Plateo (pronounced Plato, like the planet) is a Python library to assist in the planning, running and checking of laboratory experiments involving microplates.
It can be used to:
- Read and write robotic protocols (picklists) in different formats to accomodate different liquid dispensers (Tecan EVO, Labcyte Echo).
- Simulate liquid dispensing runs, taking into account the capacity and dead volume of each container, to predict the maps of future plates.
- Parse plate data from common laboratory robots (for kinetic experiments, fragment analysis, qPCR, etc.)
- Export plate information in various formats (graphics, spreadsheets, HTML, JSON, etc.).
PIP installation:
pip install plateo
Web documentation:
https://edinburgh-genome-foundry.github.io/Plateo/
Github Page:
https://github.com/Edinburgh-Genome-Foundry/Plateo
Live demo:
https://cuba.genomefoundry.org/create_assembly_picklists
License: MIT, Copyright Edinburgh Genome Foundry
Plateo is part of the EGF Codons synthetic biology software suite for DNA design, manufacturing and validation.