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Creating a new batch
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carry out a test count of the current plate (see Test Measure Plate , page 53) so that you
can check the batch settings.
Plate ID
The Plate ID control on the Measure tab in the Batch Designer allows you to specify a
template for auto-incrementing plate identifiers – see
Selecting auto-incrementing plate
identifiers , page 39, for details.
Notes If you choose to use auto-incrementing plate identifiers, you will not be able to accept the
batch design until you have entered a template for the identifiers (see
Accepting the batch
design
, page 56).
If you choose to use manually entered plate identifiers, you can enter a Plate ID in the Batch
Designer, but it will be ignored when you accept the batch for measurement mode.
If you have chosen to use an imported plate list or a plate list created in aCOLyte3, the Plate
ID control will show
Dilution
Notes If you have chosen to use a CSV file or a custom plate list as the source of the plate identifiers
for use in Measurement mode (see
Using an external source for plate identifiers
, page 42), you
can include individual dilutions with each plate identifier – see the previous section, Plate ID .
If no dilution is supplied in the lists, ‘No dilution’ is assumed.
To specify the dilution to use in calculating results:
Press the Measure tab
to display the dilution controls.
The dilution controls used for Pour Plate and Spiral Plate batches are different – for details,
see:
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Spiral Plate batches
, page 50
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Pour Plate batches , on the facing page.
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