The Tab-Delimited Adapter

Purpose:  For loading and saving annotation data in a easy-to-read format.

Extensions:  .xls .tab

Notes:  These files can be directly imported to external spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel.

You must make sure that you are using the same Phenote configuration when loading a file as was used to save it.  For example, if you had "demo" configuration loaded when you saved your data file, then you must have the demo configuration loaded when you try opening your data file.  If, in the meantime, you have changed your configuration, you must change it back.

 

When saving your annotations, the first line of the file will contain the column headings.  These column headings are derived from the field names specified in the configuration file.

 

There is a field called "Pub" which is a free text field.  This will translate to a single column in the file, with the column heading of Pub.

 

There is a field called "Entity" which is an ontology-based field.  This will translate into two columns in the file.  The column headings will take the name, Entity, and follow it with ID and Name, respectively.  In this case, you'd have the column headings "Entity ID" and "Entity Name".  The former will contain the ID of the term from the OBO file, and the latter will contain the TermName from the obo file.  These are both placed in the file as a conveniece to read for the user.

Upon reading the file, only the ID column is used and the "Name" column is skipped over; column headings are thrown out.

You can generate your own tab-delimited files from external applications so long as they follow this format.