The script has two modes one for chart files and one for cluster files.
The chart mode splits the data entries by genes, and writes them into a file containing all entries and into sub files that
contain only 50 data rows each.
The cluster mode splits the cluster file into chart like files, each containing the data of one cluster. The cluster
info is added as additional columns. Afterwards each chart like file gets handled like
the usual chart files.
You need to have python 2.7 installed. You can test this by executing
python --version
in a terminal. The output should look like
➜ python --version
Python 2.7.10
You'll need to execute it in a terminal like
python file_splitter.py [file_path] [chart|cluster]
where file_path is the path leading to the data file. The second argument defines how the
file gets handled. An example call would be
python file_splitter.py path/to/chart.txt chart
This will produce an output like
➜ python file_splitter.py ../input/chart.txt
INFO: directory 'output' already exists, will probably overwrite the old data
INFO: created the complete data file
INFO: created 38 splitted files
In this case the output directory already existed, which is no problem. It also tells you that it created the file with all the data, and the splitted files.
You will find all files in the created output folder, in the directory in which
you executed the script.
In case of handling a cluster, you will find all output files in output/cluster.