TeselaGen assists you in automating processes with iterative steps to update your Lab Inventory Management System automatically with the input reagents or materials used and by adding the outputs of those reactions on existing samples, or even creating new plates or tubes with your new output materials. This is carried out through workflow definitions, where you describe the steps followed in your protocol as a series of tasks to accomplish, which we call Tools. You can find them under the Tools library in the left side panel.

This tool searches your inventory for specific samples containing the specified materials or reagents. This is usually used on a series of steps (which we call workflows) to validate the existence of the materials we will need for a specific experimental protocol. After running the task, the tool outputs the updated plates and a data table to track them.

The first step is to launch it from the Tools library.

This tool is divided into two steps:

On this first screen we need to indicate what are we looking for (materials or reagents, indicated on the "Target type" field), and the input type (what file or entry the system will use to look for the specific material we are looking for).

For this example, let's select Material > PCR Plate Map. Then, we can select our desired plate map from our inventory:

In this case, we have selected a plate map that doesn't contain materials. On a practical use, we wouldn't be able to continue with the experiment, so the tool will result in "No valid materials found on plate map group".

To continue with the process, let's try again by clicking on "Change Plate Map Group" and this time selecting the Combinatorial Golden Gate PCR input materials.

This time, we have selected a valid set of samples with appropriate materials, so we can continue with the next step.

In this step, we are asked to review the updated plates and to name the Table.

Now we can click on "Submit", which runs the tool and provides us the links to the relevant data used and created by the tool.

By clicking on the hyperlinks on the last screen on the tool we can access to the selected Plates:

From there we can also see the Inventory Check Table: