BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Missing by design: why genomic metadata must be captured at submission, not recovered from the literature
Soomin Lee, Disha Lodha, Jorge Alvarez-Jarreta
The paper highlights the lack of standardized genomic metadata in plant and metazoan genome assemblies and proposes making ploidy, cultivar, and subgenome structure mandatory metadata fields.
DOI 10.64898/2026.11.03.763936