Fig. 2From: Automation assisted anaerobic phenotyping for metabolic engineeringPreliminary decontamination protocol. a Steps to decontaminate and investigate effectiveness of the decontamination protocol. ‘n’ represents the number of washes with the disinfectant and ‘t’ represents the duration for which the disinfectant is held within the tips for each wash. b Initial decontamination test using different concentrations of sodium hypochlorite(bleach) with ‘n’ = 4 and ‘t’ = 0 and the default air-gap of the system (10 μL). Each bar represents effectiveness calculated from 24 replicatesBack to article page