[Histonet] Sample retention policy and tracking

[Igor]

Hello fellow histonetters,

I wanted to pick your minds with the following 2 questions pertaining to
storing and trackingsamples in the research environment :

1. How do you track samples that you store long term? As far as slides and
cassettes go, it makes sense that a lot of people use barcodes.  Does
anyone also store and track cell lines? How do you track them?

2. Do you have a sample retention policy for slides, cassettes, clinical
samples and for cell lines?? If you do not mind sharing some details on how
long you keep each kind of sample,  I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance!

Igor Deyneko
Scientific Operations Manager
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research