def profiler(self):
        """
        Creates a dictionary from the profile scheme(s)
        """
        # Initialise variables
        profiledata = defaultdict(make_dict)
        profileset = set()
        genedict = {}
        # Find all the unique profiles to use with a set
        for sample in self.metadata.samples:
            if sample[self.analysistype].profile != 'NA':
                profileset.add(sample[self.analysistype].profile[0])
        # Extract the profiles for each set
        for sequenceprofile in profileset:
            # Clear the list of genes
            genelist = []
            for sample in self.metadata.samples:
                if sequenceprofile == sample[self.analysistype].profile[0]:
                    genelist = [os.path.split(x)[1].split('.')[0] for x in sample[self.analysistype].alleles]
            try:
                # Open the sequence profile file as a dictionary
                profile = DictReader(open(sequenceprofile))
            # Revert to standard comma separated values
            except KeyError:
                # Open the sequence profile file as a dictionary
                profile = DictReader(open(sequenceprofile))
            # Iterate through the rows
            for row in profile:
                # Iterate through the genes
                for gene in genelist:
                    # Add the sequence profile, and type, the gene name and the allele number to the dictionary
                    try:
                        profiledata[sequenceprofile][row['ST']][gene] = row[gene]
                    except KeyError:
                        pass
            # Add the gene list to a dictionary
            genedict[sequenceprofile] = sorted(genelist)
            # Add the profile data, and gene list to each sample
            for sample in self.metadata.samples:
                if sample.general.bestassemblyfile != 'NA':
                    if sequenceprofile == sample[self.analysistype].profile[0]:
                        # Populate the metadata with the profile data
                        sample[self.analysistype].profiledata = profiledata[sample[self.analysistype].profile[0]]
                        # Add the allele directory to a list of directories used in this analysis
                        self.allelefolders.add(sample[self.analysistype].alleledir)
                        dotter()