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Biologics: Assay Batches and QC

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Biologics: Assay Batches and QC

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LabKey Biologics LIMS offers a number of different ways to work with assay data in the system beyond that offered by the Sample Manager and LabKey LIMS products.

Assay Batch Fields
Assay Quality Control (QC States)

Assay Batch Fields

Click the name of an Assay Design to see it's summary page, with several tabs, showing various scopes of the data. In addition to Runs and Results, assays in Biologics LIMS may also have fields (and a tab) for Batches of runs.

Assay Quality Control

Visibility of assay data in Biologics can be controlled by setting quality control states. While an admin can edit assay designs to use QC states within the Biologics application, the actual states themselves cannot be configured in the application.

Set Up QC States (Administrator)

To configure states, an admin must:

Open the Assay Design where you want to use QC. Select Manage > Edit Design.
Confirm that the QC States checkbox is checked. If not, check it and click Finish Updating [Assay Design Name].
Use > LabKey Server > [current Biologics folder name] to switch interfaces.
Configure the available QC states in the system, using this topic: Assay QC States: Admin Guide.

Select > Manage Assays.
Click the name of your assay design.
Select QC State > Manage states.
Define the states you want to use.

Once complete, use > LabKey Biologics > [current Biologics folder name] to return to Biologics.

Use QC States (Users)

Once QC states have been configured in the system, users (with the appropriate roles) can assign those states to assay run data. Users can update QC states in the following cases:

When a user has both Reader and QC Analyst roles
When a user has either Folder-, Project-, or Site Administrator roles

To assign QC states within the Biologics application:

Navigate to the assay run view page. (Cell Viability runs are shown below.)
Select one or more runs.
Select Edit > Update QC States.

In the popup dialog, use the dropdown menu to select the QC state. This state will be applied to all of the runs selected.
Optionally add a comment.
Click Save changes.

The QC states will be reflected in the runs data grid. Admins and QC Analysts will see all of the runs, as shown below.

It should be noted that if some of the QC states are not marked as "Public Data", they will not be included in the grid when viewed by non-admin users. For example, if "Not Reviewed" were marked as not public, the reader would see only the runs in public states: