I have witnessed a change in the Hampton additive screen some years ago - on purpose - the formulation simply did not work OK. So I guess there are changes occasionally.
Jan On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Chris Morris <chris.mor...@stfc.ac.uk>wrote: > HI, > > I've recently seen two examples where the description of a screen in a > local database was different to the current one on the manufacturer's web > site. This happened in two different labs, using different software, and > with different screen manufacturers. > > This could potentially lead to an optimisation screen that finds no hits, > because the wrong condition is being optimised. Does anyone have experience > of this? Am I just looking at a few one-off errors, or is there a general > problem here? > > The ideal solution is for screen manufacturers to give version numbers to > their screens. Failing that, a good fix at the laboratory is to download the > screen description every time a deep-well plate is received, and second best > would be to download it every time a trial plate is set up. If there is a > real concern here, we will implement one of these in xtalPiMS. > > Regards, > Chris > > ____________________________________________ > Chris Morris > chris.mor...@stfc.ac.uk > Tel: +44 1925 603689 Fax: +44 1925 603825 > Mobile: 07921-717915 > http://pims.instruct-fp7.eu/ > STFC, Daresbury Lab, Daresbury, Warrington, UK, WA4 4AD > > -- Jan Dohnalek, Ph.D Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Heyrovskeho nam. 2 16206 Praha 6 Czech Republic Tel: +420 296 809 390 Fax: +420 296 809 410
