Queueing Experiment (Premium Feature)

Queueing experiments is a premium feature unlocked with a premium or unlimited license.

In many situations, you may not be able to easily connect your plate reader to a computer in the environment it needs to be in for an experiment. For instance, you may have to run a kinetic experiment in an anaerobic chamber or incubator. If you want to assign a plate layout to an experiment started with a button press there are two ways you can accomplish this

  1. Add the plate layout to the experiment after the experiment is over and you’ve connected your Cerillo reader back to a computer running Labrador. This method does not store the plate layout on the device, so the layout only persists on that computer. The layout will not travel with the Cerillo reader and would have to be re-added in labrador if accessed via a different computer. See plate remapping for details on plate type changes post-experiment.

  2. Queue the experiment setup on the reader while its outside of whatever box it will be placed in. The device will store the experiment setup and then wait for a button press before actually starting the experiment. This method will store the plate type and plate layout on the device so it persists across computers accessing the experiment on that device. It also allows you to set the duration of the experiment which may be helpful in some situations.

In order to queue an experiment do the following:

  1. Update the firmware on your device to the latest. Your device must be running firmware v6.12.0 or higher for this feature to be enabled

  2. Access device settings and turn on queue experiments in labrador

  3. save device settings

  4. Click new experiment in the device page

  5. Set up the experiment, plate type and plate layout to be used for your experiment. Ensure that queue experiments switch is turned on.

  6. Click queue experiment. If the lower-right button says start instead, make sure you’ve enabled queued experiments on the device and that this experiment has the queued experiments switch in the on position

    1. If running a kinetic experiment, acknowledge the dialog and click queue now

    2. If running an endpoint experiment, choose to calibrate or queue now. If you choose queue now, you can calibrate with a button press even when the device is in a queued state.

  7. The device is now in a queued state indicated by the status light turning purple. It is ready to begin your experiment once you press the start (left) button

  8. Move your device to the experiment environment whether it be an anaerobic chamber or incubator.

  9. Power the device on. It should still be in a queued state. Allow the device to equilibrate according to its user manual - typically 1-2 hours.

  10. Start the experiment by pressing the left button on the device