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Fast expectation maximization for microbial source tracking
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What is the id column? #23

Open NeginValizadegan opened 3 years ago

NeginValizadegan commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I'm a bit unclear about how to sort the id column. I have 35 sink samples from blood and ~3000 sources from different body sites. I'm not sure what the id column is trying to do and how am I supposed to assign ids.

NeginValizadegan commented 3 years ago

I figured it out. In my case, I wanted to use the same sources with all my sink samples, so I would have to number my sink samples from 1 to n (total number of samples) and leave the sources blank. Also, you would want to make sure sources are blank and not NAs as the program will throw an error at you.

The documentation for the id column could be clearer. Maybe an example file could be provided for when there is more than one sink using the same sources.