ISA conversions

The ISA API includes a set of functions to allow you to convert between ISA formats, as well as between ISA formats and other formats such as SRA. These converters can be found in the isatools.convert package.

Converting from ISA tab to ISA JSON

To convert from a directory ./tabdir/ containing valid ISA tab files (e.g. i_investigation.txt, s_...txt and a_...txt files) to a write the target JSON to another directory ./outdir/:

from isatools.convert import isatab2json
isatab2json.convert('./tabdir/', './outdir/')

Converting from ISA JSON to ISA tab

To convert from a ISA JSON file isa.jsondirectory to write out ISA tab files to a target directory ./outdir/:

from isatools.convert import json2isatab
json2isatab.convert(open('isa.json')), './outdir/')