: Abcam lot number is GR3238979-1  
Dilution factor Dillution factor is a whole number. Ratio of stock antibody in the experimental solution, with numerator of 1 assumed. e.g. for a 1:200 (1/200) dilution, the dilution factor would be 200.  
Antibody concentration value The concentration value of the antibody preparation. Leave blank if not applicable.  
Antibody concentration unit The concentration units of the antibody preparation. Leave blank if not applicable. ug/ml
Conjugated cat number An antibody may be conjugated to a fluorescent tag or a metal tag for detection. Conjugated antibodies may be purchased from commercial providers. Leave blank if not applicable.  
Conjugated tag    
Metadata schema ID * The string that serves as the definitive identifier for the metadata schema version and is readily interpretable by computers for data validation and processing. Example: 22bc762a-5020-419d-b170-24253ed9e8d9  
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Citation

Fisher SA, Hardi J, Morgan R, Nordgren E, Kant PM, Honick B, Rosario J, O'Connor MJ, Turner ML, DCWG Members, Gehlenborg N, Blood PD, Silverstein JC, Musen MA. 2026. The HuBMAP Framework for Advancing Data FAIRness. submitted. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.01.728946


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This standard may be reused, expanded, or referenced by external repositories. It represents version 3.0 of the metadata schema. If you are uploading data, the latest version is available at the "Latest Version" link below. If you are querying or using HuBMAP or SenNet metadata, a harmonized view of the metadata specification is available at the "Harmonized Version" link below.


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Contributors

Below is the information for the individuals who contributed to the HuBMAP and SenNet metadata reporting standards.

For questions about this standard, email HuBMAP Helpdesk. You can alternatively reach out to the individuals listed below, either via the email address listed in the table or via contact information provided on their ORCID profile page.

Name Affiliation Contact ORCID
Stephen A Fisher University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA safisher@upenn.edu 0000-0001-8034-7685
Josef Hardi Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA johardi@stanford.edu 0000-0002-2533-6681
Richard Morgan University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA rsm66@pitt.edu 0009-0003-1800-8545
Mark A Musen Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA musen@stanford.edu 0000-0003-3325-793X
Jonathan C Silverstein University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA j.c.s@pitt.edu 0000-0002-9252-6039
Erik Nordgren University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0002-5024-0278
Peter M Kant University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Currently - Otsuka Precision Health, Princeton, NJ, USA   0009-0002-6510-5041
Brendan John Honick Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA   0000-0001-6128-9854
Martin J O’Connor Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA   0000-0002-2256-2421
Jean G Rosario University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0002-6116-5058
Nils Gehlenborg Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA   0000-0003-0327-8297
Philip D Blood Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA   0000-0002-9129-1223
Kyung Jin Ahn Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0000-0002-4184-482X
Christopher R Anderton Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA   0000-0002-6170-1033
Shovik Bandyopadhyay Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA   0000-0003-3919-3914
Kenneth C Bedi University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0003-3588-9324
Maigan Brusko University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA   0000-0002-4331-2202
Martha Campbell-Thompson University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA   0000-0001-6878-1235
James Carson The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA   0000-0001-9009-5645
Chase M Carver Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA   0000-0003-4002-2418
Jing Chen University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA   0000-0001-8008-8062
Anthony M Corbett University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA   0000-0001-9545-0853
Alexandra E Cuaycal University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA   0000-0002-9060-6326
Penny Cuda Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA   0009-0002-6547-2650
Dinh Diep University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; Currently - Altos Labs, San Diego, CA, USA   0000-0001-6057-4119
Sergii Domanskyi The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA   0000-0002-6847-6019
Sean Donahue Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA   0000-0002-4072-2046
Michael P Duffy University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0001-5325-3683
Michael T Eadon Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA   0000-0003-3066-2876
Jean Fan Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA   0000-0002-0212-5451
Melissa A Farrow Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA   0000-0002-1602-2082
Kathleen M Fisch University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA   0000-0002-0117-7444
William F Flynn The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA   0000-0001-6533-0340
James M Fulcher Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA   0000-0001-9033-3623
Soumya Ghose GE HealthCare, Niskayuna, NY, USA   0000-0002-2730-1482
Fiona Ginty GE HealthCare, Niskayuna, NY, USA   0000-0001-6638-683X
Joana P Gonçalves Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands   0000-0001-6072-9627
Yongqun He University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA   0000-0001-9189-9661
Po Hu Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0000-0003-2422-1652
Sanjay Jain Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA   0000-0003-2804-127X
Thomas V Karathanos Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA   0000-0003-1754-3872
Madhurima Kaushal Washington University School of Medicine   0000-0003-2760-0586
Angela RS Kruse Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Currently - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA   0000-0001-8776-2769
Yumi Kwon Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA   0000-0003-0523-6197
Blue B Lake University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Currently - Altos Labs, San Diego, CA, USA   0000-0002-8637-9044
Roy Lardenoije Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands   0000-0002-9026-7870
Shin Lin Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA   0000-0003-0118-0413
Yiing Lin Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA   0000-0002-0317-7608
Scott A Lindsay University of California, San Diego, CA, USA   0000-0002-2929-7755
Peiran Lu Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0009-0001-5096-3046
Clayton Mathews University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA   0000-0002-8817-6355
Elizabeth McDonough GE HealthCare, Niskayuna, NY, USA   0000-0001-7524-8260
Ricardo Melo Ferreira Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA   0000-0003-2063-9744
Emma M Monte Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA   0000-0003-2566-1967
Kathleen O’Neill University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0003-1980-6840
Minxing Pang University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0001-5208-5972
Mana Parast University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA   0000-0001-5963-2246
Liming Pei Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0000-0002-1924-0333
Samuel Peters University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA   0000-0003-1479-8087
Ajay Pillai National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA   0000-0002-9789-7189
Gloria Pryhuber University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA   0000-0002-9185-3994
Ling Qin University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA   0000-0002-2582-0078
Presha Rajbhandari Columbia University, NYC, NY, USA   0000-0003-2184-7238
Matthew M Ruffalo Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA   0000-0003-2222-6169
Pinaki Sarder University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA   0000-0003-2450-5233
Diane C Saunders Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA   0000-0002-8849-6746
Kevin Schneider Buck Institute, Novato, CA, USA   0009-0001-8046-0167
Lingyan Shi University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA   0000-0003-1373-3206
Santhosh Sivajothi The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA   0000-0002-8854-4517
David Smith Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0000-0001-7858-3785
Jeff M Spraggins Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA   0000-0001-9198-5498
Valentina Stanley University of California, San Diego, CA, USA   0000-0002-2212-7796
Kai Tan Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0000-0002-9104-5567
Anusha Thadi Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA   0000-0002-1271-0398
Hua Tian Columbia University Medical Center, NYC, NY, USA   0000-0002-3598-0219
Morgan L Turner Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA   0000-0002-1512-9742
Ioannis S Vlachos Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA, USA   0000-0002-8849-808X
Seth Winfree University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; Currently - QCDx Inc, Farmington, CT, USA    
Pei-Hsun Wu Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA   0000-0002-7371-2960
Kevin J Zemaitis Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA   0000-0002-3524-9776
Mowei Zhou Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA; Currently - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China   0000-0003-3575-3224
Chenchen Zhu Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA   0000-0003-2165-9456