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Workflows and Tools
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 all tools under the Tool library in the left side panel.
Create Plate Map Tool
This Tool allows the user to create one or more new plate maps. A plate map defines a mapping of the contents of a plate (these can hold materials, reagents, organisms, or other biological entities), this means that this is a planning of which material will be held in which well of a plate. This tool can be used as part of a workflow after creating materials (for example, after the Microbial Transformation Tool to transfer our new transformed microbes).
The first step is to launch it from the Tools library.
The tool consists of two steps:
Step 1: Plate Map Settings
On this step, we will first specify a plate format. For this example, let's select a 96-well plate.
Next, we need to indicate the item type we'll use to populate the plate maps:
Here we selected Materials. Now, we can select the items that we want to arrange in our output plate map.
Once we have everything set up, we can continue with the next step:
Step 2: Plate Map Configuration
Here, we can name our plate map and give a name of the group (in case we did more than one plate map). We can also drag the selected materials from the list on the left of the screen and drop them into the wells of the plate on the right of the screen to arrange them as we want:
Click on the dotted lines to the left of a material name in the list and drag the material to a specific well of the plate map. To drag and drop multiple materials, follow the following steps:
Click on a material and command-click or shift-click (an)other material(s) to highlight the selected materials.
Select a ‘Fill Direction’ from the drop-down menu (Right, Left, Up and Down)
Fill direction (Eg. Right Direction): By picking "Right" from the drop-down list to the left of the clear plate button, the tool now fills the wells with selected materials in the order of appearance in the selection list and to the right of the chosen well on which the materials are dropped.
If you want to unassign all materials on a plate map, click ‘Clear Plate.’ Alternatively, you can delete the mapping of a particular well by right-clicking that well and click ‘Delete’.
When satisfied with the plate map configuration, click ‘Create Plate Map(s)’
To view the plate map group that you have created, click on ‘Plate Map Group’. You can click on the → arrow to scroll through other plate maps in the group.
