Compare all assays in a project

Compare the calculation results of all PLA 2.x Assay archive documents in a project with the calculation results of the corresponding migrated PLA 3.0 Quantitative response assays (bulk comparison).

Document types required for this task:
  • PLA 2.x Assay comparison document, created as a template
  • PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document

If you already created these documents with a previous version of the PLA 3.0 Migration and Archiving Toolkit, we recommend you either recreate these documents or upgrade their structure.

Important: If you upgrade the structure of a Bulk comparison document, make sure you also upgrade the structures of all referenced PLA 2.x Assay comparison documents. Not upgraded documents are skipped during the comparison process.

Procedure

  1. Log in to PLA 3.0 with your PLA administrator account.
To create the PLA 2.x Assay comparison document template:
  1. Right-click the migration root folder, and select New.
  2. In the Create a new document dialog, complete the following steps:
    1. Navigate to PLA 2.x Comparison package > PLA 2.x Assay comparison document and select 'New PLA 2.x Assay comparison document'.
    2. Select the Create as template checkbox, and then select Create.
  3. Set up the template:
    Figure 1. Setup of a PLA 2.x Assay comparison template
    1. Enter a name for the template.
    2. Leave the Migrated document reference empty.
      The migrated PLA 3.0 Quantitative response assays are detected based on the settings in the Bulk comparison document.
    3. In the Comparison settings section, define the comparison precision.
    4. Save the template.
To create the PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document:
  1. Right-click the migration root folder, and select New.
  2. In the Create a new document dialog, complete the following steps:
    1. Navigate to PLA 2.x Comparison package > PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document and select 'New PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document'.
    2. Select Create.
  3. Set up the document in the Content editor:
    Figure 2. Setup of a PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document
    1. Enter a name for the document.
    2. As the Comparison source folder, select the folder that holds the migrated PLA 3.0 Quantitative response assays.
      Tip: This can be the folder where you placed the results of the migration process or a folder that holds copies of the assays you want to compare.
    3. As the Assay comparison template, select the template you just created.
  4. Save the document.
  5. To compare the data, on the action bar, select Compare.

Result

The Dashboard of the PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document is updated with links to the PLA 2.x Assay comparison documents.
Figure 3. PLA 2.x Bulk comparison document Dashboard

What to do next

For further processing of the results, you can create a PDF report.