Advanced Plate Sequencing with the BioStack | 131
AutoClean will occur after 15 plates are washed, after 30 plates are washed, and so
on.
Use a series of BioStack steps
When using the BioStack you can treat plates in a non-uniform manner by defining
a series BioStack step blocks. You can, for example, determine the optimal number
of wash cycles required for an assay.
Don't forget to define the "Number of plates
to process" for all the BioStack loops in the
protocol. Enter the number of plates at
runtime or when defining the protocol.
In this example we create groups of like-
processed plates. The stack will contain in
this sequence:5 plates with 5 cycles, 5 plates
with 4 cycles, 5 plates with 3 cycles, and 5
plates with 2 cycles. The plates in the
BioStack's output stack will be sorted this
way:
Plates # Wash
Cycles
1 5
2 5
3 5
4 5
5 5
6 4
7 4
8 4
9 4
10 4
11 3
12 3
13 3
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