Once I refactor the internal protocol representation to allow HTML/PDF output (#58), it will become possible add images to protocols. One good application for for this would be a protocol that instructs the user to setup a plate according to a particular wellmap layout file. I already often print out wellmap layouts to go along with protocols, but this would allow the layout to actually be part of the protocol (so I couldn't just forget to print it).
This wouldn't belong in either stepwise or wellmap, so I envision making a new repository called stepwise_wellmap or something.
This does also raise the question of programmatically generating wellmap layouts, e.g. so protocols can create layouts based on the samples they know about. It might not be so hard, but in any case that's something to worry about later.
Once I refactor the internal protocol representation to allow HTML/PDF output (#58), it will become possible add images to protocols. One good application for for this would be a protocol that instructs the user to setup a plate according to a particular wellmap layout file. I already often print out wellmap layouts to go along with protocols, but this would allow the layout to actually be part of the protocol (so I couldn't just forget to print it).
This wouldn't belong in either stepwise or wellmap, so I envision making a new repository called
stepwise_wellmapor something.This does also raise the question of programmatically generating wellmap layouts, e.g. so protocols can create layouts based on the samples they know about. It might not be so hard, but in any case that's something to worry about later.