• Overview
• Starting MetaOmGraph
  • Opening a Pre-made Project
  • New Project: Delimited Text
  • New Project: SOFT File
• Metadata
• Project Data Window
• Correlations
• Plot Window
  • Metadata Sort
  • Custom Sort

Creating a New Project: SOFT Files

SOFT format files are availble from various databases, such as PlexDB and GEO. These files contain all the data MetaOmGraph needs, albeit in a somewhat slow-to-read format. However, MetaOmGraph can convert these files to a more "MOG-Friendly" format, and use them just as it would any regular delimited text file.

There are three sections to this dialog:

Files	Determines which SOFT files to include in the project. Any number of files can be used as long as all series/samples use the same platform. Use the + and - buttons to add and remove files, or add files by dragging and dropping them onto the dialog.
Row IDs	Displays row identifiers retrieved from the platform description. Check the "Include" box next to an identifier to include that identifier in the Project Data Window.
Destination Data File Name	MetaOmGraph will parse the included SOFT files and rewrite the data into a format it can easily read. After a SOFT file is added to the file list, this field will display a default destination file. To output the file elsewhere, click the Browse button.

Once all the options have been set, click the OK button to begin parsing. For large/multiple files, this can take a while. However, this only needs to be done once; the destination file (as set in the dialog) can be used for any future operations.