blimp.preprocessing.operetta_parse_metadata.get_plate_metadata

blimp.preprocessing.operetta_parse_metadata.get_plate_metadata(metadata_file, out_file=None)

Extracts plate metadata from the operetta xml file.

Parameters:

• metadata_file (Union[str, Path]) – path to the xml metadata file

• out_file (Union[str, Path, None]) – enter a file path if this dataframe should be written to file (possible extensions are .csv or .pkl)

Returns:

Dimensions (n_rows = length(xmls), n_cols = # xml fields)

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame