Introduction to Protocols

A protocol describe s the sequence of actions and reagents that need to be applied to a sample in order to produce an output of the required type. Protocols specify as much detail about each component as possible and they are grouped by protocol type.

Maintaining protocols in eLab helps to improve business practices through automated versioning and the creation of a direct link between tasks and protocols. This link ensures that the default reagents in tasks and the volumes of samples added to working containers correspond to those from the appropriate protocol.

Protocols are grouped by protocol types which specify an input and output sample type. For example, if you have several protocols that describe how to extract RNA from plasma you can group these protocols by creating a protocol type named RNA Extraction that takes an input of type plasma and creates an output of RNA.