AltamISA: a Python API for ISA-Tab files

Abstract

AltamISA is a Python library for reading, validating, representing and writing the ISA-Tab file format. ISA-Tab is an open, TSV (tab separated values)-based file format for representing the ISA (investigation study assay) tools data model (Sansone et al., 2012). The ISA tools data model allows for representing life science experiments and annotating the modeled objects and steps with arbitrary meta data. The ISA tools data model and TSV format are used by various life science databases, including MetaboLights (Haug et al., 2013).