Plateo

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Plateo is a Python library that assists in the planning of laboratory experiments involving microplates.

It can be used to:

• Model laboratory microplates, well contents and liquid transfers.
• Read and write robotic protocols (picklists) in different formats to accomodate different liquid dispensers (Tecan EVO, Labcyte Echo).
• Simulate liquid dispensing runs, taking into account the capacity and dead volume of each container, to predict the maps of future plates.
• Parse plate data from common laboratory robots (for kinetic experiments, fragment analysis, qPCR, etc.)
• Export plate information in various formats (graphics, spreadsheets, HTML, JSON, etc.).
• Create detailed report on various complex operations.

Install

Plateo can be installed from the Python Package Index: ::

pip install plateo

Code organization

• Plateo is organised around various lab containers and liquid transfers between them.
• The containers folder has the Well and WellContent classes, which model microplate wells and their contents. The Plate class models laboratory microplates. Built-in plates with predefined dimensions, capacity, dead volume, etc. are also stored in this folder.
• The transfers folder contents simulate liquid transfers (Transfer) and lists of transfers (PickList).
• The parsers folder contains all methods for generating Plates or Picklists from machine files and data.
• The exporters folder contains all methods for exporting Plates or PickLists into human- or machine-readable formats.
• The applications folder contains complex procedures with input/output operations; such as creating a DNA assembly picklist and related documentation.

Versioning

Plateo uses the semantic versioning <https://semver.org>_ scheme.

License = MIT

Plateo is free software <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html>_, which means the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

Plateo was originally written by Zulko <https://github.com/Zulko>_ at the Edinburgh Genome Foundry <http://www.genomefoundry.io>_ and is currently being developed by Peter Vegh <https://github.com/veghp>_. It is released under the MIT license (Copyright 2017 Edinburgh Genome Foundry, University of Edinburgh).