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Software for writing protocols and running them on the Opentrons Flex and Opentrons OT-2
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PD: Change default ordering of blowout and touch tip commands #10653

Open skyewindsor opened 2 years ago

skyewindsor commented 2 years ago

Overview

The current default behavior places the touch tip command before the blowout command when users implement both within one transfer step. Since blowout often creates droplets on the outside of a tip, this default ordering should be reversed so that a touch tip could release the droplets back into the well.

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Qirong-Lin commented 2 years ago

Vote for this too. In my case, especially for a small amount of liquid (1~2 uL) left in the tip, P300 multi-channel pipette cannot blow out them but make the droplet attach to the outer surface of the tip, which could affect some sensitive workflow like eluting the library with small amount of buffer.