---
title: 'PlatePlanner: Streamlining Plate Layouts with a Python Package and Web App for LC-MS Studies and Beyond'
tags:
  - Python
  - metabolomics
  - LC-MS
  - QC

authors:
  - name: Filip Persson Ljung
    orcid: 0000-0001-7859-8047
    affiliation: 1

affiliations:
 - name: Section for Clinical Mass Spectrometry, Danish Center for Neonatal Screening, Department of Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
   index: 1

date: 5 February 2024
bibliography: paper.bib

---

# Summary
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`PlatePlanner`

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