Screening sample management

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The management of this screening workload distributed across multiple workstations can be rather labor-intensive and error prone without appropriate sample and data management tools. This places a large resource burden on screeners who could otherwise spend their time on higher-value activities such as more rigorous data evaluation. 

Quality control — Also known as QC, these activities verify product quality before delivery to customers. Compound management for HTS, in a sense, manufactures sample plates for screening and it is necessary to establish rigorous QC to ensure the quality of deliverables before they are delivered. A few examples would be checking for missing wells in assay plates (as shown in Figure 12.8), inspection of plate orientations, and examinations of barcode clarity among other reviews. 

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