Lab sample management is the discipline of knowing, for every sample, where it is, what state it is in and who touched it last; lab sample management software is the record that makes those three questions lookups. Laboratory sample management in a small lab is usually a log book, a worksheet and a freezer map, and laboratory sample management software replaces the three with one record whose states carry dates and names. A lab sample record therefore carries the accession, the location, the state, the tests and the retention date. This page is about that record, and the free sample retention sheet on this site works how much of the lab's storage the retention rule holds from the lab's own numbers with no account.
The lab sample record
Accession number, receipt date, source, location, state, assigned tests, results, reviewer, retention date, disposal date: ten fields, and every question the lab is asked is one of them. Laboratory sample management software that keeps the ten on one screen has done the job; software that keeps them on three has kept the log book with a login.
Retention, worked
Samples a month times the retention period times vials per sample is what is held at steady state: 400 a month kept twelve months at two vials each is 4,800 samples, 9,600 vials and 119 boxes on the worked example, with 800 vials to dispose of each month. The sample retention sheet on this site works it from four figures.
Lab sample management software across a small team
Two analysts and a reviewer touch the same sample, and the record is where the hand-off lives: the state changes and the name is on it. Limslane Pro keeps the lab sample record with every state change against it at one flat price; the sheets stay free.
Questions people ask about lab sample management
What is lab sample management?
Knowing where every sample is, what state it is in and who touched it last, as a record rather than a log book. The free sheets on this site work the storage and retention figures.
What must laboratory sample management software carry?
The ten fields of the sample record on one screen: accession, receipt, source, location, state, tests, results, reviewer, retention and disposal.
How much storage does retention hold?
Samples a month times months times vials: 9,600 vials and 119 boxes on the worked example, from the free sample retention sheet.