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tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format

English translation: tubes are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips

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English term or phrase:tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format
Selected answer:tubes are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips
Entered by: Jörgen Slet

10:33 Nov 11, 2005
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / PCR
English term or phrase: tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format
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...
Jörgen Slet
Estonia
Local time: 15:42
I'd say they are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips
Explanation:
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 :-)
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Drunya
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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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4 +2I'd say they are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips
Drunya
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Maria Chmelarova


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tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format
I'd say they are provided as one plate consisting of 12 rater loosely attached 8-tube strips


Explanation:
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 :-)

Drunya
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thank you ! They do explicitly mention cutting with scissors, BTW. For some reason, those documentation links worked only after the second mouseclick.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  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.
14 mins
  -> 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 :-)
agree  Veronica Prpic Uhing: you twist to separate
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tubes come assembled in a 96-well (8 × 12) plate format
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Explanation:
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.

If they are hinged tubes with caps they are easily removed from plate and used as individual or ....
Maybe this might help you somehow...

Maria Chmelarova
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