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Getting Started

  • Computer Considerations
  • Computer Power Configuration
  • Software Installation
  • Launching Navigate
  • Configuring Navigate
  • Acquiring Data
  • Smart Acquisition Routines

User Guide

  • Supported Hardware
  • Supported File Formats
  • User Interface Walkthrough
  • Setting Up a Microscope
  • Acquiring Data
  • Case Studies

Development

  • Contributing Guidelines
  • Developer Install
  • Software Architecture
  • Developer Architecture Concepts
  • Feature Container
  • REST API
  • Plugin Architecture
  • Adding New Hardware

Troubleshooting & Known Issues

  • Troubleshooting
  • Known Issues

Plugins

  • navigate Plugin Template
  • navigate Confocal Projection
  • navigate at Scale
  • navigate Constant Velocity Acquisition
  • navigate MMCore
  • navigate ilastik Server
  • navigate Photoactivation

Reference

  • Implemented Microscopes
  • Software API
    • navigate.config
      • navigate.config.config
      • navigate.config.configuration_database
      • navigate.config.configuration_schema
      • navigate.config.device_refs
      • navigate.config.device_schema
      • navigate.config.gui_settings
      • navigate.config.preload
      • navigate.config.preload_rules
        • navigate.config.preload_rules.configuration
        • navigate.config.preload_rules.experiment
        • navigate.config.preload_rules.gui
        • navigate.config.preload_rules.positions
        • navigate.config.preload_rules.waveform
    • navigate.controller
    • navigate.controller.configurator
    • navigate.log_files
    • navigate.model
    • navigate.tools
    • navigate.view
navigate
  • Software API
  • navigate.config
  • navigate.config.preload_rules
  • navigate.config.preload_rules.experiment
  • navigate.config.preload_rules.experiment.ensure_experiment_root
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navigate.config.preload_rules.experiment.ensure_experiment_root

navigate.config.preload_rules.experiment.ensure_experiment_root(context: PreloadContext) → None

Ensure the experiment section is a shared dictionary.

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