Subjects provides a comprehensive description of your animal subjects using a set of standard fields. It offers flexibility through a rich text description field, extra fields, and tags. Additionally, the modular construction of Actions, Subject State Changes, and Subject Logs allows for versatile descriptions of procedures and other activities performed on your subject.
Subject module data:
- Actions: Surgical procedures and other actions performed on the subject, e.g. silicon probe implantations, virus injections, and optic fiber implants.
- Subject State Changes: Any state change performed on the subject, e.g. brain perfusion, lesion, creation of brain slices.
- Subject Logs: Repetitive logs for your subject, e.g. weighing logs, food and water deprivation logs, and housing logs.
Two-Part submission form
The submission form consists of two parts. First, you fill in the required fields. Once you click "Create and continue," the subject entry is created, and you can continue editing it on the second part of the form, which contains all fields. The second part has autosave and will automatically save your changes.
Subject fields:
- Name: The subject name must be unique across BrainSTEM (required).
- Projects: You can only select projects for which you have change-permissions. If the project list is empty, you must create a new one first on the project page(required).
- Sex: Sex of the animal (required).
- Species & Strain: The species and strain of the animal subject. If either is missing, you can submit them for approval on the Species and Strain pages (required).
- Description: A text description of the subject.
- Birth and Death Dates: Birth date and death date of the animal subject.
- Tags: Tags for the subject. Tags are useful for organizational purposes, allowing you to quickly label a subject and use them as filters. Tags are shared among users
- Extra Fields: Allows you to add additional fields to the project. The values can be strings or numeric values.
Permissions
The subject inherits permissions from the projects associated with it. The relationships in actions, subject state change, and subject logs also depend on the selected projects. For more information on permissions, please visit the permissions page.
Subject API Access
The API allows for programmable access to subjects, enabling you to read, edit, and delete subjects through the API. For details about the subject's API fields and data structure, refer to the API Documentation of the Subject API endpoint.
