implementing associated conditionals

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Writing conditionals can be exhausting when many if/else clauses are involved. To simplify the writing of conditionals, the authors can choose to write them in a concise manner as an associated conditional using the /number notation after the key-value pairs, and a comment denoted by regular bracket after the intended value.

Example

*"The top five templates identified by TopDomain were {3N25_A (a), 4YJ5_A (b), 3GR4_A (c), 1A49_A (d), 6DU6_B (e)|template_pdbs}/1 with sequence identities of {99% (a), 93% (b), 93% (c), 100% (d), 63% (e)|template_identities}/1, coverages of {95% (a), 97% (b), 97% (c), 97% (d), 96%(e)|template_coverages}/1, and predicted TM-Score of {0.96 (a), 0.96 (b), 0.96 (c), 0.96 (d), 0.93(e)| template_confidences}/1, respectively."*

Explanation

From the experiment documentation above, associated key-value pairs are marked with the number after the "/" symbol, so keys with a similar number are grouped together. In the example above, template_pdbs, template_identities, template_coverages, and template_confidences belong to the same association. The values on each key are then associated according to the comment in the regular bracket. Thus, if template_pdbs = 3N25_A, then template_identities = 99%, template_coverages = 95%, and template_confidences = 0.96. In a table, the correlation is grouped as shown below.

association set	1	1	1	1	1
mapping	a	b	c	d	e
template_pdbs	4YJ5_A	3N25_A	3GR4_A	1A49_A	6DU6_B
template_identities	0.99	0.93	0.93	1	0.63
template_coverages	0.95	0.97	0.97	0.97	0.96
template_confidences	0.96	0.96	0.96	0.96	0.93

Note: the user needs to adapt this by removing irrelevant values and /{number} annotations when adapting the template to an experiment.