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Preview BioSample Types and Attributes

Select the package that best describes your samples.

To filter for relevant BioSample packages, enter the full scientific name of the organism of your samples.

  • If your BioSamples are derived from a species not represented in NCBI's Taxonomy database, enter the genus-level name, e.g., Escherichia
  • If your BioSamples are derived from more than one organism, enter the common species, genus, or family, e.g., Enterobacteriaceae
  • If your BioSamples are metagenomic/environmental, or metagenome-assembled genomes (MAG), select the appropriate tab above
  • For more information about organism names, see Organism information.
NCBI packages
GSC MIxS packages for genomes, metagenomes, and marker sequences