
Rotor-Gene Q MDx CE User Manual 02/2022
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Button
Importance
Line style:
The style of the line can be modified to improve readability of graphs on black and
white printers. Certain lines can be emphasized by modifying their style. To access
this feature, click on the right-arrow button next to the
Edit
button.
Pressing “
Edit
” opens the color selector. Multiple rows can be selected when
assigning a color to tubes.
Click “
Reset Default
” to reset all selected color cells back to their default color values.
“
Gradient
” allows a gradient to be chosen from the first to the last selected
color. Several gradients can be defined in a sample setup.
The
New
icon clears the
Edit Samples
window in preparation for data entry.
The
Open
icon brings up a dialog box in which a Rotor-Gene Q MDx file can
be selected to import.
Note
: The number of samples in the open window and the file being imported
must match.
The
Save
icon brings up a dialog box in which the name and folder can be
entered in which a copy of the current sample definitions will be saved.
The
Copy
icon copies the selected cells.
The
Paste
icon pastes cells that had been selected with the copy command
into the currently selected position on the grid.
The
Excel
icon brings up a dialog box that prompts for a file name and folder
in which to save the sample information. After pressing
Save
, the Excel file is
opened automatically.
The
Append/Overwrite
icon changes the editing of cells in the
Edit Samples
window. If overwrite is selected, existing data is overwritten when editing. If
append is selected, new data is added to the end of existing data when
editing.
Sample Types:
Samples can be defined as one of several types, listed in the following table.
Sample type
Description
None
No sample in that position
NTC
No template control
Negative Control
Negative control
Positive Control
Positive control
Unknown
Unknown sample to be analyzed
Standard
Standard values are used to construct a standard curve to
calculate unknown sample concentrations
Calibrator (RQ)
A calibrator is assigned a value of 1 and all other sample
concentrations are calculated relative to this sample