The phrase "assays file" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a specific context related to scientific or laboratory work, referring to a file containing assay data or results.
Example: "The researcher submitted the assays file to the lab for further analysis."
Alternatives: "assay report" or "assay data file".
The three files are called Investigation file, Study file, and Assay file.
The Study Assays section is used to record information about each assay and its assay file, particularly, the assay and technology types, measurement variable names, and the assay file names (see example in Figure 7B).
The names of all Study and Assay files are recorded in the Investigation file in columns corresponding to the fields Study File Name Studyy section) and Study Assay File Name (Study Assays section), respectively.
To capture the measurement data, ISA-TAB-Nano specifies new fields in the Investigation file and in the Assay file.
Finally, the Assay file associates the raw data, derived data and image files via the column fields, Raw Data File, Derived Data File, and Image File, respectively.
One may choose to enter the factor values either in the Study file and/or in the Assay file, as appropriate to the actual experimental procedure(s).
Animals were allowed to move freely for 1 hr before being immobilized by 1 μl of 1 M sodium azide (movie of bacterial choice assay, File S2).
Specifically, ISA-TAB-Nano leverages the three primary ISA-TAB file formats - Investigation file, the Study file, and the Assay file - to represent the metadata related to the characterization of nanomaterials.
This is illustrated in Figure 5 and Figure 6, where the sample names in Column A of the assay file (a_LABsizeDLS.xls) are the same as those found in Column P of the study file (s_LABsizeDLS.xls).
Similarly, the same string must be used in the Factor Value column of the study file or assay file for material samples that are used as factors in an in vitro or an in vivo study.
