{"id":102,"date":"2020-06-14T11:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T10:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2020-06-14T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T20:32:28","slug":"automation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/samples\/automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>THE PROBLEM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine the following situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have a microplate reader and people need to book time slots in order to use it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The microplate reader provides you with dose-response data in Excel format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to fit the data to a sigmoidal curve and plot it, you have bought a license for some fancy proprietary software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The license is expensive and it is locked to the same PC you are using to collect the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data collection takes only 20 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, each user needs to book the machine for several hours in order to process the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most compounds are inactive, so this is a waste of user and machine time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happened to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cdca_D-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cdca_D-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cdca_D-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cdca_D-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cdca_D.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>THE SOLUTION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/pics\/microplate2svg.tar.7z\">Python 2 script<\/a> takes the raw output from the device and in a fraction of a second is able to process dozens of readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It outputs plain text CSV files and editable vectorial SVG graphs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a simple glance, you know which compounds are active and how active they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By using this simple script we saved uncountable hours of user and machine time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, software licenses became redundant.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sciting_logo_medium.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sciting_logo_medium.png 286w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sciting_logo_medium-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PROBLEM Imagine the following situation. You have a microplate reader and people need to book time slots in order to use it. The microplate reader provides you with dose-response data in Excel format. In order to fit the data to a sigmoidal curve and plot it, you have bought a license for some fancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/144"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}