The wet lab is reporting that study IDs are not being prepended when sample or tube identifiers are copied and pasted into cells.
Frequently, when plating, the qiita study ID is not part of the identifier. As a result, the wet lab may modify the sample information to correct the tube ID field and then attempt to replace. Or, they may copy / paste the IDs into labcontrol and then manually go cell to cell, making slight edits in order to trigger the autocomplete mechanism.
What would be pleasant is for labcontrol, if an identifier does not have an exact match to qiita metadata, attempt to determine if an exact 1-1 match can be made by prepending the qiita study ID. It would be great if this were supported when copying and pasting identifiers.
If multiple studies are being plated, it would be reasonable for labcontrol to attempt to determine if an exact match could be performed to any study that pertains to the plate. If there is an ambiguity (i.e., the same tube identifier is used in multiple studies), for the cell to be flagged / colored as to warn the user that human intervention is necessary.
This is remarked as a possible regression of #209 as the intention of that issue was in part to prepend a study ID. However, I believe #209 was scoped to entering values manually cell by cell as opposed to copying and pasting one or many cells.
charles-cowart
commented
5 years ago
The wet lab is reporting that study IDs are not being prepended when sample or tube identifiers are copied and pasted into cells.
Frequently, when plating, the qiita study ID is not part of the identifier. As a result, the wet lab may modify the sample information to correct the tube ID field and then attempt to replace. Or, they may copy / paste the IDs into labcontrol and then manually go cell to cell, making slight edits in order to trigger the autocomplete mechanism.
What would be pleasant is for labcontrol, if an identifier does not have an exact match to qiita metadata, attempt to determine if an exact 1-1 match can be made by prepending the qiita study ID. It would be great if this were supported when copying and pasting identifiers.
If multiple studies are being plated, it would be reasonable for labcontrol to attempt to determine if an exact match could be performed to any study that pertains to the plate. If there is an ambiguity (i.e., the same tube identifier is used in multiple studies), for the cell to be flagged / colored as to warn the user that human intervention is necessary.
This is remarked as a possible regression of #209 as the intention of that issue was in part to prepend a study ID. However, I believe #209 was scoped to entering values manually cell by cell as opposed to copying and pasting one or many cells.