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clemente-lab / mmeds-meta

A database for storing and analyzing omics data
https://mmeds.org
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Investigate features we don't understand #410

Open adamcantor22 opened 2 years ago

adamcantor22 commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Things regularly pop up in the development of this tool that we don't understand, such as why the creation of directories in config.py has both a check to see if the directory exists and a try-catch statement that expects a FileExistsError at the same time.

Describe the solution you'd like Need to go through and document things we don't understand. These need to be tested and fixed, and if all else fails we can contact David about them.

adamcantor22 commented 2 years ago

Feature we don't understand: Simplified-to-Full metadata. There is an option to upload "simplified" metadata, and a method in util.py for converting to "full" metadata. This method is odd and unclear, and it's unclear what the purpose of the simplified format is, especially as it seems to remove several columns that are quite necessary.