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lab manager for plate maps and sequence flows
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Warn if number of physical samples doesn't match number of samples with metadata #344

Open AmandaBirmingham opened 6 years ago

AmandaBirmingham commented 6 years ago

Per Gail: Sometimes someone sends in metadata for a certain number of samples but the lab doesn't get all of them--e.g., metadata says there are 20 samples, but the lab only gets 17. The lab would like to be warned of this before they start plating those samples because they would like to wait until they get all the samples and run them all at once.

Note, however, that sometimes it is expected to get metadata for more samples than are plated, as in the case where some of the samples are for metabolomics, so either this would need to be a rather smart warning or it would need to be easily overridable.

charles-cowart commented 5 years ago

Right now it's not clear who would know beforehand that the lab is going to get only 17 out of 20 samples. Suggest fleshing out problem and solution after Full Launch. Haven't heard from the wet-lab recently that this is an issue for them.