robotools

This is a package for debugging and planning liquid handling operations, writing worklist files for the Tecan FreedomEVO and Tecan Fluent platform on the fly.

You can visit the documentation at https://robotools.readthedocs.io, where the notebooks are rendered next to auto-generated API documentation.

Installation

robotools is available through PyPI:

pip install robotools

Contributing

The easiest way to contribute is to report bugs by opening Issues.

We apply automated code style normalization using black. This is done with a pre-commit, which you can set up like this:

1. pip install pre-commit
2. pre-commit install
3. pre-commit run --all

Step 2.) makes sure that the pre-commit runs automatically before you make a commit.

Step 3.) runs it manually.

Usage and Citing

robotools is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

When using robotools in your work, please cite the corresponding software version.

@software{robotools,
  author       = {Michael Osthege and
                  Laura Helleckes and
                  Jochen Nießer and
                  Lisa Prigolovkin and
                  Tobias Latour and
                  Lars Halle and
                  Luisa Wachtendonk and
                  Clay Kosonocky},
  title        = {JuBiotech/robotools: v1.14.0},
  month        = aug,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.14.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.4697605},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697605}
}

Head over to Zenodo to generate a BibTeX citation for the latest release.