A couple months ago I posted about PlatePlanner - a tool I was working on to make managing platemaps easier.
Today I added in a worklist builder - easily stamp or interleave up to four plates of any size onto a target plate. You can preview the resulting plate alongside the Hamilton-ready csv generated, making it easy to identify mistakes that might be missed with just raw text. You can also grab a screenshot for your records!
The worklist will also avoid any wells you’ve excluded (i.e. to avoid edge effects)!
As always I’m eager to get your feedback about how to make the tool more useful!
Can this tool do the reverse process? Say I randomize a 96 well plate into a 384 well plate in quadruplicate on the Vantage, and generate a .csv file that maps the destination wells of the 384wp to the source wells of the 96wp. Is this tool able to provide a derandomized platemap of the 384wp?
Of course! One of the systems that I work on is used for cell-based drug screening using 384wps. We serially dilute our treatment conditions in 96wps.
To mitigate edge effect, we randomize the 96wp in each quadrant of the 384wp instead of stamping the 96wp straight into the 384wp. At runtime, a .xls (not .csv, sorry about that) is generated. I currently use an Excel macro to derandomize the 384wp. Your tool seems like it could be a much improved solution to what I currently do
