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"Cherry Picker" for small molecules

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Project Overview

Develop a device to guide a micropipette user in the transfer of small volumes of compounds between 384-well micro-titer plates. The device will increase the efficiency of transfers and reduce user error.

Keck-UWCCC Small Molecule Screening Facility



Snapshots of some of the equipment in the UWCCC Small Molecule Screening Facility Lab.

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Project Status

Finished for the Semester. Check out our Final Paper and Poster presentation to see how much we accomplished this semester.



A snapshot of TEAM CHERRY PICKER.



Prototype testing.



Team Cherry Picker looking professional at our final poster presentation.



Opening Frames of our program.



Entering Sample Columns and Rows.



Output screen corresponding to user input for rows and columsn.



Progress Report Archive.

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Project Timeline

Week Reporting Period Beginning Activities
1 January 23 Formed team, selected project, contacted client
2 January 30 Met with client and researched problem
3 February 6 Continued research and developed PDS
4 February 13 Brainstorming and refining PDS
5 February 20 Brainstorming and evaluating three top designs
6 February 27 Worked on Presentation
7 March 5 Powerpoint Presentation and worked on Midsemester Paper
8 March 12 Midsemester Paper and notebooks to be turned in
9 March 19 Spring Break!
10 March 26 Pursue options to decide on final design.
11 April 2 Research programming types to decide on the best one to work in.
12 April 9 Start programming in Java, and building prototype
13 April 16 Programming in Java, and building prototype
14 April 23 Poster presentation
15 April 30 Final paper due.

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Presentations and Reports

doc icon Contact Sheet (Feb 19 2004, 28 kb)
doc icon PDS (Feb 20 2004, 28 kb)
ppt icon Midsemester presentation (Mar 8 2004, 1412 kb)
doc icon Midsemester Paper (Mar 12 2004, 2175 kb)
ppt icon Poster Presentation (Apr 30 2004, 5585 kb)
doc icon End of Semester Paper (May 5 2004, 4776 kb)

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Contact Information

Project Team

Project Advisor and Client

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Created: Feb 10 2004
Content updated: May 5 2004

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