Development of Standard Test Procedures for Quantifying Carry over from Fixed Pipetting Tips in Liquid-Handling Systems

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 369-378

  Weibel, Roland ^a   Iten, Miriam ^a   König, Iwo ^a   Beckbissinger, Rainer ^b   Benthien, Thomas ^c   Hälg, Werner ^d   Ingenhoven, Nikolaus ^d   Lehnert, Angela ^e   Oeltjen, Lars ^b   Zaborosch, Christiane ^a  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b Hamilton Bonaduz AG   (Switzerland)

^c Surface Contacts GmbH   (Germany)

^d Tecan Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

^e Sias AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

carry over; cross contamination; liquid handling; tip coating

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; CARRY OVER; CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CROSS CONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS; FLUORO-POLYMERS; FULLY INTEGRATED; HANDLING SYSTEMS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IN-VITRO; INORGANIC-ORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES; INTER-ASSAY PRECISION; LIQUID HANDLING; MODEL SUBSTANCE; PLATFORM SYSTEMS; SILICATE GLASS; SILICONE RESIN; SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES; SPECIAL APPLICATIONS; STANDARD TEST PROCEDURES; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TEST PROCEDURES; TIP COATING;

COATINGS; CONTAMINATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RESINS; ROBOTICS; SILICATES; SILICONES; SODIUM; STANDARDIZATION; TESTING; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

LIQUIDS;

FLUORESCEIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RESIN; SILICONE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; LIQUID; MATERIALS HANDLING; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROVOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; STANDARD;

EID: 77956880757     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 15402452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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