support metadata files
mccalluc opened this issue · 2 comments
Pretty clear from talking with core that metadata should be supplied as standalone files: first column matches the sample IDs from the data (ie, column headers in the original), successive columns are metadata fields.
TODO: Confirm that the columns in the original are now rows. Or we could allow both: Just need to know what kind of data we will be getting. (Also: it sounds like it makes sense to make a distinction between row metadata and col metadata? Maybe there's even a better name for row metadata to avoid confusion?)
Shannan:
Yes, the format of our metadata files is typically samples in the first column, followed by metadata in subsequent columns.
A first pass has been done here: there's a new command line argument, and PCA points can be colored. Going to close this high-level issue, and more granular issues can be opened as we clarify requirements.