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Plate Size and Unique ID

The root element of the XML data file is called <Plate...> and contains three attributes as is shown below:

<Plate id="..." rows="..." columns="...">
   ...
   ...
</Plate>

The id attribute

This attribute uniquely identifies each plate reader data set. It can be any combination of upper and lower case characters of the alphabet (`a' through `z' and `A' through `Z'), digits (`0' - `9'), the dash character (`-'), or the underscore character (`_'). No other characters are allowed in the plate ID, for example the space character (` ') or the backslash character (`$\backslash$') are not allowed.

The rows attribute

This attribute must contain a whole number that corresponds to the number of rows in the plate. Typical values are 8 or 16, but any other number of rows for a virtual plate is also acceptable.

The columns attribute

This attribute must contain a whole number that corresponds to the number of columns in the plate. Typical values are 12 or 24, but any other number of rows for a virtual plate is also acceptable.

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Petr Kuzmic | Jul 12 2008