Closed bdrown closed 7 years ago
Interesting! MD really seems to like changing up their file formats. It looks like there were some nice things in the old format, like a version string and information about the Experiment (in the newer version, the XML only includes one Experiment section, which is insane).
I'll make some time in the next few days to get this working with the 5.4 format. Would you mind sending me (here or to bdc at bconnelly.net) an XML file?
No problem. I've attached both endpoint and kinetic experiments. If there's a particular permutation of settings you're interested in, I can send those too. SM_5.4_example_data.zip
Thanks, these are really helpful! Looks like it should be pretty easy. If you get a chance, I'd be curious whether the XML files exported by v5.4 include sections for each experiment when there are multiple experiments in the project.
There are indeed multiple experiment sections when exported to XML. It works as you might expect. SM_5.4_multiexp.zip
In progress. It's crazy how different these files are.
A few small requests:
SMP5 throws an error if you try to create multiple plates, note, or experiments with the same name. Strange how drastically different these two versions are. I've attached an experiment with multiple notes. SM_5.4_multinote.zip
Great, thanks! I'm wondering if version 7 has another totally different format too. Seems like something they could have done right once and kept.
Absorbance reads seem to be working with SMP5 data, so I'm going to close this issue. I'm adding separate issues for other SMP5 features, though, like templates and other read modes.
Great tool you've got here. I was about to write something analogous but did a quick search and saw you beat me to the punch.
We've got a platereader running with Softmax 5.4. The XML files it generates are slightly different (the name of each plate is a child instead of an attribute).
I also have access to Softmax 6.4 and was able to export the same data. This XML file worked just fine.
I'd be happy to try to adapt
read_softmax_xml
to work with older XML formats.