Molecular Devices StakMax User Manual page 98

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Action when plate section(s) filled: Select an action to take if there
are more plates to read than sections in the assigned protocol. The
software will either open new copies of the protocol or will append plate
sections to the original protocol until all of the plates have been read.
• If you want to save the data from each plate or set of plates to a
different data file, select Open a New Protocol. For example, if
you have 50 sample plates and the assigned protocol has one
Plate section, the software opens 49 copies of the protocol and
saves the data to 50 data files. Alternatively, if you have 4 sets
of 5 plates (1 control plate and 4 sample plates) and the
assigned protocol has 5 plate sections, the software opens 4
instances of the protocol for each set of plates and saves the
data to 4 data files. This option allows you to easily automate
the processing of plate sets without the need to develop a script.
• If you want to save the data from all of the plates to the same
data file, select Append a Plate Section. For example, if you
have 50 sample plates and the assigned protocol has one Plate
section, the software adds 49 Plate sections to the original
protocol and the data from all of the plates is saved in a single
data file.
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