Summary of Contents for Genetix CloneSelect Imager
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CloneSelect Imager Description of the Automation API Control #: 05GUI1010.A2 Effective Date: 03-Jun-11 ECO #: 3011...
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GENETIX > CLONESELECT IMAGER DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATION API Contents Theory of Operation ..................3 Manual Mode ..........................3 Automated Mode ........................3 Remote Results Viewing ......................3 Programmatic Interface ..................4 Automatic Functions ........................ 4 Instrument State and Flow ....................... 6 Reading Barcodes ........................
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Whilst it is possible for the user to save the process configuration to a file so that they can load it later, in practice this is not used on the CloneSelect Imager. The saved processes do not contain brightness, focus and alignment settings.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATION API Programmatic Interface The CloneSelect Imager automation mechanism uses a SOAP interface to communicate with automation clients. The CloneSelect Imager software is written using Microsoft® .NET™ 3.5 framework. The SOAP interface does not use IIS, but instead uses a self contained web server.
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GENETIX > CLONESELECT IMAGER DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATION API will return True if connection was successfully made. If the instrument is busy when connection was attempted False is returned. If the listening process has not been started on the instrument an exception may be thrown.
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GENETIX > CLONESELECT IMAGER DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATION API Instrument State and Flow Instrument State Instrument Holder Started and No State No State listening Waiting Unknown process Waiting Ejected Started LoadingPlate Ejected Barcoding InsideLoaded AutoFocusing InsideLoaded Imaging InsideLoaded Call Ejecting...
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GENETIX > CLONESELECT IMAGER DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTOMATION API Reading Barcodes Both RunImagingAutomated and RunImagingAutomatedSelectedWells functions allow the way in which barcodes are used to be specified. This is controlled by the bReadBarcodes and sExpectedBarcode properties. The following table shows the how changes to these properties effects the method of barcoding that is used.
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