After the most recent crisis du jour involving disappearance of a very
valuable sample from an open access automated instrument, I am wondering
if anybody has a system they would recommend for a durable label for NMR
tubes. I have seen barcode labels generated by full-featured LIMS systems
at one end of the cost scale, but if people here label their tubes at all,
it will probably be a tiny notation with a Sharpie, in no consistent
location, and varying in legibility and durability. What I would want
would be a label that reliably sticks to the tube, does not interfere with
putting the tube in a spinner turbine, sample spinning, or insertion and
retrieval by a robot.
A legible label could even help with the daily curse of automated
instruments, the monotonically increasing collection of crusty, dried up
samples that nobody ever claims.
David VanderVelde
Manager, High Resolution NMR Facility, Caltech
davidv_at_caltech.edu
Received on Wed Sep 29 2010 - 05:32:41 MST