Glossary

the storage of information or data for the long-term

collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally (Source: Wikipedia)

an actionable, interoperable, persistent link to any entity (thing: physical, digital, or abstract) (Source: DOI Foundation)

Digital Object Identifier. Designed to be used by humans as well as machines, DOIs identify objects persistently. They allow things to be uniquely identified and accessed reliably. [Source: DOI Foundation]

the description of how information or data is encoded for storage in a computer file

a sequence of characters that identifies an entity which can be either a physical or legal entity, a bioinformatics resource or a concept

compatible or suitable for exchange and use, be it by humans or machines 

A system to manage laboratory operations and sample tracking 

basic information about the data in a structured format

a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms (Source: Wikipedia)