We have got an opentrons robot and installed it and I diligently read all the API opentrons documentation and took some python courses.
Hence in principle I could write any sort of script, but of course I still have questions like what is the most intuitive and elegant ways to write scripts. For this I feel advice from more senior users would be best.
As an example I want to do concentration adjustment: i.e. I have a 96 well plate with samples of uneven concentration and I want to transfer different volumes of each sample to a corresponding plate (A1 to A1) and then top up the volume with buffer from a falcon and mix it.
I could load the volumes from a csv file
https://support.opentrons.com/s/article/Using-CSV-input-data-in-Python-protocols
like shown here and write a loop with an if statement that chooses a pipette of the more appropriate range, but should I not write a function instead? Should I try to install pandas for more efficient table manipulation and so on?
Another example of community use would be to share labware definitions.
There must be at least hundreds of opentrons users across the world. Is there a discord group perhaps that puts them in touch? If so, could you please send me an invitation to such group.
PS: I am a mass spectrometrist with years of experience in scripting and automation so I feel I would be able to contribute a lot to such community once I learn a bit more operation
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