Sample Aliquoting

Overview

An aliquot is a type of sub-sample that is taken or extracted from an original sample.

It is always tedious to document the sample aliquoting process in a LIMS. Labii made it easy with the Sample Aliquoting widget.

The widget enables you:

1. Create sample records for the number of aliquots in bulk.
2. Manage the list of aliquots.
3. Create consumptions for the sample to tracking the usage

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Requirements

This widget relies on other configuration, please make sure these configurations in place to make it work:

The below 2 tables are needed. They can be created by using a table type. If your organization is created using the Inventory application, these tables will be created directly.

• samples
  • source_samples
  • volume_value
• consumptions
  • source
  • amount

Configure aliquoting

Before start creating the aliquots, a few settings need to be configured first:

• Column [Source samples] - Select the column that defines the Source samples. The created aliquots will be linked to the sample from this column.
• Column [Volume Value] - Select the column that defines the Volume Value. The volume value will be assigned to this column and the total volume will be subtracted from the parent sample.
• Number of aliquots - The number of aliquots to create
• Aliquot volume value - The volume for each aliquot. If different volume needs for many batches of aliquots, update this value to recreate the aliquots.
• Table [Consumptions] - Configure the consumption table. If this table is not selected, the configuration table will not be created.
• Consumption column [Source] - Select the column that defines the Source of the consumption.
• Consumption column [Amount] - Select the column that defines the Amount of the consumption.

Create aliquots

Click the Create x Aliquots button to create aliquots. Once clicked, a progress bar will show you creating progress. The aliquot will be named after the sample by appending "(aliquot x)".

You can click the button again to create a second batch.

Please note the log will be documented at the bottom of the widget.

Manage aliquots

A list of aliquots will be displayed once created. By default, only 10 aliquots will be displayed, you can click the Load More to load a second page. You can also click the List View button to manage the aliquots in the list view.

Checkout aliquots

To check out aliquots, change the is_consumed to True

The consumptions

The widget will also create consumption for you. Consumption indicates how the sample is used. The experiment field of consumption will remain empty.