The Applied Biosystems 3730 Series DNA Analyzer utilizes an Oracle database to store raw data generated by the system. Additionally, sample files extracted from the database are created on the hard drive. Routine maintenance must be performed to ensure that the appropriate database and hard drive space is available for new data; otherwise, new runs cannot be started and error messages will be generated. The "Cleanup Processed Plates" command in the Database Manager pane will allow you to delete all processed run data and processed plate records from the database. Before running this utility, ensure that all runs have been extracted from the database.
This utility does not delete:
- Data files that have already been extracted
- Spectral data and Spectral plate records
- Spatial information
Thermo Fisher Scientific recommends that this procedure be performed every 400–600 runs. If the database gets too full, an error message will advise the database cleanup. Extracted data (typically in the E drive) will also build-up over time and should be archived off of the computer workstation. After archiving, the extracted data should be deleted.
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