Changes to formatting study/assay names and column headers

[sellth]

Problem

Currently SODAR auto-formats strings in multiple places in a not always ideal way:

• Underscores are replaced with spaces
• Words are forced to start with a capital letter and not contain any more i.e. This Style.

This is done for study names, assay names, and all samplesheet column headers. Very often, this style does not fit the content we put in these text fields. For example:

• scRNA-seq in assay names gets converted to Scrna-seq
• KRAS and pERK1/2 in Characteristics fields are converted to Kras and Perk1/2

Suggested action

One of the following

• Stop auto-formatting in these places
• Tone down to just replacing underscores
• Give a user setting to disable auto-formatting

[mikkonie]

Related to #576. I probably will not stop as that makes everything look terrible, but toning down or adding a user setting for this are good ideas.

[sellth]

I would argue the opposite, auto-formatting makes many things look terrible. The platform name is written cBioPortal.

[mziehm]

As a user. I second the point of @sellth that the current auto-formatting lead to ugly formatting. As further examples Qc instead of QC or Pcr instead of PCR. I would argue that the responsibility for the correct capitalization should be with the definition. Underscores I personally find a bit more tricky as they are common used internal naming a space replacement and then often displayed best with space. But options would be in any case great.