read_panel

read_panel(path, *, cpgs=None, index_col=0, platform='targeted panel', obs=None)

A targeted assay: pyrosequencing, EpiTYPER, amplicon, ddPCR.

What most laboratories can actually afford, and the input path an array-shaped reader makes awkward. A panel is a declared set of CpGs, so the reader takes that declaration and checks the file against it rather than inferring the panel from whichever columns happen to be present – a typo in a probe name would otherwise become a missing probe, and a missing probe becomes an imputed one.

Nothing here lowers the coverage floor. A panel covering six of Horvath’s 353 probes must fail loudly; score already refuses below min_coverage, and the point of this reader is to reach that refusal with an accurate feature list rather than to get around it.