pylabrobot.bmg_labtech package#

VANTAstar#

VANTAstar

Build a VANTAstar plate reader resource.

VANTAstarDevice

The VANTAstar as a PyLabRobot resource: its plate holder, its features (drawer, absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence, shaker, temperature_controller), and the driver that runs it.

driver.master.VANTAstarDriver

Owns the VANTAstar USB connection and the command layer.

driver.master.VANTAstarStatus

The status flags of a reply (see _STATUS_FLAGS) and what the reader is doing.

driver.features.drawer.Drawer

The drawer (PlateCommand).

driver.features.absorbance.Absorbance

Absorbance measurement (RUN, MeasurementMode 2).

driver.features.fluorescence.Fluorescence

Top fluorescence intensity measurement (RUN, MeasurementMode 0), and the gain and focus adjustment and z-profiles (GainPlateCommand).

driver.features.luminescence.Luminescence

Top luminescence measurement (RUN, MeasurementMode 1).

driver.features.shaker.Shaker

The shaker (IdleMoveCommand).

driver.features.temperature_controller.TemperatureController

The temperature controller (IncubatorCommand).

MeasurementSettings

How a read reads the plate: the fields of the CLARIOstar's MeasurementSettings, with the VANTAstar's defaults and ranges.

ShakeSettings

Shaking the plate before the read: the fields of the CLARIOstar's ShakeSettings.

driver.features.measurement.MonochromatorSettings

The monochromator of one fluorescence chromatic: band edges and dichroic in nm, slit positions as the reader numbers them (excitation 3 = 1.0 mm, emission 4 = 2.0 mm, the slits BMG's filter software sets for fluorescence).

driver.features.measurement.PlateGeometry

A plate as the reader sees it, in mm: its size, the centres of its first and last well (from the plate's left and back edges), its grid, and its well size (a round well's diameter, a square well's width) and shape (0 round, 1 square, as Voyager sends them).

driver.responses.GainFocus

The result of a gain and focus adjustment (GainDataResponse).

VANTAstarZProfileResult

The z-scan of one well as the reader reports it (Fluorescence.measure_z_profile).

driver.configuration.VANTAstarConfiguration

What the reader reported about itself.

driver.errors.CommandRefusedError

The reader refused a command and answered with quit codes.

driver.errors.DeviceError

The reader reports a device error; it needs attention before it measures again.