Echo Labware Definition

[dylanasimov]

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to post the dimensions that were used to create the labware definition for the agar plate in the Echo Software.

Thanks!

[Zulko]

Hello!

Sorry this is undocumented, according to this line, it looks like any dimension could work but the default is (192, 128) which is 16x16 times the resolution of your standard (12, 8) 96-well microplate. Does that answer your question?

[dylanasimov]

Somewhat. I understand that the resolution parameter describes the width/height of the microplate (in this case the omni tray) which is then used to define the destination well position in the output csv file.

However, I do not understand how you would use that information to create the labware definition in the Echo software so you can run the Echo protocol using the csv file. It is not possible to run the protocol unless there is a labware definition that contains the same destination well positions contained in the file (in this case a definition that has 192 columns and 128 rows). For reference here is the csv file generated for the dolly image: dolly.csv.

[veghp]

Following our conversation, I'll add this comment that may help others; the solution is to create a custom plate/array, where the number of rows/columns correspond to the resolution, using the Plate Type Editor or the Array Maker software.