diff --git a/docs/src/content/docs/reference/helm-chart-config.mdx b/docs/src/content/docs/reference/helm-chart-config.mdx index 21d0e6545..2d53f374d 100644 --- a/docs/src/content/docs/reference/helm-chart-config.mdx +++ b/docs/src/content/docs/reference/helm-chart-config.mdx @@ -544,6 +544,9 @@ Each organism object has the following fields: For each version of an accession, the `earliestReleaseDate` is calculated as the earliest date of the internal release date, the dates in the configured `externalFields` and the value from the previous version of the accession (if there is one). + This can be used when having a mix of sequences imported from other databases, as well as sequences + released first in this Loculus instance, to have a field that shows the earliest release date regardless + of where the sequence was first released.