RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Visual Representation of Experimental Protocols
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 226852
DO 10.1101/226852
A1 Scott-Brown, James
A1 Papachristodoulou, Antonis
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/30/226852.abstract
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.