Protocols. Now on steroids!

[Alexandre Dufour]

Dear fellow Icy protocol addicts,

We are pleased to announce (officially) two major updates of our popular Protocols interface!

In the first update (which has been online for a few weeks now), we added a search bar on the left-hand side of the Protocols interface, letting you search for blocks based on keywords, a-la-“Icy search bar”, along with a short description of what each block does.

In the second update (which was released minutes ago), we are now adding the possibility to rename, select and copy/paste blocks. Although these may seem like minor improvements, this opens up a huge amount of possibilities:

 — Rename blocks (double-click on their name) to present a more appealing name to the end-user

 — Duplicate a block or group of blocks (with their links if any)

 — Copy a block or group of blocks from a protocol to another

 — Create an inner workflow (including loops) from a selection of blocks

 — “Break” inner workflows apart while preserving their selected content

 — … and many other use cases you will find very handy as you go along

Both of these major updates have been contributed by Ludovic Laborde (cc-ed to this email) over the course of his graduating summer project in the lab. Kudos to you Ludovic, outstanding work!

Time for you to try out these updates for yourself and give us your thoughts and feedback (and while you’re at it, don’t hesitate to give your rating online at http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/plugin/Protocols).

Happy protocol-ing!

Alexandre

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Alexandre Dufour, Ph.D.

Institut Pasteur - Bio Image Analysis Group

25, rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France

Research: http://www.bioimageanalysis.org/dufour

Software: http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org

[IcyLyd]

Oh Wow, So great, I dreamt of it and you did it... :)

Thanks you so much for having dedicated thoughts to addicted people ! :P

Lydia