`robot template`: Drop non-robot cols?

[joeflack4]

Overview

Docs:

>A (axiom annotations): ROBOT can also annotate logical and annotation axioms. The axiom annotation will be on the axiom created on the cell to the left of the >A* template string. The > symbol can be used in front of any valid annotation character (>A, >AT, >AL, >AI)

Sometimes I have an issue where I create ROBOT templates that are also used by curators. And sometimes the most ideal layout for curation involves a non-robot column between robot cols, which sometimes causes a kind of syntax issue, resulting in a column of axioms annotations are getting ignored.

Example case

exact_synonym	source_id	source_label	synonym_type
A oboInOwl:hasExactSynonym	>A oboInOwl:hasDbXref		>AI oboInOwl:hasSynonymType

Here, someone might want to see source ID and source label side-by-side, but this creates a “break” between the axiom annotation columns. So when the template is run, the synonym_type column doesn’t end up doing anything

Suggestion

I’m wondering if this is intentional design, and if there's some reason for this that I'm not aware of.

But if not, then I would suggest that "non robot" columns (columns without a robot subheader) should simply be dropped during preprocessing.

[jamesaoverton]

Sorry that I didn't reply to this promptly. It's a good request, and I was able to implement it easily in #1225.

[joeflack4]

Thanks @jamesaoverton ! This is a very nice quality of life improvement ;3
CC @matentzn @twhetzel FYI