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Show HN: PlatePlanner – Design Beautiful Platemaps

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Re: Show HN: PlatePlanner – Design Beautiful Platemaps

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Etheryte wrote: post #3

I'm clearly not the target audience for this, so please give me some rope here. What am I looking at and what do people use these for? What's the pain point this tool solves?

Rather than using old school 3" or 4" Petri dishes, most molecular biology is now done in miniature culture wll plates, with 96 little wells (each holding maybe 20 microliters of cells or reagents) in the form factor of about a 3x5 card. With 96 different tubes, you can run a whole experiment on a single plate, with controls and replicates. Lots of infrastructure for "reading" the plates (taking measurements of reaction, incubating at set temperture, etc.) But that raises the issue of keeping track of what went in which of the 96 wells...

Re: Show HN: PlatePlanner – Design Beautiful Platemaps

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Post by yodon »

tahoupt wrote: post #4
Etheryte wrote: post #3

I'm clearly not the target audience for this, so please give me some rope here. What am I looking at and what do people use these for? What's the pain point this tool solves?

Rather than using old school 3" or 4" Petri dishes, most molecular biology is now done in miniature culture wll plates, with 96 little wells (each holding maybe 20 microliters of cells or reagents) in the form factor of about a 3x5 card. With 96 different tubes, you can run a whole experiment on a single plate, with controls and replicates. Lots of infrastructure for "reading" the plates (taking measurements of react…

The site creator might want to read this answer and try to put some of those words into the home page text. At present, it feels like the only key word of relevance on the home page is "platemap", which might be what this is, but if the person who needs it searches for any other relevant term it looks like this page would not appear in search.

Culture? Petri? Molecular Biology? I'm not in the space, so I don't know what the relevant keywords are, I just know they aren't on that page.

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