SiLeBAT/FSK-Lab

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    <name>XLS Data Reader</name>
    
    <shortDescription>
    Loads microbial data from an Excel spreadsheet    
    </shortDescription>
    
    <fullDescription>
        <intro>Loads laboratory test data from a Microsoft Excel (XLS) file, stored for example as time series of bacterial cell counts for a specific organism-matrix combination with defined test conditions concerning temperature (temp), pH value (ph) and/or water activity (aw).</intro>
        
        
        <option name="XLS File">Specify the XLS file. Please set up a chart with data in columns. The first row should contain the column headline. Use one column for ID (for every time series a different ID) and then at least columns for value and time.</option>
        <option name="Sheet">If the file contains several spreadsheets the desired one can be selected here.</option>
        <option name="Literature">Assign a reference from the internal database to the time series. In order choose your own reference this needs to be entered manually by clicking on the green '+' button. Another option is to enter the database via 'PMM-Lab' -> 'Open DB GUI...' where also *.ris files can be imported.</option>
         <option name="Organism / Matrix">Choose a column from the XLS file and assign to every organism / matrix one equivalent from the internal database.</option>
        <option name="XLS Column -> PMM-Lab assignments">Assign to every column header from the Excel sheet (on the left) a column from the database table 'Test conditions' via the drop-down menus. For time and environmental conditions (e.g. temperature) units need to be assigned.</option>
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       <outPort index="0" name="Data">Imported data</outPort>
    </ports>    
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