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Canvas: The Workspace

The Canvas is an area in Rock Maker that acts as your main experiment designer. An artist starts with a blank canvas and creates his or her masterpiece; you will use a canvas to create experiments.

• How Ingredients Are Represented on the Canvas
• Canvas Views

Canvas: the Workspace

How Ingredients Are Represented on the Canvas

Ingredient representative colors

The Canvas shows 96 squares (if you are using a 96-well plate in your experiment). Each square has two small rectangles above the main center. The center represents the well. The two small rectangles represent protein drop locations.

Design view shows a graphical representation of ingredients you have added to your experiment.

Each well on the canvas contains the following graphical components:

• Drops area. Drops are represented by rectangular boxes along the top of the well. In each drop that contains ingredients, the relative volumes of the well drop volume and protein drop volume are represented by dark green and light green shading. Orange represents a drop additive.

Note: Since screens don't use proteins, the drop area is omitted.

• Well area. Below the drops is a large square box for displaying the well ingredients. The relative volume of each ingredient is indicated by shading. Each ingredient type has its own associated color, as shown in the image below.
  Hint: Click a shaded portion of the well to see which ingredient it represents. The ingredient's name will display in the Well Ingredient box on the Well Info Tab.

• pH indicator. The pH indicator is the long rectangle along the bottom of the well. When the well contains a buffer, the pH indicator will indicate the relative amounts of the stock low pH and stock high pH that were mixed to obtain the pH in the well. If no mixing of stocks occurred, the pH indicator will be completely shaded gray.

Canvas Views

You can view the canvas in several ways. Options include Design View, Images View, Ingredients View and Score View.

Different Canvas views

There are two ways to switch between views. First, you can switch between views at any time by clicking a different view button on the Viewbar:

Viewbar Canvas view button

You can also switch views once you have opened an experiment by clicking on the View tab of the Experiment contextual tab set and then selecting one view type in the Canvas Mode group.

View Type in Canvas Mode Group

Related Topics

• The Ribbon
• The Canvas
• The Viewbar
• Working with Ingredients