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Appendix A Software Reference
A-4 Applied Biosystems 7900HT Fast Real-Time PCR System and SDS Enterprise Database User Guide
Setup Table Files
About the Setup
Table File Format
The SDS software features the ability to import setup table information into a plate
document from a tab-delimited text file. To guarantee a successful importation of
setup table data, the imported file must follow the setup table format outlined in this
section.
Format Overview
The information in the setup table file must be ordered according to the following
convention:
1. File Version (see page A-5)
Plate Characteristics
2. Plate Size (see page A-5)
3. Plate ID (see page A-5)
Detector Definitions
4. Number of Detectors (see page A-6)
5. Detectors List Header (see page A-6)
6. Detectors List (see page A-7)
Marker Definitions
7. Number of Markers (Allelic Discrimination Only) (see page A-8)
8. Markers List Header (Allelic Discrimination Only) (see page A-8)
9. Markers List (Allelic Discrimination Only) (see page A-9)
Well-Detector Information
10. Well-Detector List Header (see page A-10)
11. Well-Detector Definition List (see page A-10)
Well-Marker Information
12. Well-Marker List Header (Allelic Discrimination Only) (see page A-12)
13. Well-Marker Definition List (Allelic Discrimination Only) (see page A-12)
Conventions
The following conventions are used in the rest of this section:
•
courier – Text appearing in bolded courier font must be applied to a setup
table file exactly as appears in this document.
•
italic – Text appearing in italic courier font must be substituted with custom
values when applied to a setup table file.
•
[ required text ] – Text appearing between brackets is required
information in setup table files. All information inside the brackets must be
present in the setup table file for the SDS software to import it.
•
{ optional text } – Text appearing between braces is optional in setup
table files.
•
<tab> – The tab character (the equivalent of pressing the Tab key)
•
<cr> – The carriage-return character (the equivalent of pressing the Enter key)
IMPORTANT! To guarantee a successful importation of the setup table file into a
plate document, the file must contain all the elements described in the following
section and in the order that they appear in this document.