Navigate to the GLUE application on the left-hand menu of Scispot

Select Agents in the top bar of GLUE

Select Add Agent from on the left side of the screen

Choose a name for the agent you are creating and select your device's operating system to download the appropriate Java application

Select Add Agent to begin the download of the agent application

Navigate to GLUE within Scispot

Select Sources in the top bar of GLUE

Select Add Source and under Instruments, select Liquid Handler

From the instrument drop down, select the Hamilton Liquid Handler

Add a name for this instrument in the corresponding field

Select the agent created in Step 1 from the dropdown menu

Select Create Source once this information has been added

Navigate to Destinations within Scispot Glue

Select Add Destination and from Data Sources, choose Scispot Labsheets (by default, this means data will save to a file called Agent Files)

Select Scispot Labsheets and select Create Destination

Select Connections in the top bar of GLUE

Select Add Connection in the top right corner of GLUE

Define the source as the created Hamilton Liquid Handler source from Step 2

Define the destination as the created Labsheets destination from Step 3

Select Create Connection

Find the directory where your instrument is saving data on your network; If this does not exist, select a directory either on device or on network to save files coming from your Liquid Handler

This file directory is the place the Scispot Agent will monitor for live synchronization of instrument data with Scispot (configured in the following step)

Within GLUE, under the Sources tab, click on your created Liquid Handler under Instruments

Under Configuration, scroll all the way to the bottom to see the field File Watcher Path

Insert a file path into the field; This will be where the agent will watch for file additions and changes. Insert the file path to the directory that you set as the export path for files from your Liquid Handler in the previous step

Confirm your selection once you have input the appropriate path by selecting Update in the upper right hand corner of the configuration tab

The downloaded Scispot agent file from Part 1, Step 1, is a .zip file containing a Java file that is the Agent application, as well as a batch file containing the command needed to run the agent

Extract these two files from the downloaded .zip file into a directory on the device that will be used for file synchronization - this should be a device that has access to the directory configured as the file path in Part 2, Step 1

Execute the command contained in the batch file in a terminal to begin running the agent

Your agent is now running! You can make sure it is connected by returning to the GLUE application within Scispot and navigating to the Agents tab. There, your named agent will appear with a green connected logo next to its name

The File Watcher will monitor the paths specified in the configuration and sync the files dropped into the folders to Scispot.

The synced files will now appear by default in a Labsheet called Agent Files

Once you have setup your data input format and desired data output with the Scispot team, the platform will automatically run calculations and transformations on the data so that it appears in custom Labsheets and Manifests, ready to be used by your team

Now, your folder paths are monitored by the Scispot agent, and whenever any file lands there, it will be sent to Scispot.

To view the status of the connection as well as monitor what files have been synced, from GLUE select Connections and select your specific Hamilton Liquid Handler to Labsheets connection - here you can see the transaction logs of file synchronization

Navigate to the Labsheet called Agent Files within Scispot to view the uploaded raw files

After setting up your data input format and desired data output, data will now also populate in custom Labsheets with names corresponding to the file names of each data file as well as corresponding manifests containing the test layouts from your Liquid Handler!