Load Raw Data

This operation loads a several raw files (ie. .mzXML, .mzML or .csv) into one or several Raw Data elements.

Usage

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

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

Load Raw Data Dialog

Labeled experiment

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

Load Raw Data Dialog - Labeled

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 raw 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 raw spectra. You must have the following organization in your file system:

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

Unlabeled experiment

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

Load Raw Data 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 raw files.
For example, imagine that you have six samples and for each sample you have three raw spectra. You must have the following organization in your file system:

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