PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Scott-Brown, James
AU  - Papachristodoulou, Antonis
TI  - Visual Representation of Experimental Protocols
AID  - 10.1101/226852
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 226852
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/30/226852.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/30/226852.full
AB  - Using robots to automate laboratory tasks could increase throughput and reproducibility, but requires experimental protocols to be specified in a computer-readable format. We present a new user interface (Lists of Liquids) for specifying experimental protocols by directly manipulating a diagram: rather than having to specify individual liquid handling operations, the user can simply specify that particular lists of liquids should be combined as either a Cartesian product or convolution, and the system will plan a series of liquid handling steps to achieve this. This is intended to provide a higher-level interface in order to make the creation of protocols faster and less error prone.