biom.load_table¶

biom.load_table(f)¶

Load a Table from a path

Parameters:	f : str or file-like object The entity to parse
Returns:	Table
Raises:	IOError If the path does not exist TypeError If the data in the path does not appear to be a BIOM table

Examples

Parse a table from a path. BIOM will attempt to determine if the fhe file is either in TSV, HDF5, JSON, gzip’d JSON or gzip’d TSV and parse accordingly:

>>> from biom import load_table
>>> table = load_table('path/to/table.biom')