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Defining Plates
Creating Plates
Creating
Plates
There are three ways to create plates:
•
Using the New Plate Dialog box (See “Creating Plates with the New Plate Dialog
Box” below for instructions.)
•
From a template file (See “Creating Plates using Templates” on page 33 for
instructions.)
•
By selecting an assay group (See “Applying Sample Groups” on page 49 for
instructions.)
Creating Plates with the New Plate Dialog Box
To create a new plate
1.
2.
On the Plate tab, select the customer and project in which the new plate will be
stored.
Right-click a project name, and choose New Plate from the menu that appears.
OR, click on the File menu and select New, followed by New Plate.
The Create a New Plate dialog box appears.
The Plate ID can be any combination
of characters and numbers.
Choose the option for the
appropriate number of wells
on the plate
Create a New Plate dialog box
3.
Type the Plate ID using any combination of alpha or numeric characters.
4.
Click the option for 96 Wells or 384 Wells.
5.
Click OK.
The new blank plate opens.
Creating Plates using Templates
Creating Templates A plate template is a tab-delimited text file that specifies the
layout of a plate. The text file may be created in Microsoft Notepad or Microsoft
Excel, as long as it is saved as a tab-delimited file. Templates are used to create plates
in PlateEditor. The syntax of a plate template file is as follows:
Well Number P
Pool Number
Type one well of data per line, and separate each data entry (well number, P, pool
number) by pressing the Tab key.
Example plate template files are shown in Figure 1 below through Figure 3 on
page 35.
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