3. GS Amplicon Variant Analyzer Command Line Interface
:
3.1 Purpose of the CLI
: 3.1.2 Data Export
3.1.2
Data Export
It is often convenient to use an existing Project as the starting point for the creation of a new Project. For example, you may be measuring the same set of Amplicons for different Projects that have different owners and therefore need to be kept separate. Or, you may find that some set of Reference Sequences or Amplicons get reused across several different Projects. In such situations, the ability to export the information from an existing Project, and import it into a new Project, eliminates the duplication of labor and accumulated error risk of data re-entry. The CLI addresses this problem through a Project cloning command (the “utility clone” command usage statement is given in section
3.4.17.4
) and a set of more focused “list” commands (see section
3.4.7
for the usage statement).
The “utility clone” command allows you to safely make a copy of any existing Project (with or without its accompanying Read Data) to a new location. The cloned Project can be renamed and edited to be appropriately used as a new Project.
The “list” command can be used in a more focused manner to export data for particular Project objects rather than exporting the setup of an entire Project. For example, you could use the command “list reference ‑outputFile referenceExport.txt” to export a table of Reference Sequences from a Project that could then be imported into another Project with the command “create reference -file referenceExport.txt”.
