Workflow Discovery

Start With Your Sample. Help Us Understand Your Workflow.

Successful sample preparation and application development begin with understanding the sample, the target, the technical objective, and what the downstream method needs.

InnovaPrep® Workflow Discovery helps us understand the variables that may influence collection, recovery, processability, concentration, evaluation, and downstream compatibility—before trying to fit an application into a particular product or protocol.

Choose the Discovery path that best matches what you are trying to accomplish.

Choose Your Discovery Path

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For sample-preparation workflows, start with where the target or sample begins. Choose Air, Surface, or Fluid.

Some projects may involve specialized technical or evaluation objectives. If none of the current paths describes your need, contact InnovaPrep and we can help determine the appropriate starting point.

Air Workflow Discovery

For Targets Collected From Air or Aerosols

Share the environment, target, collection conditions, recovery needs, and downstream method so we can help define the right starting workflow.

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Bioaerosols

Indoor air monitoring

Airborne eDNA

Infectious disease surveillance

Cleanrooms & controlled environments

Environmental air monitoring

Occupational exposure monitoring

Outdoor air & biodiversity

Aerosol research & method development

Facility & built-environment monitoring
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Fluid Workflow Discovery

For Liquid Samples & Recovered Liquid Fractions

Share the matrix, volume, target, processing needs, and downstream method so we can help define the right concentration and recovery approach.

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Water

Wastewater

Biological fluids

Food & beverage matrices

Cell culture & bioprocess fluids

Environmental waters

Industrial & process fluids

Recovered eluates & extracts

Consumer & formulated products

Research & emerging matrices
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Surface Workflow Discovery

For Targets Collected From Surfaces or Sampling Materials

Share the surface, collection approach, target, recovery needs, and downstream method so we can help define the path from collection to analysis.

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Swabs

Wipes & large-area sampling

Cleanrooms & controlled environments

Manufacturing environments

Built environments

Equipment surfaces

Food-contact surfaces

Sponges & sampling materials

Packaging & product-contact surfaces

Aerospace & specialized environments
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Have a Specialized Evaluation or Testing Need?

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Some projects are defined more by the evaluation objective than by the starting sample—for example, aerosol generation, challenge testing, method development, comparative testing, or system evaluation.

Contact InnovaPrep to discuss the application.

DISCUSS YOUR APPLICATION

What Workflow Discovery Helps Define

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No single sample preparation or evaluation approach is optimal for every matrix, target, test objective, or analytical method.

Workflow Discovery helps organize the information needed to understand the starting conditions and define an appropriate path toward the desired technical outcome.

Discovery may help define:

Where the target begins and where the Target-Bearing Fraction™ may reside

Sample volume, air volume, surface area, or test scale that should be represented

What the customer ultimately needs the result to demonstrate or support

Throughput, timing, laboratory, or field-use constraints

Existing collection, preparation, conditioning, clarification, concentration, or recovery steps

Matrix, environmental, formulation, or sample characteristics that may affect the workflow

Target or target class

Expected target level or abundance where relevant

Target characteristics that need to be preserved

Potential target losses or useful secondary fractions

Desired recovery or concentration objective

Downstream analytical method

The objective is to understand what needs to be preserved, what may need to be managed, and what the resulting sample or workflow needs to do.

What Happens After You Submit

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Your Workflow Discovery information gives the InnovaPrep team a more complete starting point for technical support, workflow development, and application discussions.

Depending on the application, the information may help us:

Direct you to an existing protocol, application note, scientific publication, or other relevant resource

Recommend an appropriate starting workflow or product configuration

Identify sample or workflow variables that deserve additional consideration

Suggest parameters or conditions to evaluate during method development

Prepare for a more productive technical discussion, demonstration, or application evaluation

Identify targeted follow-up questions where additional information would be useful

For established applications, the path may be relatively straightforward. For new or highly application-specific workflows, Workflow Discovery can help identify what should be evaluated experimentally rather than assuming that a fixed protocol already exists.

Not Sure Which Sample Path to Use?

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For sample-preparation Workflow Discovery, choose the pathway based on where the target begins:

Air — the target is initially being collected from air or an aerosol.

Surface — the target is initially associated with a surface, material, swab, wipe, sponge, or other surface-sampling device.

Fluid — the starting sample is already a liquid or fluid matrix.

Some workflows naturally cross these boundaries. An airborne target may be collected onto a filter and later recovered into liquid. A surface target may move from a wipe into an extraction fluid.

In those cases, choose the pathway that describes the initial sampling or collection environment and describe the subsequent workflow during Discovery.

If your project is defined primarily by a specialized evaluation or testing objective rather than one of these starting sample types, contact InnovaPrep.

Start With the Need. Build the Right Workflow.

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Workflow development begins by understanding what you are trying to recover, measure, evaluate, or accomplish—and what the downstream method or test requires.

The better we understand those variables, the better we can help identify a practical starting point.

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