Reference project

It is now possible to create a reference project which combines multiple projects into one.

Imagine you performing long-term research and have acquired samples in batches. You don't want to wait for all the results to be available to start working on them. You can create a project for each batch and then combine them into a reference project.

By default, AutoIMS will create standard, individual projects, however, it's fairly easy to link several existing projects into a reference project.

You can accomplish this by clicking on the Add reference project... button the Actions section.

We can use the KPMP data as a example. As of writing this guide, we have collected three batches of KPMP data, acquired over the course of ~2 years. When you click on the Add reference project... button, you will be presented with a dialog where you can select the projects you want to include in the reference project. As shown below, there are several options, including negative-22-11, negative-24-02 and negative-24-05. You can select as many or as few as you want. The second option, negative-22-11_24-02_24-05 is in fact a reference project that combines all three projects together.

In order to remove a project from a reference project, you can click on the Remove reference project... button next to the project you want to remove.