created by Tiffany_at_Broad
on 2017-10-16
An attribute represents additional metadata/features/qualities of an entity. In FireCloud these entities can be workspaces, [participants](https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/documentation/article?id=9770 “participants”), [samples](https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/documentation/article?id=9771 “samples”), [pairs](https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/documentation/article?id=9772 “pairs”), or “sets.”
For example, attributes of these participants are disease, gender, age, and clinical_xml, but not participant_id because that is the entity.
Updated on 2017-10-16