Changing BiodDiff Instrument choices
During the development of the Tiff Data Importer a discussion about the instrument choices for BioDiff came up.
The current discussions involves:
- removing the different instrument choices for BioDiff2500 and BioDiff5000 (when creating a new project)
- adding a single choice for BioDiff (when creating a new project)
- adding a setting for BioDiff dimensions during the data importing process (TiffDataDialog/RawDataDialog)
The reasons for that are the following:
- The choices of BioDiff2500 and BioDiff5000 are incomplete since data from BioDiff can also come in 10000x3600 px
- With the exception of dimensions these different BioDiff choices are identical
- The Tiff Data Importer now directly reads recorded data (with not preprocessing steps) the data must either fit directly to the instrument or it must be fitted (rebinned) to it
- So currently the user has to choose the right instrument and the right data files which fit to each other. This is not intuitive to them and it would be far better when the user chooses the dimensions of BioDiff (rebinning) during the data selecting/importing process to which dimensions the data should be fitted to
- The user wants the most intuitive and flexible workflow with the most control over it. They don't like to get stuck in a situation where they realize they would have needed to select a different BiodDiff choice one step earlier and now needs to deletes the project and creates it with the right setting.
So the easiest solution would look like this: The user would choose just BioDiff when creating a new experiment and while loading data he would also selects the dimensions of the instrument from a drop down menu with (2500x900, 5000x1800 and 10000x3600) options. Data would be rebinned then automatically
This is of course should be discussed more in detail in team before a solution would be implemented