Motivation Pooling pre-processed data from public studies sucks! It takes time and way too much brain energy. When I first started in bioinformatics a couple years ago, I spent much of my time doing two things:

1.) cleaning -omics data matrices, e.g. mapping between gene IDs (HGNC, Ensembl, USCS, etc.) for pre-processed data matrices, trying all sort of bioinformatics pipelines that yield basically the same results, investigating what is the exact unit being counted over when pulling pre-processed data from public database, etc.

2.) cleaning metadata annotation, which usually involves extracting and aliasing the labels to the exact same categories.

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Github link: https://github.com/brianyiktaktsui/Skymap#quick-start-10min