msmu.read_sdrf

Reads tab-delimited SDRF metadata and returns an obs-ready DataFrame.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
sdrf_file	str | Path	Path or URL to the SDRF file.	required
validate_sdrf	bool	Validate the SDRF with sdrf-pipelines if installed. Default is True.	True

Parsed SDRF columns preserve normalized SDRF header text, including spaces and square brackets.