ROCK MAKER Lite

Important

ROCK MAKER Lite comes as an add-on feature within the ROCK MAKER license. Please contact support@formulatrix.com for further details.

ROCK MAKER Lite—an upgraded version of ROCK MAKER Web— provides a more secure platform to allow you to quickly and easily navigate your images and manage image scoring.

The data in ROCK MAKER and ROCK MAKER Lite are synchronized, ensuring changes made in one are reflected in the other.

Accessing ROCK MAKER Lite

To access ROCK MAKER Lite, enter the URL of your HTTP port in your browser. For example, if your HTTP port is 5000, the URL is http://localhost:5000/.

Software Overview

ROCK MAKER Lite comprises the main page and experiment page.

Main Page

• Notification Panel

  Notifies you of updates and ongoing processes.

  

  Notification Panel

• User Menu

  Displays and lets you modify your login information.

  

  User Menu

• Home Menu

  The Home menu is the landing page when you open ROCK MAKER Lite. It comprises Recently Opened and Hits Image, displaying the following.

  • Recently Opened: Files you access recently.

  • Hits Image: Latest experiments (up to 10) with hit scores.

  

  Home Menu

• Explore Menu

  Navigates you to the Projects node where you can access all your projects and folders .

  Important

  Screens, proteins, fragments, and seeds are inaccessible through ROCK MAKER Lite.

  

  Explore Menu

• Help Menu

  Navigates you to the ROCK MAKER Lite help page.

  

  Help Menu

Experiment Page

• Notification Panel

  Notifies you of updates and ongoing processes.

  

  Notification Panel

• Info Menu

  Displays the experiment information, imaging schedule, and dispensing properties.

  

  Info Menu

• Canvas Menu

  Displays your experiment’s canvas in either Image view or Score view.

  • Image: Displays drop images.

    

    Image Submenu

  • Score: Facilitates drop scoring and displays the results.

    

    Score Submenu

• Drop Menu

  Displays a full-size image of a single drop.

  

  Drop Menu

• Compare Menu

  Compares up to four drop images of the same drop but with different settings or time points.

  

  Compare Menu

• Help Menu

  Navigates you to the online help site.

  

  Help Menu

You can access various features and functionalities in your experiment page from the menu bar.

• Navigator

  The Navigator panel is accessible through the Navigator button on the top right bar. It allows you to browse plates, wells, drops, regions, imaging settings, and imaging sessions.

  

  Navigator Panel

• Image Now

  Accessible from the top bar buttons, Image Now lets you initiate an on-demand imaging session.

  

  Image Now Panel

• Tools

  The Tools panel is available in the Canvas, Drop, and Compare menus. It allows image modifications, including disabling imaging, tuning images, defining regions of interest, adding notes, scribbling, and measuring crystals.

  Note

  The settings in the Canvas menu’s Tools panel apply to the entire experiment.

  

  Tools Panel in Canvas Menu

  

  Tools Panel in Drop and Compare Menu

• Score

  The Score panel, accessible through the Score button in the top bar buttons, lets you view and assign scores to your images.

  

  Score Panel

  Each tab in the panel facilitates the following functionalities.

  • Filter: Lets you filter the score through the Filter Score dropdown, marks or unmarks images as interesting, enables or disables the auto selection of the next-well, and hides or shows auto scores.

    

    Filter Tab

  • Scores: Lets you manually score images using default scores.

    

    Scores Tab

  • Auto Score: Lets you send your inspection for auto scoring and view the results.

    

    Auto Score Tab

• Info

  The Info panel, accessible through the Info button in the top bar buttons, displays the experiment details.

  

  Info Panel

  Each tab in the Info panel offers the following functionalities.

  • Ingredient Info : Displays the ingredient information of a selected well, including ingredients in the Well tab, proteins in the Protein tab, and additives in the Additives tab.

  • Image Info : Displays the imaging schedule.

  • Plate Info : Displays information about the experiment plate, including plate ID, experiment name, dispensed date, imaging date and time, and plate location.