This repo is forked originally from https://github.com/ISA-tools/isa-api/tree/py2_isatools-lite.

The open source ISA metadata tracking tools help to manage an increasingly diverse set of life science, environmental and biomedical experiments that employing one or a combination of technologies.

Built around the ‘Investigation’ (the project context), Study’ (a unit of research) and ‘Assay’ (analytical measurement) general-purpose Tabular format, the ISA tools helps you to provide rich description of the experimental metadata (i.e. sample characteristics, technology and measurement types, sample-to-data relationships) so that the resulting data and discoveries are reproducible and reusable.

To find out more about ISA, see www.isa-tools.org

To find out who's using ISA and about the ISA development and user community, see www.isacommons.org

The ISA API aims to provide you, the developer, with a set of tools to help you easily and quickly build your own ISA objects, validate, and convert between serializations of ISA-formatted datasets and other formats/schemas (e.g. SRA schemas). The ISA API is published on PyPI as the isatools package.

This project is the isa-rwval package that provides ISA format read/write/validation functionality that the ISA API builds on.

Thie project contains the following modules:

• isatools.model contains classes implementing the ISA Abstract Model as Python objects.
• isatools.isatab contains features for parsing and serializing the ISA-Tab format to/from Python objects. The module also contains a ISA-Tab validator.
• isatools.isajson contains features for parsing and serializing the ISA-JSON format to/from Python objects. The module also contains a ISA-JSON validator.
• isatools.isaviz contains features for rendering ISA Python objects in visual artifacts with matplotlib.

These modules should be considered the gold-standard utilities for using the ISA formats with the Python programming language.

Authors: Code contributors.

License: This code is licensed under the CPAL License.

Repository: https://github.com/ISA-tools/isa-rwval

ISA team email: isatools@googlegroups.com

ISA discussion group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/isaforum

Github issue tracker: https://github.com/ISA-tools/isa-api/issues