Metaseed Hub
- Use it — the hub, signed in with your institutional account
- Run metaseed yourself —
metaseedon PyPI; the hub itself is not published on PyPI and runs from its source - Source — metaseed-hub · metaseed
- The library's documentation — metaseed itself
Metaseed Hub is the hosted, shared version of metaseed. Metaseed helps research teams create, validate and share standardized metadata. It supports domain standards such as MIAPPE, ISA and Darwin Core, and the submission formats of repositories such as ENA, PRIDE and MetaboLights. Each standard becomes a guided form with automated checks and suggestions from controlled vocabularies. Researchers can import public records, export files in the format a repository expects, and compare or combine standards without programming. Metaseed runs in the browser (locally or on the hosted hub), from the command line, from Python, or through an AI assistant.
In the hub, teams create datasets that follow a metadata profile (an established standard or a custom specification), edit them through generated forms, and share them with collaborators.
Installing metaseed
The hub is a hosted service; the metaseed library and command-line tool it is built on can be installed locally.
As a command-line tool, isolated in its own environment (recommended):
uv tool install metaseed
metaseed --help
As a library in a project:
uv add metaseed # in a uv-managed project
pip install metaseed # in any virtual environment
Optional importers and exporters are extras, for example pip install "metaseed[pride]" or uv tool install "metaseed[pride]".
What you can do
- Datasets — create metadata datasets from a profile, edit entities through generated forms, validate against the schema, track versions, and import or export data.
- Collaboration — share a dataset with collaborators as Owner, Editor, or Viewer, and discuss it through threaded comments.
- Spec Builder — design custom metadata specifications: entities, fields, relationships, and validation rules; publish them and fork published specs.
- Explorer — browse a profile's structure and compare two profiles side by side.
- Administration — admin users see aggregated usage statistics.
Using this manual
| Section | Start here if you want to |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | Log in and create your first dataset |
| Datasets | Create, edit, validate, version, and export datasets |
| Collaboration | Share datasets and use comments |
| Spec Builder | Design and publish custom specifications |
| Explorer | Browse and compare profiles |
| Reference | Look up supported profiles and ontology search |
| Administration | Use the admin dashboard |
For deployment, architecture, and HTTP API details, see the Developer section.