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+# 96-Well_Plate_Data_Wrangler
+This R script reformats 96-well plate luciferase assay results for ease of statistical comparison
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+If each of the twelve columns of your 96-well plate represent 8 replicates from a given sample, this short R script will reformat the proprietary plate-reader data format to two columns of data: one for your assay measurements and one for your sample labels
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+In order to use this script, you need to have the readxl and reshape2 packages installed.
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+Additionally, you will need to specify the location of your initial assay file in the wellPlate variable (line 20) and your preferred output location in write.table (line 29).