Number of required occurences Description
mipe exactly one
  version exactly one version number of the MIPE format
  pcr one or more one for each PCR product
    id exactly one ID of the PCR product
    modified one or more dates that this record has been modified
    project zero or more project(s) that this record belongs to
    researcher one or more researcher(s) involved in designing/running the PCR
    species one or more species on which the PCR experiment is performed
    design exactly one data pertaining to the design of the PCR
      source exactly one initial sequence on which the PCR primers were designed
        accession/file/seq exactly one reference to the source DNA sequence
        name zero or one e.g. gene-name
        species zero or one species on which the PCR experiment is performed
        type zero or one genomic or cDNA
        remark zero or more
      range zero or one part of the source sequence that will be amplified by the PCR product (in nucleotide positions)
      seq zero or one sequence expected to be replicated (= part of the source sequence)
      primer1 zero or one forward primer
        oligo zero or one internal ID of oligo
        seq zero or one sequence of primer
        tm zero or one melting temperature of primer
      primer2 zero or one reverse primer
        oligo zero or one internal ID of oligo
        seq zero or one sequence of primer
        tm zero or one melting temperature of primer
      profile zero or one PCR profile
        name zero or one name of PCR profile
        predenaturation zero or one predenaturation step
          temp exactly one
          time exactly one
        cycle zero or more data for each cycle
          number exactly one number of cycles
          denaturation exactly one denaturation step
            temp exactly one
            time exactly one
          annealing exactly one annealing step
            temp exactly one
            time exactly one
          elongation exactly one elongation step
          temp exactly one
          time exactly one
        postelongation zero or one postelongation step
        temp exactly one
        time exactly one
      remark zero or more
    use zero or one contains information on the results of a PCR resequencing experiment
      seq exactly one sequence
      revcomp exactly one whether or not this sequence is the reverse complementary of the sequence in the design part
      snp zero or more single-nucleotide polymorphisms
        id exactly one
        pos exactly one position of the SNP on the use sequence
        pos_design zero or one position of the SNP on the design sequence
        pos_source zero or one position of the SNP on the sourcesequence
        amb zero or one ambiguity code of the SNP
        rank zero or one if found by polyphred: rank of the SNP (ranges from 1 to 6)
        assay zero or more SNP genotyping assay
          type exactly one either RFLP or SBE (single-base extension)
          id exactly one
          enzyme zero or one if type was RFLP: restriction enzyme
          oligo zero or one internal ID of oligo
          specific zero or one if type was SBE: sequence of the SBE primer that is specific
          tail zero or one if type was SBE: sequence of optional tail that is non-specific
          strand zero or one if type was SBE: strand that the SBE primer will attach to (relative to the sequence in the use part)
          remark zero or more
        remark zero or more
      sample zero or more if resequenced on different individuals
        id zero or one
        file zero or one ab1-file containing the sequence for this particular individual
        genotype zero or more genotypes for this individual
          snp_id exactly one ID of a SNP as mentioned above
          amb exactly one ambiguity code for that SNP in this individual
          remark zero or more
        remark zero or more
      remark zero or more
    remark zero or more
  remark zero or more
remark zero or more