Load Matched Peak List

This operation loads a several matched peak list files (.csv) into one several Unlabeled Matched Peak List elements or into an Labeled Matched Peak List Set, depending on the experiment type.

Usage

You can execute this operation by clicking the button or following the menu File/Load Data/Matched Peak List.

A dialog will appear allowing you to choose the experiment type (Labeled or Unlabeled).

Load Matched Peak List Dialog

Labeled experiment

If you choose Labeled, the next dialog will allow you to choose the folders containing the samples of your experiment.

Load Matched Peak List Dialog - Labeled

The operation loads one Labeled Matched Peak List Set containing one Labeled Peak List element for each label.
It is important that to note that you must add one folder per label in your experiment. At the same time, each label folder, must contain one folder per sample. And finally, the sample folders contain the peak list files.
For example, imagine that you have two labels: CONDITION-A and CONDITION-B. For each label you have three samples and for each sample you have three peak list. You must have the following organization in your file system:

/CONDITION-A
	/SAMPLE-A.1
		/SAMPLE-A.1.1.csv
		/SAMPLE-A.1.2.csv
		/SAMPLE-A.1.3.csv
	/SAMPLE-A.2
		/SAMPLE-A.2.1.csv
		/SAMPLE-A.2.2.csv
		/SAMPLE-A.2.3.csv
	/SAMPLE-A.3
		/SAMPLE-A.3.1.csv
		/SAMPLE-A.3.2.csv
		/SAMPLE-A.3.3.csv
/CONDITION-B
	/SAMPLE-B.1
		/SAMPLE-B.1.1.csv
		/SAMPLE-B.1.2.csv
		/SAMPLE-B.1.3.csv
	/SAMPLE-B.2
		/SAMPLE-B.2.1.csv
		/SAMPLE-B.2.2.csv
		/SAMPLE-B.2.3.csv
	/SAMPLE-B.3
		/SAMPLE-B.3.1.csv
		/SAMPLE-B.3.2.csv
		/SAMPLE-B.3.3.csv

Unlabeled experiment

If you choose Unlabeled, the next dialog will allow you to choose the folder containing the samples of your experiment.

Load Matched Peak List Dialog - Unlabeled

It is important that to note that you must add one folder that contains all the samples in your experiment. The sample folders contain the peak list files.
For example, imagine that you have six samples and for each sample you have three peak lists. You must have the following organization in your file system:

/SAMPLE-1
	/SAMPLE-1.1.csv
	/SAMPLE-1.2.csv
	/SAMPLE-1.3.csv
/SAMPLE-2
	/SAMPLE-2.1.csv
	/SAMPLE-2.2.csv
	/SAMPLE-2.3.csv
/SAMPLE-3
	/SAMPLE-3.1.csv
	/SAMPLE-3.2.csv
	/SAMPLE-3.3.csv
/SAMPLE-4
	/SAMPLE-4.1.csv
	/SAMPLE-4.2.csv
	/SAMPLE-4.3.csv
/SAMPLE-5
	/SAMPLE-5.1.csv
	/SAMPLE-5.2.csv
	/SAMPLE-5.3.csv
/SAMPLE-6
	/SAMPLE-6.1.csv
	/SAMPLE-6.2.csv
	/SAMPLE-6.3.csv