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Creating a tool to merge genomic datasets

<tool id="mergeGenomicFiles" description="Merge two genomic datasets into a new dataset" name="mergeGenomicFiles" version="0.0.1">
  <description>
    Given two genomic datasets, merge them to create a third dataset with the row and column identifiers from both datasets.
  </description>
  <command interpreter="python">
      mergeGenomicMatrixFiles.py $outputC $inputA $inputB
  </command>
  <inputs>
    <param name="inputA" format="tabular" type="data" label="Genomic Dataset A"/>
    <param name="inputB" format="tabular" type="data" label="Genomic Dataset B"/>
  </inputs>
  <outputs>
    <data name="outputC" format="tabular"/>
  </outputs>
  <help>
    ***Merge Genomic Datasets***

    Given two genomic datasets, merge them to produce a third dataset that is the union of the first two.  The new dataset will contain all column labels from either dataset, and all row labels from either dataset.  If a row label appears in both datasets, the output dataset will contain, for that row, all values for the first set of columns, plus all values for the second set of columns.  If a row label appears in the first dataset only, the output dataset will contain the values for the columns of the first dataset, and blanks (indicating missing values) for the columns of the second da
  </help>
</tool>