We just had our MiSeq installed about a month ago, and haven't yet sequenced anything on it. I've just been performing maintenance washes weekly to keep the fluidics system in good shape.
I just performed a Standby wash this week since the instrument has been idle for over 30 days. Now that I've done the Standby wash, is it necessary to keep doing Maintenance washes every week given that we haven't run any DNA yet on the machine? Or can we just let it go for now, until we actually start running samples? (at that point I think we'd perform a maintenance wash before running the DNA)
I just performed a Standby wash this week since the instrument has been idle for over 30 days. Now that I've done the Standby wash, is it necessary to keep doing Maintenance washes every week given that we haven't run any DNA yet on the machine? Or can we just let it go for now, until we actually start running samples? (at that point I think we'd perform a maintenance wash before running the DNA)
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