On my first attempt at translating an experimental protocol to the Autoprotocol format I got as far as creating a run on Transcriptic with the protocol which is awesome. The downside of that Autoprotocol though, was that the samples being used in the experiment were hardcoded into the python script, so any variation in experimental samples or parameters would have to be made in the python.
Recently I wrote about my first experience of running a simple experiment on Transcriptic’s cloud biology platform. It was a simple bacterial growth curve. The protocol for running this experiment was produced by interacting with a GUI to enter parameters and the actual knitty-gritty of liquid handling and spectroscopic measurements was already predefined.
So I thought I would write up my first experience using Transcriptic.
Towards the end of my PhD I started to get really into R. During my undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds my whole class were really heavy users of Origin Pro which is a really great plotting tool with an easy to use GUI. Though the only real taste of programming during that period was the use of Maple for one practical.
Marlowe is a job tracking tool for the mass spectrometry service. It is a little buggy but it is better than submitting jobs by email!!
First you need to create an account with your email and a new password.
Once logged in, go to settings and add the project code where jobs get charged too.
Once that is created you can go ahead to the jobs section.
Click new job.
Chemical formula is case sensitive.
Fill in the details, the molecular weight will be calculated for you.
Hazard buttons don’t work so well right now so if you could just put the hazards in the comments that would be awesome!
Click the button to attach a chemical structure. We like jpg’s pleasethanks.
Then click Submit.
Note that after clicking submit, it will submit it but you won’t know!
Click the jobs button at the top of the page to return to your jobs so see your newly created job!!
That’s it, cya!
P.s if problems email Ben Miles, search the IC directory for it.