Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples
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Tracking samples - it's all about location, location, location
There are many different types of samples...but we also have a dedicated and detail-oriented lab team that works carefully to catch mistakes. Each sample...assigning a physical location to your samples, include as much detail about that location as possible. Are...sample a unique location in a specific freezer will help ensure that samples are easy to locate in freezers...also help us keep track of the tubes’ physical location in the lab. These barcodes additionally allow ...Addgene. Each sample at Addgene has four layers of location which can all be extrapolated from the 2D barcode...Plate
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Tubes are assigned a location within a plate that can hold up to 96 tubes (see...