Insights
Practical notes on lab automation, workflow design, compound management, liquid handling, and system integration.
These articles reflect recurring challenges in real laboratory environments and outline how to think about them from a system perspective.
Label placement on SBS microplates
Where a barcode is placed on a microplate is not a minor detail. In automated systems, label position determines whether a plate can be scanned at all — and whether its orientation can be reliably determined. This is a recurring source of integration problems, particularly when plates move between instruments from different vendors. The N/E/S/W […]
Read →Microplate layout design — controls, references, and well assignment
How wells are assigned on a microplate directly affects data quality, downstream analysis, and how detectable systematic errors are once they have occurred. Layout design is rarely discussed explicitly during assay development — but changing a layout after data collection has started is expensive, because it breaks comparability with everything collected before. The edge effect […]
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