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ISA tools API

The open source ISA metadata tracking tools help to manage an increasingly diverse set of life science, environmental and biomedical experiments that employing one or a combination of technologies.

Built around the ‘Investigation’ (the project context), Study’ (a unit of research) and ‘Assay’ (analytical measurement) general-purpose Tabular format, the ISA tools helps you to provide rich description of the experimental metadata (i.e. sample characteristics, technology and measurement types, sample-to-data relationships) so that the resulting data and discoveries are reproducible and reusable.

To find out more about ISA, see https://isa-tools.org/

To find out who's using ISA and about the ISA development and user community, see www.isacommons.org

The ISA API aims to provide you, the developer, with a set of tools to help you easily and quickly build your own ISA objects, validate, and convert between serializations of ISA-formatted datasets and other formats/schemas (e.g. SRA schemas). The ISA API is published on PyPI as the isatools package.

isatools currently supports Python 3.6+.

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Authors: The ISA team.

License: This code is licensed under the CPAL License.

Repository: https://github.com/ISA-tools/isa-api

ISA team email: [email protected]

ISA discussion group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/isaforum

Github issue tracker: https://github.com/ISA-tools/isa-api/issues

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Using the ISA-API

The documentation to install and use the ISA-API (v0.12 and above) can be found here.

For the previous versions (up to v0.11) check the documentation here.

Contributing

The ISA-API is still in development. We would be very happy to receive any help and contributions (testing, feature requests, pull requests). Please feel free to contact our development team at [email protected], or ask a question, report a bug or file a feature request in the Github issue tracker at https://github.com/ISA-tools/isa-api/issues.