[HN Gopher] Show HN: PlatePlanner - Design Beautiful Platemaps
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Show HN: PlatePlanner - Design Beautiful Platemaps
Spend less time in excel and more time doing science. Design a
platemap in seconds, share it with your team, and reuse it for
future experiments.
Author : ninjha01
Score : 8 points
Date : 2024-08-05 14:27 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (plateplanner.nitro.bio)
(TXT) w3m dump (plateplanner.nitro.bio)
| ninjha01 wrote:
| I am currently building out PlatePlanner - would love to get any
| and all feedback here or via email (nishant@nitro.bio)!
| Etheryte wrote:
| I'm clearly not the target audience for this, so please give me
| some rope here. What am I looking at and what do people use these
| for? What's the pain point this tool solves?
| tahoupt wrote:
| Rather than using old school 3" or 4" Petri dishes, most
| molecular biology is now done in miniature culture wll plates,
| with 96 little wells (each holding maybe 20 microliters of
| cells or reagents) in the form factor of about a 3x5 card. With
| 96 different tubes, you can run a whole experiment on a single
| plate, with controls and replicates. Lots of infrastructure for
| "reading" the plates (taking measurements of reaction,
| incubating at set temperture, etc.) But that raises the issue
| of keeping track of what went in which of the 96 wells...
| yodon wrote:
| The site creator might want to read this answer and try to
| put some of those words into the home page text. At present,
| it feels like the only key word of relevance on the home page
| is "platemap", which might be what this is, but if the person
| who needs it searches for any other relevant term it looks
| like this page would not appear in search.
|
| Culture? Petri? Molecular Biology? I'm not in the space, so I
| don't know what the relevant keywords are, I just know they
| aren't on that page.
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