Reducing Compound Consumption and Supporting Assay Miniaturisation
Reliable sample storage and retrieval is a vital function to drug discovery as well as basic research and diagnostics. Coordination and distribution of samples and compounds is the initial step in a cascade of subsequent actions within an experiment.
Errors in sample distribution, many of which are difficult to trace, frequently lead to inaccurate or misleading experimental results. Trouble-shooting the root cause of inaccurate data can be very time-consuming and therefore linked with high costs.
For storage of a relatively small number of samples, storage tubes and box systems with handwritten labels are frequently used. In these systems tubes are customarily labelled with indelible ink, however, the small writing area severely limits the amount of information which can be contained on the tube, and the stability of the label is not guaranteed
