Load spots data

This operation allows you to load spots data from a CSV file.

Spots data CSV file

This option allows you to load spots data from a CSV file. This CSV file must have the same format that the one used by the SameSpots report editor to store the spots data.

Usage

You can execute this operation by clicking the menu option Load/Load spots or the toolbar button.

A dialog will appear allowing you to choose the CSV file containing the spots data. As you can see in the following image, this dialog requires you to provide the following information:

Load Spots Data dialog

As commented above, you can customize the CSV format by selecting the Custom format option. When you select this option, the following custom format panel will be shown in the dialog. The options included in this panel will allow you to customize the CSV format:

Custom CSV panel

After clicking the Ok button, the loaded spots data is automatically added as a Spots data datatype to the clipboard and automatically opened it in the Integrated analysis view.