About Ion Reporter™ Software
Ion Reporter™ Software performs analysis on BAM files that are output from Torrent Suite™ Software. VCF output files, that result from using the variantCaller plugin, can also be transferred and used for Ion Reporter™ Software analyses, if an annotation-only analysis workflow is used to process the files in Ion Reporter™ Software.
To transfer these BAM and VCF output files to Ion Reporter™ Software, you must add one or more Ion Reporter™ Software accounts. You can add accounts at any time, or when you configure the IonReporterUploader plugin. After an account is configured, there are several ways that you can transfer files to an organization in Ion Reporter™ Software.
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Torrent Suite™ Software can automatically transfer files from a completed run report to Ion Reporter™ Software and either make them available:
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As analyses in Ion Reporter™ Software. In this case, the output files are transferred to Ion Reporter™ Software and the analysis workflow of your choice for use in Ion Reporter™ Software is automatically launched on your newly transferred samples.
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In Ion Reporter™ Software as BAM and VCF files that can be later defined as samples in Ion Reporter™ Software.
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You can optionally choose to upload data manually to Ion Reporter™ Software Use this option if, for example, you want to upload data to Ion Reporter™ Software multiple servers. To upload data manually from Torrent Suite™ Software to Ion Reporter™ Software, do one of the following:
When the IonReporterUploader plugin defines samples from the newly transferred samples for Ion Reporter™ Software, sample relationships for paired and trio samples and sample attributes are also defined. For details, see Sample gender.
Ion Reporter™ Software is available under separate license and is not included with Torrent Suite™ Software.