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Exercise 3: Opening a Plate Document
In this exercise you will be opening a template file that you will use in the following
exercises.
To open a plate document:
Step Action
1 Choose one of the following options:
♦ Click the Open button ( ) from the General toolbar, or
♦ From the File menu, select Open.
2 From the Look In text field of the Open dialog box, navigate to Program Files >
Applied Biosystems > SDS 2.0 > Templates.
3 From the File of type drop-down list, select ABI PRISM SDS Template Document
(*.sdt).
4 From the Look In text field, click the file entitled ‘384 Well RNaseP Install Plate.sdt’ to
select it.
5 Click Open.
The software opens the plate document file.
Exercise 4: Exporting Data from a Plate Document
In the following exercise, you will export the plate setup so that you can import it (see
Exercise 6). The SDS software allows you to export several components of the plate
document as tab-delimited text files, a format compatible with most spreadsheet
applications.
Note For more information on exporting setup table data using the SDS software, see
Appendix B, “Importing and Exporting Plate Document Data.”
To export the contents of the template to a setup table file:
Step Action
1 Choose one of the following options:
♦ Click the Export button ( ) from the General toolbar, or
♦ From the File menu, select Export.
2 From the Export drop-down list of the Export dialog box, select Setup Table.
3 Select the All Wells radio button.
4 Click the File name text field, and type Practice.
5 Click Export.
The software saves the plate document setup table information to a tab-delimited
text file entitled ‘Practice.txt’.
Note The software also can export the data from most of the analysis plots,
graphs, and tables. See Appendix B, “Importing and Exporting Plate Document
Data,” for more information.
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