Terminology

Sample: Item in a well. Could be antibody, small molecule, virus, antisense oligo, expression construct, etc.
Target: Material coated on or in an assay plate. Substance of interest that will interact with samples.
Rearray: Select random samples (hits) across a plate and place them in a new plate.
Reformat: Combine plates of one format into a higher density plate e.g. collapse four 96 well plates into a 384 well plate
Group: Combine two or more plate sets into one plate set; combine a subset of plates from a plate set into a new plate set
Format: Number of wells in a plate e.g. 96, 384, 1536.
Hit: A sample that surpasses and assay threshold.
Source: Plates from which samples are drawn.
Destination: Plates into which samples are deposited.
Plate set order The assigned order of plates within a plate set. Order is visible in the client.
Required data Data required for LIMS*Nucleus to function e.g. plate layouts, assay types, well types
Example data Fake data that can be used to test LIMS*Nucleus functionality