Welcome to Catalight!

The purpose of this project is to share tools developed in the Dionne Lab at Stanford University for automating photocatalysis experiments and data analysis.

If your experimental setup looks anything like this:

D-Lab Hardware Configuration

You might be able to take advantage of our code base to accelerate your experiments!!

Don’t have this exact configuration? We’ve designed catalight with modularity in mind. We want to enable interested labs to develop their own equipment drivers to plug into catalight and reuse as much of our code as possible. Please visit the Development Guide for more information about customizing catalight for your applications!

Introduction:

• Welcome to Catalight!
  • Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Limitations
• Installation instructions

User Guide:

• How it works
• Usage
  • Scripting
  • Graphical user interface
• Equipment specific guides
  • Alicat MFCs
  • Harrick Heater/Watlow
  • ThorLabs Laser Diode Driver
  • Power meter
  • SRI Gas chromatograph
• Data analysis
  • The main toolboxes
    • analysis.plotting
    • analysis.user_inputs
      • Selecting data
      • Plotting instructions
    • analysis.tools
  • The GCData class
  • Helper scripts
  • Running a calibration
    • Calibration File Details
• Auxiliary tools
  • Laser calibration
  • GC delay measurement
  • Pressure drop measurement
  • MFC port connection tester
  • Heater performance measurements

Development Guide:

• Providing feedback
• Developing equipment drivers
  • My equipment doesn’t have a Python API
• Creating new experiment types
• Making changes to the GUI
  • Function
  • Style
• Areas for future development
• Writing documentation

Examples:

• Examples
  • More Scripted Study Control Examples

Documentation:

• API
  • catalight
    • catalight.analysis
      • catalight.analysis.chromatogram_scanner_gui
        • catalight.analysis.chromatogram_scanner_gui.MainWindow
      • catalight.analysis.gcdata
        • catalight.analysis.gcdata.GCData
      • catalight.analysis.make_empty_cal_expt
        • catalight.analysis.make_empty_cal_expt.main
      • catalight.analysis.plotting
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.multiplot_X_and_S
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.multiplot_X_vs_S
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.open_pickled_fig
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.plot_X_and_S
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.plot_expt_summary
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.plot_ppm
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.plot_run_num
        • catalight.analysis.plotting.set_plot_style
      • catalight.analysis.run_calibration
        • catalight.analysis.run_calibration.get_user_inputs
        • catalight.analysis.run_calibration.main
      • catalight.analysis.run_change_xdata
        • catalight.analysis.run_change_xdata.get_user_inputs
        • catalight.analysis.run_change_xdata.main
      • catalight.analysis.run_initial_analysis
        • catalight.analysis.run_initial_analysis.get_user_inputs
        • catalight.analysis.run_initial_analysis.main
      • catalight.analysis.run_plot_chromatograms_stacked
        • catalight.analysis.run_plot_chromatograms_stacked.get_user_inputs
        • catalight.analysis.run_plot_chromatograms_stacked.main
      • catalight.analysis.run_plot_comparison
        • catalight.analysis.run_plot_comparison.get_user_inputs
        • catalight.analysis.run_plot_comparison.main
      • catalight.analysis.tools
        • catalight.analysis.tools.analyze_cal_data
        • catalight.analysis.tools.build_results_dict
        • catalight.analysis.tools.calculate_X_and_S
        • catalight.analysis.tools.convert_index
        • catalight.analysis.tools.get_bool
        • catalight.analysis.tools.get_run_number
        • catalight.analysis.tools.get_timepassed
        • catalight.analysis.tools.list_expt_obj
        • catalight.analysis.tools.list_matching_files
        • catalight.analysis.tools.load_results
        • catalight.analysis.tools.run_analysis
      • catalight.analysis.user_inputs
        • catalight.analysis.user_inputs.DataExtractor
        • catalight.analysis.user_inputs.DirectorySelector
        • catalight.analysis.user_inputs.MyDelegate
        • catalight.analysis.user_inputs.Option
        • catalight.analysis.user_inputs.PlotOptionList
        • catalight.analysis.user_inputs.PlotOptionsDialog
    • catalight.catalight_GUI
      • catalight.catalight_GUI.setup_style
      • catalight.catalight_GUI.EmittingStream
      • catalight.catalight_GUI.MainWindow
      • catalight.catalight_GUI.Worker
      • catalight.catalight_GUI.WorkerSignal
    • catalight.equipment
      • catalight.equipment.alicat_connection_tester
      • catalight.equipment.experiment_control
        • catalight.equipment.experiment_control.Experiment
      • catalight.equipment.gas_control
        • catalight.equipment.gas_control.alicat
        • catalight.equipment.gas_control.template
      • catalight.equipment.gc_control
        • catalight.equipment.gc_control.peaksimple_control_demo
        • catalight.equipment.gc_control.sri_gc
        • catalight.equipment.gc_control.template
      • catalight.equipment.gc_delay_tester
        • catalight.equipment.gc_delay_tester.main
      • catalight.equipment.heating
        • catalight.equipment.heating.template
        • catalight.equipment.heating.watlow
      • catalight.equipment.light_sources
        • catalight.equipment.light_sources.diode_control
        • catalight.equipment.light_sources.template
      • catalight.equipment.power_meter
        • catalight.equipment.power_meter.newport
      • catalight.equipment.run_diode_calibration
        • catalight.equipment.run_diode_calibration.main
• Tests

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page