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Merge datasets

Merge multiple datasets into a single object using various filters
Martin A. Fitzpatrick

Introduction

Experimental systems can often be measured by multiple means, and a method for the re-integration of these data is essential. This plugin offers a simple method to merge quantified data from different sources.

Quick start

Select source data and merging will be applied automatically. Entities are added from each dataset in turn providing they are not already present in the preceding datasets. In this way you can combine multiple measures in order of confidence. Ranking is performed in order of connection, e.g. a data source on connector 1 will be ranked above one on connector 2.

The resulting dataset may contain >1 entry/entity (e.g. two measurements for a given metabolite). You may wish to subsequently filter this, e.g. by getting a mean per-metabolite summary.

Notes

You will probably want to scale your source data by a similar metric (e.g. unit variance, TMSP) before merging or you may find data from different sources are weighted differently in subsequent analysis.

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