release=caIntegrator 1.2
entrydate=August 31, 2010 |
topic=CaIntegrator Usage |
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The file itself is a tab-delimited text file. The file extension can be anything, though .txt is typically used. The name of each supplemental file has to be unique within a caArray experiment.
Inside the file, each row in the file contains the data from one reporter. Each column in the file must have a unique header name. (i.e you can not give two different columns the same column name.)
There are 2 supported formats:
- SINGLE SAMPLE FORMAT
- MULTIPLE SAMPLE FORMAT
SINGLE SAMPLE FORMAT
The format requirements for the single sample format file are following:
- Minimum of two required columns.
- One column must contain the reporter/probe name.
- One column must contain the value be reported by the reporter.
- The file can have additional columns, though other than reporter/probe name and value mentioned above, the rest will be ignored.
- One SINGLE SAMPLE FORMAT file for each sample in the experiment.
An example of SINGLE SAMPLE FORMAT can be found in the figure below:
MULTIPLE SAMPLE FORMAT
The format requirements for the multiple sample format file are following:
- one column must contain the reporter/probe name.
- each additional columns are the reporter values such that there is one column per sample.
- one MULTIPLE SAMPLE FORMAT file for the whole experiment.
- CAVEAT: Currently the MULTIPLE SAMPLE FORMAT is slower to load than the SINGLE SAMPLE FORMAT for platforms other than Agilent Copy Number. This performance issue is expected to be improved in a future release.
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