Cross contamination from human error can lead to complete data loss from precious samples or – depending on the assay and analysis – may lead to a falsely assumed mutation!
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Fight the invisible foes in Genomics assay set up.
If you are using handheld pipettes in genomics assays, you may be losing a war you did not even know you are fighting.
From: Smith, David John. Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Pratical Methods for Engineers. 8th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011. Human Error Rate Table