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How-to: Submit Workflowable Containers and Items to a LIMs Experiment

Issue:

How to add 96 well plate to a new experiment?

While working in a workflow chain, user updated two starting-point workflows to accept 96 well plates, but cannot add them when creating a new experiment, either with an individual workflow or an entire workflow chain

Solution:

Only existing Containers can be submitted to an Experiment, either created through the Locations app or a pipeline integration

  • One option is to create a Smartsheet integration to ingest plates, and the samples in those plates, and then submitted those to an experiment chain

  • A second option would be to use a pipeline at the end of a workflow to create and fill plates based on the number of samples in the first workflow, and then utilize workflowable containers for the remaining workflows

  • Lastly, simply creating the Containers in the Locations app first, then submitting them to the experiment (as described in bullet point one (1) above) is an option - this depends on the scale and user experience expected