Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples
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...Barcoded tubes come in many forms. The 2D barcode can store a lot of information in a small space and is ... treated to easily take in plasmids (transformation). Transformed bacteria are then grown up on antibiotics...received is immediately transformed and stored. Some samples need to be transformed with a micropulser using... (98.2%) transform the first time and can be stored right away.
Every week, the lab performs an average...average of 140 transformations. The lab typically transforms newly deposited samples from Monday through Wednesday...delivered by a mail courier and then the journey of transformation and storage begins. Some samples are submitted...barcoded tubes that are scanned into our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), a database we use to...