Hi! Has anyone used their Tecan in a GMP environment? Currently looking to create reports post-assay but the usual .txt file that you can create with Touch Tools might not work for us. We do have the Sample Tracking software and have been thinking of ways to gather the info that is necessary. Any ideas or other possibilities are welcome. Thanks!
what information would you be looking to report ?
there is a lot of customization potential - Touchtools reports, Sample Tracking, pdf, csv etc
i’ve typically favored a more bespoke report file creation that runs dynamically to timestamp every event in sequence as it happens; rather than relying on the “end of run” creation which may not happen if the run has a problem and aborts
Right now, we have been generating the plate map file at the end of the run with some barcodes that are manually scanned and captured for that report. But things that we would like are the name of the method that was run, run start time, run end time, username, instrument serial number, samples gathered from Fluent ID, the plate barcodes that were scanned, software version, the final elution volume…? I think that’s it, would prefer a PDF file
that sounds like an extensive report which won’t be standard,
let me dig up some prior examples and give some insights
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below is example pdf file,
i took an example I had an added the fields you outlined:
- header with method name
- run start
- run end
- user
- SN
- FluentControl Version
- final elution volume
- plate barcodes as list
- sample barcodes as list
Yes! Something like this. How would I be able to have the information like this generated and then create the PDF? Of course, date would need to be in there as well since it only has the time and if the run finished to completion (Pass or fail, yes/no, etc)
I have too done some reports more elaborated than the default FC ones.
For dates and times, I have a couple of subscripts that parse the current time and date in the format I want.
To compose the report, I use several Export Variable commands to write the variables in the rows I want them to be.
I do generate them usually in csv, as we use them in downstream processes often, but I guess with some VB.net or some other script ran with the Start Application, you could print them as pdf.
See an example of a simple script that scans tubes in Fluent ID and prints the barcodes in a csv.
