• Receive blood tubes:

• Measure blood volume:

• Pipette whole blood (only 0.5 ml from the primary tube):

• Store whole blood:

• Spin blood tube (the residual amount of whole blood from primary tube after pipetting out 0.5 ml should be spun):

• Transfer plasma:

• Spin plasma:

• Pipette plasma (only 8 X 500 uL amount of plasma should be pipetted):

• Store plasma:

• Pipette Buffy coat:

• Store Buffy coat:

Below is the configuration file for the Double spin DNA paxgene + Whole blood + Buffy coat, cryovials workflow: