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[Johan Ivar Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andres,

Welcome to the list! From what I understand, you want to associate a given strain, such as MK13013 or the longer version Ebola virus/H.sapiens-wt/SLE/2015/Makona-1309_C2_MK13013, with a clinical case? That should be possible in several ways, either as a free text data element, an option set, or as metadata attribute

Take a look at some of the options in the manual:
Metadata attributes: https://docs.dhis2.org/master/en/user/html/manage_attribute.html#about_attribute
Option sets: https://docs.dhis2.org/master/en/user/html/manage_option_set.html

If you want more of the meta-data such as the complete sequence, it should in theory be possible, but a link to the ncbi would perhaps be the best.

Regards,
Johan Ivar Sæbø

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dhis2-users [mailto:dhis2-users-
>bounces+johansa=ifi.uio.no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andres
>Colubri
>Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 3:40 PM
>To: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Dhis2-users] storing/linking sequence metadata in DHIS2
>
>I'm new to this mailing list, and to DHIS2 in general, so would like to start by
>saying hi to everyone!
>
>
>I'm looking to create an DHIS2-based app that displays viral sequencing
>information on top of clinical cases (something along the lines of NextStrain
><http://www.nextstrain.org/ebola?c=division&r=division> ). Is this possible?
>Would I need to modify the underlying DataElement in dhis2-core to support
>genetic metadata? Or would it be enough to add a reference to sequences
>stored elsewhere, for example in GenBank?
>
>Best,
>
>Andres