get_entity_Attribute

An attribute describes a category of condition or characteristic for an experiment. The goals of the experiment can be inferred from its values for all the attributes of interest.

Example:

get_entity_Attribute -a < ids > table.with.fields.added

would read in a file of ids and add a column for each filed in the entity.

The standard input should be a tab-separated table (i.e., each line is a tab-separated set of fields). Normally, the last field in each line would contain the id. If some other column contains the id, use

-c N

where N is the column (from 1) that contains the id.

This is a pipe command. The input is taken from the standard input, and the output is to the standard output.

Related entities

The Attribute entity has the following relationship links:

HasValueIn Experiment

Command-Line Options

-c Column

Use the specified column to define the id of the entity to retrieve.

-h

Display a list of the fields available for use.

-fields field-list

Choose a set of fields to return. Field-list is a comma-separated list of strings. The following fields are available:

description

Output Format

The standard output is a tab-delimited file. It consists of the input file with an extra column added for each requested field. Input lines that cannot be extended are written to stderr.