biom.table.Table.from_tsv¶

static Table.from_tsv(lines, obs_mapping, sample_mapping, process_func, **kwargs)¶

Parse a tab separated (observation x sample) formatted BIOM table

Parameters:	lines : list, or file-like object The tab delimited data to parse obs_mapping : dict or None The corresponding observation metadata sample_mapping : dict or None The corresponding sample metadata process_func : function A function to transform the observation metadata
Returns:	biom.Table A BIOM Table object

Examples

Parse tab separated data into a table:

>>> from biom.table import Table
>>> from io import StringIO
>>> tsv = 'a\tb\tc\n1\t2\t3\n4\t5\t6'
>>> tsv_fh = StringIO(tsv)
>>> func = lambda x : x
>>> test_table = Table.from_tsv(tsv_fh, None, None, func)