OpenPlant Automation Protocols

Protocols

Welcome to the OpenPlant Automation Protocols. Here you will find a collection of three types of protocols, ranging three ways of interacting with your OT2 robot.

Protocol Designer protocols

Protocols made with Opentrons' protocol designer can be visualized and edited within the designer. This is the most user-friendly way to interact with the protocols.

Python protocols

OT python protocols are made to give nuanced control of robot commands to the user, be easily customisable, and integrate the benefits of working with the python environment while still enabling the potocols to be run by researchers without programming experience. See the Opentrons python API documentation for reference on the code itself.

Jupyter Notebooks

These protocols control the robot in a more granular, real-time (and incidentally hands-on) manner. While this allows for quick customization and prototyping, it also requires some understanding of python and Jupyter Notebooks to operate. Refer to our tutorial for instructions on how to set up Jupyter Notebook-control on the robot.