File format:
The file format for user calculated data comparison is a ASCII text file with tab delimited columns. The column headers are:
Column Header | What to store in each column | Column - Required or Optional |
---|---|---|
Name | the names of entity | Required |
Ratio | The ratio of two samples | optional |
Value | The test value of two samples. Such as P-value or T-test value. | optional |
DIFF | The difference of two samples | optional |
At least one of the value columns must be non-empty. If a value is missing then just leave the space empty. Not all columns have to be presented in a file. You can save the data file from a spreadsheet as a text file with tab delimter. The names in the file must be identical to the ones in the processed data files. No new names should be introduced in these files. A sampling file is as following:
NAME | RATIO |
---|---|
TC43173 | 0.106703 |
TC43184 | 0.0826158 |
TC43191 | -0.341343 |
TC43223 | 0.109437 |
TC43235 | 0.164247 |
TC43245 | -0.0218844 |
File name:
Please name your files using only the following characters “a–z”, “A–Z”, “0–9” and “_”. Connect parts of the name with underscores.