Well Plate Reader - Read well plates on Icy

Description

This project contains the code necessary to import and show well plates from Opera machines.

This project has been developed as a Gradle project and can be opened with Eclipse IDE.

Available plugins

In danyfel.bigimage.io:

• WellPlateImporter

  This plugin reads the information of a well plate and then shows an interface with the available plates and their corresponding fields.

Installation

Requirements

In order to be able to work with this project you must have installed the following software:

• Icy, version 1.9.5.1 or above. ( Available here )
  • The following plugins should be already installed in order to execute BigImageTools:
    • EzPlug SDK
    • Protocols SDK
• Eclipse, version Neon or above. Make sure to have the Buildship plugin installed. (Available here)
• Icy4Eclipse plugin for Eclipse, the latest version available. Follow these instructions.

Setup

1. Use your Git repository manager of preference to download this repository (you can use Eclipse Git perspective to do this). The repository URL is https://gitlab.pasteur.fr/bia/wellPlateReader.git.
2. Make sure the environment variable ICY_HOME is set to the location of your Icy installation. Note: This could be tricky on Mac so make sure to follow these instructions.
3. Open Eclipse and select the menu File > Import... Then select Gradle > Existing Gradle Project. Click Next the project root directory is demanded select the folder WellPlateReader inside the folder you downloaded the at. Finally, click Finish to create the project in eclipse.

Eclipse will download the dependencies specified in the gradle.build file. When it finishes you should see the project without any problem on the project explorer of Eclipse. If this is not the case, check that the environment variable ICY_HOME is correctly defined.