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The Light Plate Apparatus (LPA)
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The LPA is a general purpose, customizable, user-friendly, open-source instrument for performing optogenetics and other photobiology experiments in batch and adherent cell culture systems.
Using the LPA, each well of a 24-well plate can be independently exposed to variable intensity, millisecond time-scale signals from one or two LEDs.

Table of Contents
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   :maxdepth: 1

   FAQ/faq.rst
   specifications/index.rst
   fab/index.rst
   initializing/index.rst
   using/index.rst
   contribute/index.rst


Useful Links
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  :maxdepth: 1

  links/videos.rst
  links/papers.rst


Cite the LPA
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If you use the LPA in your research, please cite the following article:
  Gerhardt, et al. `An open-hardware platform for optogenetics and photobiology <https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35363>`_. *Scientific Reports* 6 (2016)


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