PavlidisLab / Gemma

Genomics data re-analysis
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Retire Illumina merged platforms and switch directly to generic gene platforms instead #1104

Open arteymix opened 2 months ago

arteymix commented 2 months ago

We use merged platform because adding RNA-Seq data require that the same platform is used for all the samples. This is unnecessary because ultimately these platforms get replaced by a generic expression platform.

It also creates a burden on curators who have to switch to these generic sequencing platform before switching to a generic gene platform.

Given that this step is superfluous, we don't need to check for multi-platform when adding RNA-Seq data, and we should switch directly to the gene platforms.

ppavlidis commented 2 months ago

I agree that this makes more sense than my proposal in #1105, as long as it's always the correct thing to do.