Metadata Reporting Standards
Contibutors
Contributors are the individuals who contributed work toward executing the assay and generating the dataset.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35079/HBM854.FKSW.462
Published: September 15, 2026
Schema
* Required
| Attribute | Type | Description | Allowable Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| First name * | First name | ||
| Last name * | Last name | ||
| Middle name or initial | Middle name or initial. Leave blank if not applicable | ||
| Display name * | Name for display | ||
| Affiliation * | Institutional affiliation | ||
| ORCID ID * | ORCID ID of contributor. Example: 0000-0002-8928-741X | ||
| Email address for the individual | |||
| Is contact? * | Is this individual a contact for DOI purposes? | Yes No |
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| Is principal investigator? * | Is this individual a principal investigator responsible for the data? | Yes No |
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| Is operator? * | Is this person responsible for executing the assay(s) in whole or part? If more than one person is responsible for running the assay(s), then each operator should be listed separately in the contributors file. | Yes No |
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| 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 |
This standard does not include structural metadata.
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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
Reuse
This standard may be reused, expanded, or referenced by external repositories. It represents version 2.0 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.
Latest Version Harmonized Version
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 |
