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An email from a recent addition to the growing SeqGen family of customers reminded me of a topic near and dear to my heart – third party service providers! I wish I had a nickel for every time I have responded to this question list or similar renditions of it. If you’ve been lucky enough to receive “the list”, I would like to take a moment to address many people’s concerns.
With the onset of Spring this year, I decided that is was time to clean out my closet. I think I literally have clothing in there from high school! You can believe me when I say that was a LONG time ago.
In the same way – it may be time to do some Spring-cleaning in your laboratory. Unlike my closet, which can survive many decades of grossly outdated fashion, your sequencer or PCR machine requires a good tune-up every year. Do the pictures above look all too familiar?
During the month of June, SeqGen was hired to send an engineer to Uganda. While we are an international company, this is our first experience dispatching onto the African continent. Aaron checked and rechecked what he planned to bring with him, knowing that he would have less than a week to complete the tasks at hand and no time to have additional parts shipped to him.
He had to wait 10 days for the yellow fever vaccine to become effective and also needed to obtain the appropriate visa. “Why?” you may ask, were we going to Uganda? Interestingly enough, we were hired to repair four ABI Prism 377 DNA Sequencers. While at first glance this seems like a daunting task, it is all in a day’s work for one of SeqGen’s engineers.
This past school year my son’s high school robotics team made it to the divisional finals of the World Robotics Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. Robots from all over the world competed and were designed to stack plastic tote bins and trashcans in the fastest, most efficient way possible. The thrill of victory was sweet, yet the agony of defeat was felt when a robot arm fell off, or the robot malfunctioned causing the match to be lost.
I hate moving! That being said, I have made three major cross-state or cross- country moves in the last 10 years. All that planning, packing, loading, unloading, and then unpacking just wears a person out.
As difficult as it is to move a household, moving a lab presents an entirely different set of challenges. Workflow must be halted and many times, revenue streams have to be put on hold until the machines are back up and running. This means the move must be completed as expediently as possible, with little room for error.
When Your Machine Takes a Vacation
After three years it is finally time for a vacation! Yes – the teen and I are headed for some relaxation on the beach before all the pandemonium begins in the fall.
Judging from the number of “Out of Office” replies we are receiving these days, it seems that many of you are enjoying some well-deserved time off too.
If this is the case, don’t forget to also give your sequencer, PCR, or qPCR machine the proper vacation it needs.
While on vacation last week, I had the opportunity to rent a 2015 Ford Expedition, which, believe it or not, reminded me of a recent service visit we performed! Now I am most definitely not a car person and personally drive an older hybrid, so I have to say I was most impressed by all the new features this SUV offered.
There was one feature however that I could have done without – the smart key! The key had a top speed programmed into it, would constantly alarm when the vehicle’s speed approached that user defined limit, and would actually stop the car from accelerating past that set point. Thankfully we were given two keys and I had to make sure NOT to use the “smart” key.
Do you remember what you were doing on December 31, 1999? If you bought into the conspiracy theory drama, you were stockpiling food and water stores, emptying your banks accounts to store under a remote mattress, as well as confirming that your storage closets were completely filled with extra batteries, candles, backpacks, firearms, and fuel reserves. We all waited with apocalyptic expectation as the countdown to midnight began. And then… nothing happened!
