Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format
English answer:
tubes are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips
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Jörgen Slet
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tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format
English
Science
Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
PCR
Are these tubes cast in one piece in the form of a "monolithic" plate where you can break off a row, or are they *individually assembled* into some sort of tray ?
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PuReTaq Ready-To-Go™ PCR Beads* are designed for performing standard PCR. The only additional reagents are water, template DNA and primers.
The beads are provided in either 0.5 ml or 0.2 ml tubes that are compatible with most thermal cyclers. The 0.2 ml tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format that allows individual strips of eight tubes to be easily removed. This flexibility allows use of either the entire 96-well plate, strips of eight, or individual 0.2 ml tubes.
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http://www4.amershambiosciences.com/aptrix/upp01077.nsf/Cont...
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PuReTaq Ready-To-Go™ PCR Beads* are designed for performing standard PCR. The only additional reagents are water, template DNA and primers.
The beads are provided in either 0.5 ml or 0.2 ml tubes that are compatible with most thermal cyclers. The 0.2 ml tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format that allows individual strips of eight tubes to be easily removed. This flexibility allows use of either the entire 96-well plate, strips of eight, or individual 0.2 ml tubes.
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http://www4.amershambiosciences.com/aptrix/upp01077.nsf/Cont...
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English term (edited):
tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 � 12) plate format
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I'd say they are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips
That's how I read this phrase:
"The 0.2 ml tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 x 12) plate format that allows individual strips of eight tubes to be easily removed."
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Note added at 31 mins (2005-11-11 11:05:25 GMT)
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The strips can then easily be torn away from the "mother" plate and used for multi-channel pippettes.
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Note added at 35 mins (2005-11-11 11:09:03 GMT)
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Oops, just forget my last comment: somehow I read "tips" into your tubes. But now, having realized what exactly you are talking about, I am much more certain of the single-plate design. Hell, I even used 8-tube strips for PCR myself :-)
"The 0.2 ml tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 x 12) plate format that allows individual strips of eight tubes to be easily removed."
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Note added at 31 mins (2005-11-11 11:05:25 GMT)
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The strips can then easily be torn away from the "mother" plate and used for multi-channel pippettes.
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Note added at 35 mins (2005-11-11 11:09:03 GMT)
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Oops, just forget my last comment: somehow I read "tips" into your tubes. But now, having realized what exactly you are talking about, I am much more certain of the single-plate design. Hell, I even used 8-tube strips for PCR myself :-)
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David Sirett
: Maybe cut rather than torn. Other documentation accessible from the site given by the asker shows that, at least within the 8-tube strips, tubes are connected by plastic links that can be cut with scissors.
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Did they explicitly specify the cutting? It is usually quite a bother in lab settings, particularly at the PCR bench (which should be as clean as possible) to do the cutting :-)
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Veronica Prpic Uhing
: you twist to separate
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you ! They do explicitly mention cutting with scissors, BTW. For some reason, those documentation links worked only after the second mouseclick."
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English term (edited):
tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 � 12) plate format
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From the same article just click on " Ready-TO-GORT-PCR Beads (0.2 ml hinged tube with cap). The flexibility allows use of either the entire 96-well plate, strips of eight or individual 0.2 ml tubes.
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Maybe this might help you somehow...
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