automated-chromatography

Development of the automated chromatography rack. Diagnostics Accelerator / Synthetic Biology. Wyss Institute.

Requirements

• Python 3.8 - 3.10
  • (Not 3.7-, PyQt5 incompatible)
  • (not 3.11+, PySide2 incompatible)
• Qt 5.15
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Contributors

Current

• Dima Ter-Ovanesyan - dmitry.ter-ovanesyan@wyss.harvard.edu
• David Kalish - david.kalish@wyss.harvard.edu

Former

• Allen Tat - allen.tat@wyss.harvard.edu
• Adele Nikitina - adele.nikitina@wyss.harvard.edu

Folders

• The folder ./dev/ is for development and testing.
• For 8-column SEC (Octasome), go to ./SEC_GUI/ and run python octasome_gui.py. To autorun GUI from boot, see below.
• For 24-well plate washing, go to ./Wash_GUI/ and run python wash_gui.py.

Auto-run at RaspPi boot

To auto-run the GUI and disable the screensaver, edit the file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

And add these lines to the end:

@python3 /home/pi/Desktop/SEC_GUI/octasome_gui.py
@xscreensaver -no-splash

(or whatever the path to the file is on the first line)