Automatically read time points from data files

[Firas Midani]

Retool AMiGA so that it can read the time header in plate reader files. The main challenge here is that data file generated by different plate readers will format the time row differently.

One simple workaround is (1) to write a function that can parse most of those different formats and (2) to make reading time from data files optional, such that is is mainly called by users who made sure that their data files are formatted correctly. To do so, time would be read from data files only if users pass the right argument in their commands.

[Firas Midani]

@diefuechsin this should resolve your request in issue #9. Stay tuned.

[Ana-Hermina Ghenu]

Hello,
I'm wondering if this has been implemented already or still not yet?

[Firas Midani]

Sorry, not yet. I will push to make this improvement soon. In the meantime, if your data is collected at uniform intervals, you can use the --interval argument (look for details here) or changing the default interval in the configuration file (see details here).

[Ana-Hermina Ghenu]

Oh, it's okay, no worries if you don't have time to do it right now. I will make a hacky fork that allows input of tabular csv files and just use that.

Thanks for answering so quickly. And, more importantly, thanks for continuing to make improvements to the code! :)