| abstract |
Method for operating a laboratory system (1) comprising a laboratory instruments (10, 10PRE, 10LD, 10AI, 10PA) for processing samples and a control unit (20) connected by a communication network (70), the method comprising the steps of: receiving and identifying a biological sample; retrieving an order list from a database, the list comprising a plurality of targets defining one or more processing steps to be carried out on the biological sample by one or more of the laboratory instruments (10, 10PRE, 10LD, 10AI, 10PA); selecting a workflow strategy; retrieving workflow acceptance criterion corresponding to the workflow strategy; the control unit (20) determining a sample workflow for processing the sample based on the workflow strategy; determining whether the sample workflow satisfies the workflow acceptance criterion; if the sample workflow does not satisfy the workflow acceptance criterion, refining workflow strategy and determining the sample workflow again until it satisfies the workflow acceptance criterion. |