It would be nice to, for a given set of samples and possibly a context, fetch specific metadata categories. Right now, the approach is to either take all columns in common (intersection) with a set of samples, or all columns possible (union) for a set of samples. I think the necessary API change would be to allow for providing a kwarg like specific_categories which is an iterable. The method should appropriately set null when a sample does not have a category. This method would need to operate either exclusively or in conjunction with the current set operations. One possible CLI example would be:
It would be nice to, for a given set of samples and possibly a context, fetch specific metadata categories. Right now, the approach is to either take all columns in common (intersection) with a set of samples, or all columns possible (union) for a set of samples. I think the necessary API change would be to allow for providing a kwarg like
specific_categorieswhich is an iterable. The method should appropriately set null when a sample does not have a category. This method would need to operate either exclusively or in conjunction with the current set operations. One possible CLI example would be: