Hey everyone,
I’ve been working a lot with GEO datasets lately and I always find the metadata messy and inconsistent (organism names vary, missing values, etc.). Especially when you want to combine multiple datasets or do a meta-analysis, it becomes a real bottleneck.
I’m curious:
- How do you normally clean the metadata?
- Do you use your own scripts?
- Do you trust the platform annotations?
I recently stumbled upon a small browser-based tool that lets you input a GEO ID or upload a .soft file and it gives back cleaned metadata (normalizes organism names, highlights missing values, etc.).
Here’s the tool in case you want to take a look:
metagenclean[dot]streamlit[dot]app
(Works best in Chrome; Safari has some JS issues)
I’d love to hear your thoughts:
- Would this be useful in your workflow?
- Anything missing that you’d want it to do?
- Any red flags?
Really appreciate any feedback!
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Again... "I recently stumbled upon a small browser-based tool"
On the site: "Created by alba0gf"
That's the second time you've linked your own tool under the pretence of "this is just something I found online"
Agreed, just make a "Tool" post if you want to spread the word about it.
People tend to take those much better than these weak attempts at nesting a recommendation in a pointless question.
edit: Oh, I just saw, you did make a tool post as well. In that case, this question should be removed.
They did make a Tool post originally, but still phrased it as something they just came across rather than "I made thing". I dunno, it's odd.