Publically available datasets with the sample information provided in .soft and .miniml file formats. This script is currently being created specific to one such dataset - Mammals Methylation Consortium
Parses the .soft file into a csv sample_sheet containing information about each entry. Also stores that information as a list of dictionaries
Includes functions .soft file into a list of lines and creates a .pkl file to reload lines if needed.
Extremely specific for this particular dataset. In the function parse_txt_file add line numbers to get more columns.
usage: read_series_data.py [-h] [-x] [-c] input_file
script to extract required information from the sample_matrix file
positional arguments:
input_file Path to the input file
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-x, --xlsx creates excel file
-c, --csv creates csv file```