The disclosure provides a system and method to safely and efficiently store and transport process tubes in a carrier tray comprising prior to and during amplification of nucleotides in the process tubes. The process tube disclosed includes a securement region having an annular ledge, a neck, and a protrusion. The securement region of the process tube can secure the process tube in a port of the carrier tray, but still allows the process tube to adjust or float in order to align the process tube into a rigid heater well of a thermal cycler.

A computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes processor executable code for an integration tracking engine. The processor executable code is stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor executable code is executed by a processor to cause the integration tracking engine to receive a scan of a code on a vial containing a sample. The code at least identifying a user profile associated to the sample and the vial. The integration tracking engine also automatically assigns a position for the vial within a plate map for a plate well, provides the position through a user interface to guide placement of the vial within the plate well, and associates sample data corresponding to the vial and the position within the plate well to a user profile to enable continuous tacking of the sample.

According to one or more embodiments, a computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes processor executable code for an integration tracking engine. The processor executable code is stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor executable code is executed by at least one processor to cause the integration tracking engine to detect and scan a bar or quick response (QR) code corresponding to a user profile, load an order for the user profile; generate and present at least one user interface instructing a collecting of a sample within a vial of a test kit and scanning of a bar or QR code of the vial once filled with the sample, and associate the vial with the order, the user profile, and the vial.

A computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes processor executable code for an integration tracking engine that registers vials to record an identity of a user handling the vials and automatically records an identity of a second user in response to receiving corresponding scans of the vials during packaging of the vials into a shipping parcel. The integration tracking engine also automatically records an identity of a third user in response to receiving corresponding scans of the vials during an unpacking of the vials into from the shipping parcel into a plate well and an identity of a forth user in response to receiving corresponding scans of the vials during testing of the samples in the vials. The recording of the identities of the first and second users establishes and progresses a chain of custody for the vials.

A computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes processor executable code for an integration tracking engine. The processor executable code is stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor executable code is executed by at least one processor to cause the integration tracking engine to determine whether a user had a positive test with respect to an order, provide notifications to the user indicating that a test was positive when the integration tracking engine determines that the user had the positive test with respect to the order, send an alert to a back-end system to cause a contact tracing operation with respect to the user, and trigger a perimeter management flagging the user as unable to enter facilities.

A container for a specimen includes a container configured to receive a specimen for evaluation, a first label disposed on the container and having identifying information, and a second label disposed on the container so as to entirely cover at least all perimeter edges of the first label. The second label includes a viewing portion that allows for evaluation of the specimen and an identification portion configured to receive identifying information. Methods for using the container for a specimen are also disclosed.

A method of reading machine-readable marks on a movable support and object of a sample instrument. The method includes capturing a first image of the moveable support as the moveable support moves from a first position to a second position using an image capture device; determining whether a first fiducial machine-readable mark on the moveable support is in the first image; determining, when the first fiducial machine-readable mark is in the first image, whether a first machine-readable mark on a first object coupled to the moveable support is in the first image at a predetermined position relative to the first fiducial machine-readable mark; and associating information decoded from the first machine-readable mark on the first object with a first location on the moveable support associated with the first fiducial machine-readable mark.

A cartridge for polymerase chain reaction, PCR, comprises a vessel for PCR having an opening and a resealable membrane arranged, in use, to cover the opening of the vessel such that the opening of the vessel is vapour tight.

An automatic nucleic acid detection system and a method thereof are disclosed. The automatic nucleic acid detection method includes: performing, by an automatic control subsystem, on a nucleic acid extraction machine platform, a nucleic acid extraction on one or more specimens in a sample tray to generate one or more corresponding nucleic acids in the sample tray; distributing, by the automatic control subsystem, on a nucleic acid distribution machine platform, the nucleic acid in each hole of the sample tray and a first reagent into a plurality of holes of a detection tray, wherein the number of holes of the detection tray is greater than that of the sample tray; and performing, by the automatic control subsystem, on a nucleic acid detection machine platform, a nucleic acid detection on the detection tray.

A sample rack that has at least one axially extended receptacle for a sample tube (30). The sample rack has a code arrangement on its outside. This code arrangement contains information regarding the position of the at least one receptacle as well as information regarding the total number of receptacles and/or the dimension of the sample rack. A sample carrier system (1) is further provided that has a sample carrier with at least one sample rack receptacle and a set of sample racks. The sample rack receptacle and the sample racks have interacting mechanisms which characterize their affiliation.