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From: The Risa R/Bioconductor package: integrative data analysis from experimental metadata and back again

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ISA-guided domain specific workflows. A possible workflow for an ISA-Tab augmented experiment design and execution. The experiment is designed with e.g. the ISAcreator to define the samples. The experiment is performed and samples are collected. The sample names are transferred to the machine, e.g. a mass spectrometer (MS), to run the assays. Assays are performed. In the MS example, it often occurs that the MS instrument software allows to copy & paste into its sample table, and creates a report (including MS filenames) that can go into the ISA-Tab assay information. Domain specific R packages, such as xcms for MS, process the raw data. The Risa objects are augmented with the results of the assay and the completed ISA-Tab dataset can be written back to disk.

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