plate_metadata: Combining Plate Specific Information with Metadata
In bioassays: Summarising Multi Well Plate Cellular Assay

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

plate_metadata combine the plate specific information (like compounds used, standard concentration, dilution of samples, etc) and metadata, to produce a plate specific metadata.

1	plate_metadata (plate_details, metadata, mergeby = "type")

`plate_details`	plate specific information that need to be added to metadata
`metadata`	column that is common to both metadata and plate_meta (as a string in "")
`mergeby`	column that is common to both metadata and plate_meta (as a string in "")

plate_details need to be in a list format. Metadata should have a 'row' and 'col' columns representing the row and column names of the corresponding multi well plate.

A dataframe. Each element of 'plate_details' will appear as a new column to the left of 'metadata'

A.A Palakkan

## loading data
data(metafile96)
plate_details <- list("compound" = "Taxol",
                     "concentration" = c(0.00,0.01,0.02,0.05,0.10,1.00,5.00,10.00),
                     "type" = c("S1","S2","S3","S4","S5","S6","S7","S8"),
                     "dilution" = 1)

## eg:1 filling metadata96 using plate_details
plate_meta<-plate_metadata(plate_details,metafile96,mergeby="type")
head(plate_meta)