code: def parseruninfo(self):
          
          # Check if the RunInfo.xml file is provided, otherwise, yield N/A
          try:
              runinfo = ElementTree.ElementTree(file=self.runinfo)
              # Get the run id from the
              for elem in runinfo.iter():
                  for run in elem:
                      try:
                          self.runid = run.attrib['Id']
                          self.runnumber = run.attrib['Number']
                      except KeyError:
                          break
              # pull the text from flowcell and instrument values using the .iter(tag="X") function
              for elem in runinfo.iter(tag="Flowcell"):
                  self.flowcell = elem.text
              for elem in runinfo.iter(tag="Instrument"):
                  self.instrument = elem.text
          except IOError:
              pass
          # Extract run statistics from either GenerateRunStatistics.xml or indexingQC.txt
          self.parserunstats()
docs: Extracts the flowcell ID, as well as the instrument name from RunInfo.xml. If this file is not provided,
          NA values are substituted