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title: "Tutorial - Plate Creation from Rack"
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# Tutorial - Plate Creation from Rack

## Introduction

In this tutorial, you will create plates from racks by transferring vial contents. The source racks and target plates must have the same format. Samples will be picked from all vials in the racks and put in the corresponding wells, the samples layout in the plate will correspond to the vials layout in the rack at the moment of the picking. In this tutorial, you will be guided to create 96-well plates from a set of 96-vials racks. You can of course use other plate and rack formats for this workflow.

## Prerequisite

              Required permissions and setup

              

**Sample Processing** role is required to access this workflow.

**Required system configuration:**

- Container Types: `Greiner PP96V` and `1 Dram Vial`,
- Container Usage `Inventory`,
- Solvent `DMSO`,
- Worklist Generator and Parser: `Standard (Container) (;)`,
- Location Mask: 96

Those should exist by default in Sample application.

### Items

Containers and Locations created from Discngine Sample’s automation will be used:

- racks 96 (with 80 vials 1000 uL – 10 mM).
- Location `Paris`  

Automation is running during installation if “example_dataset” is set to true in the configuration file.

## Workflow

### Job Initialization

[Create a new job](/public/docs/jobs-overview#create-a-job) and select the `Plate Creation from Rack` workflow.

### Requesting

- Set Target Plate Barcode as **Generate New Barcode**.
- Select **Greiner PP96V** as the Target Plate Type.
- Specify Request from **Text**.
- Copy and paste the rack names in the text area: **R00001:R00002:R00003:R00004:R00005** (rack names can be separated by colons or line breaks).
- Click `Add IDs` to confirm. The racks are listed in the added requests.
- Click `Next`.

### Task Requesting

- Choose Source Selection Mode = **All sources**
- Select Target Usage = **Inventory**
- Select Number of Copy = **1**
- Target Volume = **30 μl**
- Dilution = **Target**
- Dilution Mode = **Dilution Factor**
- Dilution Factor = **10**
- Buffer (Solvent) = **DMSO**
- Offset Volume = **0 %**
- Offset Solvent = **0 %**
- Click `Add Task`. 1 task is added.
- Click `Next`.

### Sourcing

The Sourcing page will confirm that the requested operations are compatible with the source batches (information in the `Sourced` column).

- Click `Next`.

### Processing

For processing, requested tasks are translated into a worklist that you can feed to your robotic equipment.

- Select the **Standard (Container) (;)** equipment and File Order **By Request**
- Click `Generate worklist`

A worklist file appears in the Worklist Generator area. It contains the requested tasks to execute. The Worklist Parser area expects a file containing the information about the tasks that were actually completed. By default, the generated file is set in the Worklist Parser. For this tutorial, we assume that every task was completed successfully so we’ll keep this default file.

- Click the `Copy Worklist` button.
- Click the `Next` button to propagate those changes in the system.  

The tasks are processed in the Sample application.

### Storing

The [Storing step](/public/docs/jobs-overview#storing) allows you to assign a location to the items involved in the job. First, for the output plates (plates created during the job).

- Click the `Assign Location to Selected` button.
- Select **Paris** and click the `Select` button to confirm your choice.
- Click the `Next` button to continue to the input racks. (Here, we won’t change the input racks' location.)
- Click the `Next` button.  

You can increment the Thawing Cycle count of the input racks if necessary.

### Pipe & Close

The [Pipe & Close step](/public/docs/jobs-overview#pipe-close) provides a summary page where you can review the job and optionally pipe it to another workflow. You can also pipe this job to another one, allowing you to immediately start a new job using the output or the input plates from this one.

For this tutorial, click the `Close & Quit` button to finish the job.