Analytical operation assisting device and non-transitory computer readable medium recording analytical operation assisting program

A non-transitory computer readable medium recording program for enabling a computer to communicate with an analyzing device in which a sample-containing member is to be set, and for assisting a user in analytical operations which include arranging samples in a plurality of sample-placement portions provided in the sample-containing member and sequentially implementing a plurality of protocols, wherein:

• the computer includes:
• a storage section in which analysis conditions and information concerning an order of implementation of the plurality of protocols are stored, the analysis conditions including information concerning samples to be arranged in each of the plurality of protocols and an analysis parameter;
• and
• a display unit;
• and the program is configured to make the computer function as:
• a protocol-selection-input receiver configured to receive an input of a selection of one of the plurality of protocols;
• a sample-position displayer configured to read, from the storage section, the information concerning the samples to be arranged in the protocol inputted through the protocol-selection-input receiver, and to display, on the display unit, the read information along with positions of the plurality of sample-placement portions provided in the sample-containing member;
• a protocol-implementation-information collector configured to collect, from the analyzing device, information concerning a state of implementation of the plurality of protocols;
• a determiner configured to determine whether or not a protocol which must be implemented earlier than the protocol inputted through the protocol-selection-input receiver was already implemented, based on the state of implementation of the plurality of protocols collected by the protocol-implementation-information collector and the order of implementation of the plurality of protocols stored in the storage section;
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• a batch-file creator configured to read, from the storage section, the analysis conditions corresponding to the protocol inputted through the protocol-selection-input receiver and to create a batch file for implementing the selected protocol, when it is determined by the determiner that the protocol which must be implemented earlier was already implemented.