Support non-single cell data

[olgabot]

There's been a lot of exciting interest with flotilla here at CSHL #biodata14. One of the issues is that people want to use it, but they don't necessarily have single-cell data. Right now, if some sample is labeled as pooled in the metadata, then it is treated as a pooled sample and plotted as a black dot on the violinplots. But this is confusing because if a user has all pooled samples, they may think that they need to label them all as "pooled", and then their violinplots would be lame and just a bunch of black dots.

@mlovci suggested having a boolean flag in the datapackage.json/Study() object, e.g. is_single_cell_data=True or something, so it's extensible to other data.

What do you think?

[geneyeo]

yup, good idea.

On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Olga Botvinnik wrote:

There's been a lot of exciting interest with flotilla here at CSHL

biodata14. One of the issues is that people want to use it, but

they don't necessarily have single-cell data. Right now, if some
sample is labeled as pooled in the metadata, then it is treated as a
pooled sample and plotted as a black dot on the violinplots. But
this is confusing because if a user has all pooled samples, they may
think that they need to label them all as "pooled", and then their
violinplots would be lame and just a bunch of black dots.

@mlovci suggested having a boolean flag in the datapackage.json/ Study() object, e.g. is_single_cell_data=True or something, so it's
extensible to other data.

What do you think?

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