> You can select which scan a raw bioassay belongs to from the "Edit
> rawbioassay" page.

Thanks Nicklas, this was what I was looking for (but at the wrong place).

> 
>  > In order for the importer to be really
> > useful I need to connect the raw data to samples in some way. From
> reading
> > earlier posts it seems that connecting all the raw bioassays to one
> single
> > scan is possible, but will there in upcoming base versions be more
> flexible
> > association possibilities?
> 
> We have discussed this and came to the conclusion that the current
> implementation is the most accurate representation of the process. The
> BASE model assumes that there is a one-to-one relation between a slide
> and hybridization. An Illumina slide has several (8 or more) arrays on a
> single slide. This doesn't fit the current model in all aspects. Some
> compromises has to be made. This is how we decided to do:
> 
>   * The slide is represented a single ArraySlide item in the database
>   * The hybridization event links 8 (or more) labeled extracts to
>     the slide (one for each array)
>   * A single scan event represents the scanning
>   * One raw bioassay for each array is created
> 
> This will make is possible to accurately record scan and hybridization
> parameters without having to duplicate (8 times) the same data. The
> drawback is that the experiment validation will complain about the 8
> labeled extracts since it expects only 1 for 1-channel data. It will
> also complain about all labeled extracts having the same label. But
> these warnings can be turned off. Another drawback is that all 8 labeled
> extracts will be treated as parents to all 8 raw bioassays, even though
> there really is a one-to-one relationship between those.
> 
> /Nicklas

I don't mind those drawbacks as long as the user can connect to one hyb (and
one sample indeirectly) from the "Edit raw bioassay" page.

Vegard.


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