Protocol Steps
The Liquid Handling Control (LHC) offers action buttons for defining a protocol:
All additional action buttons are offered by the current instrument's software. To learn about them, open their parameters dialog and click the Help button.
Click Validate (with the instrument attached to the host computer) to make sure the steps can be performed in the current sequence.
Features of the work area:
- Highlight a step or the <end of steps> placeholder and click an action button to put a command above it
- Click and drag a step to change its order in the protocol
- Double-click a step to modify its parameters
- Select a step and click the Delete button on your keyboard to remove it
- Right-click for a context-sensitive menu of editing options like Copy and Paste
- Loop and Use BioStack are step containers: First add these steps to the Protocol and then insert the action steps between their start and end tags. All the steps in the loop will be performed on each plate the specified number of times. Likewise, all steps in the BioStack loop will be performed on each plate before it is put in the output stack.
- The step currently being performed is highlighted when you run the protocol.
- You can review each step's parameters in more detail by highlighting it in the Protocol Steps box and scrolling through the Step Details box below. Double-click the Step Details to make changes to the step.