Find a well that can provide enough reagent

Given a Plate object, check if the reagent is available, and if yes, in which well. The search can be restricted to exclude the wells positioned before (in alphanumeric order) an arbitrary position, to avoid backtracking to wells already emptired.

Usage

seekReagent(object, reagent, start)

# S4 method for Plate,character,Well
seekReagent(object, reagent, start)

# S4 method for Plate,character,missing
seekReagent(object, reagent, start)

# S4 method for Echo,character,Well
seekReagent(object, reagent, start)

# S4 method for Echo,character,missing
seekReagent(object, reagent, start)

Arguments

object

A Plate object.

reagent

A reagent name.

start

A Well object (to avoid backtracking).

Value

a Well object.

See also

Other Plate functions: Plate-class, PlateTypeToWellNames(), as.character,Well-method, nextWell(), plateMap(), plateWellVolume(), randomise(), setWell(), set_block(), sourceReagent()

Examples

seekReagent(examplePlate, "buffer")
#> A03 (384-well format)