I had some requests to identify the mapping for some earlier FreeGenes.
Unfortunately the Stanford site is down so anybody having an older plate would not know what wells contain what.
Can anybody help?
Thank you,
Adrian
For any of the collections in Free Genes that were designed by OBL, Reclone and friends, you can find all of the historic maps on github:
For the other Free Genes plates, I can’t help 
Jenny
Thank you Jenny.
We looked in there already and we could not figure it out.
For instance under https://github.com/Reclone-org/Open-DNA-Collections/tree/main/Open%20Reporters%20Collection/Platemaps
We can find 4 csv files: ORC-v0_1.csv, ORC-v1_0.csv andORC-v1_1.csv.
How can we figure out which one is the correct map? There seems to be no bake date or distribution ID.
For instance this one below. It seems to have been assembled at Stanford.Is that done by OBL?
There is no additional label on the plate.
Thank you,
Adrian
Then it is the “Freegenes current distribution” of Open Reporters.
If the label said “Open Enzymes 2 Open Reporters” then it would be v0.1
This is our understanding of the switch that happened at Freegenes very early in the distribution of the kits. If you find anything that suggests it is wrong, let us know and we’ll update the information on github.
For instance this one below. It seems to have been assembled at Stanford.Is that done by OBL?
No this wasn’t assembled by OBL. The only plate my lab assembled was the one labelled as OBL early 2024 distribution and those who received also received a plate map directly from us. Before that everything was done at Stanford. so we only have the information that we rescued from the Freegenes website and transferred to github.
Jenny
Hi Jenny,
Thank you for the information. The image only says Open Reporters as you can see below so it’s probably not 0.1.
-There was another one called OpenEnzymes Open Reporters that included glycerol stocks and looked like this below. I believe there were some Google spreadsheet files that contained the maps.
On another note, I do have an old map of openenzymes corresponding to a March 2020 plate. I’m attaching here in case that might help some other people.
We probably need to do more salvaging for this info in case the Stanford site files are still available.
Maybe Keoni might still have this info.
Cheers,
Adrian
(Attachment freegenes-distribution-openenzyme_1-2020-03-26 WIth highlights.xlsx is missing)
Hi Adrian
Thanks for the photos! That is really helpful, we can add them to the github for clarity.
@YKH and Felipe Buson did take all of the plate maps/google docs from Free Genes for any of the collections my lab submitted and uploaded them to the Reclone github as csv’s, there shouldn’t be anything additional to salvage for those ones but we didn’t rescue them for all collections submitted by other labs. I think we definitely can make it less confusing regarding the versioning data in the README though!
Any Free Genes plate labelled OpenEnzymes 2 Open Reporters is the v0.1 plate map and is listed in our table in the github README as “OpenEnzymes 2 Open Reporters”.
Any Free Genes plate labelled (only) Open Reporters is this plate map and is listed in our table in the github README as v1.0 “Freegenes current distribution”.
We will update this table for clarity and include your photos, if that’s alright with you?
Thanks for sharing the Open Enzyme Collection map, we have those ones as well, linked from the Open Enzyme Collection README. In this case it is easier to tell which one people have because the original distribition came as two plates and then moved to one plate!
If you find anything else is missing, just shout and we’ll figure out if we have it, barring that then Keoni or Drew are your best bet!
Jenny