Is there a possibility of contaminating the fluidics station with RNase when gene expression, genotyping, and health management applications are being performed on a shared station?
It is extremely important to change the vials each time a sample is removed or loaded onto a probe array. This prevents cross-contamination as well as sample loss. RNase contamination is not an issue with gene expression applications due to the fact that the cRNA sample is fragmented prior to hybridization and is removed prior to array processing on the fluidics station.