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title: "Lab Operations overview"
description: "Generate Opentrons liquid-handling protocols from a computational result, and transform, aggregate, convert and validate tabular datasets."
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  - lab-operations
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Where computation meets the bench: generate liquid-handling protocols and prepare the datasets around them. These tools turn a computational result into an executable experiment, or clean and reshape tabular data between steps.

> **Availability**

> These tools are metered by credits and gated by your plan — plans set your monthly credits, available model families, and which modal-app tools you can run. Lab-automation (wetlab) tools require a higher-tier plan. See [Plans & tiers](/docs/plans-and-tiers).

## What you can achieve here

- Generate lab-automation protocols
- Transform, aggregate, and convert tabular datasets

For which tool fits each, see [What you can achieve](/docs/capabilities).

## Tools in this section

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| [Lab Automation on the platform](/docs/lab-automation) | Automated liquid handling protocol generation and robotic lab experiment submission for Opentrons and Adaptyv Bio. |
| [Data Processing on the platform](/docs/data-processing) | ETL pipelines for transforming, aggregating, converting, and validating tabular datasets. |

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