Re: [DIYbio] Opentrons OT-2 release

Antha is nice. I haven't even dabbled, but I got the tour once from the developers (who are great people, by the way). Last time I saw it, it was very similar to a declarative DSL of Go, and could be extended easily enough using Go. This means that for coders who want to add device support they can use low-level manual memory management, but for coders who want to add features for defining experiments etc., they don't need to worry about memory management as Go handles that using a GC. The Go syntax is relatively easy to learn, also; it's not Python, but it's minimal enough to make up for it.

The overarching idea with Antha was not only to be a driver software suite for hardware, but to be an experimental definition language. So you could say "assuming a device to do operations X,Y,Z, conduct an experiment with an 80:20 split of tests to controls that does X then Y then Z".. and in theory you wouldn't even need to define specific volumes or plate formats at time-of-writing, you'd define what you had available for each device at runtime and Antha would figure out how to string that together.

The developers, Synthace, use it in production and last time I heard they were doing great. So Antha ought to be well-supported for a long time hence, and it's GPL licensed so it can outlive them in the worst case.

June 28, 2018 4:00 PM, "John Griessen" <john@industromatic.com> wrote:

> On 06/28/2018 01:30 AM, Michael Crone wrote:
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>> Antha removes the vendor "lock-in" that you are talking about and allows for cross-platform
>> workflows
>
> OK. I'll read about antha.
> Maybe it will trigger me to develop an inexpensive microplate conveyor system and "forklift arm"
> microplate handler.
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