Store and Retrieve

When a specimen is retrieved from a container representing an automated freezer, it is not immediately removed. Instead, a pick request is sent to the freezer. Upon receiving a retrieved/picked notification, OpenSpecimen removes the specimen from the container and logs a transfer event for the specimen.

The handling process varies based on the freezer when a specimen is stored in a container representing an automated freezer:

• Hamilton: OpenSpecimen sends a pre-register specimen barcode request to the freezer.

• Strata: No action is performed.

Once OpenSpecimen receives a stored notification from the freezer, it logs a Stored Event for the specimen.

Specimens stored in automated freezers cannot be

• Distributed

• Shipped

• Transferred to another container

• Closed or Disposed

• Deleted

• Checked out

To perform all of the above ops on the specimen, the specimen should be first retrieved from the automated freezer.