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Modify species as recommended and add examples
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mariehbourget committed Jul 16, 2021
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followed by a list of optional columns describing participants.
Each participant MUST be described by one and only one row.

When different from `homo sapiens`, `participants.tsv` SHOULD include a `species`
column, and the value MUST be the string of the binomial species name from
[NCBI Taxonomy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi).
The RECOMMENDED `species` column SHOULD be a binomial species name from the
[NCBI Taxonomy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi)
(for examples `homo sapiens`, `mus musculus`, `rattus norvegicus`).
For backwards compatibility, if `species` is absent, the participant is assumed to be
`homo sapiens`.

Commonly used *optional* columns in `participants.tsv` files are `age`, `sex`,
`handedness`, `strain`, `strain_rrid` and `diagnosis`. We RECOMMEND to make use
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