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 workflows where the target begins in air or an aerosol. Share the environment, target, collection conditions, recovery needs, and downstream method.

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Indoor or outdoor air

Occupational monitoring

Cleanrooms

Environmental monitoring

Bioaerosols

Aerosol sampling

Airborne eDNA
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START AIR DISCOVERY

Fluid Workflow Discovery

For workflows where the starting sample is a liquid, fluid matrix, or recovered liquid from another sampling step. Share the matrix, volume, target, processing needs, and downstream method.

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Water

Biological fluids

Industrial fluids

Beverages

Recovered eluates or extracts

Wastewater

Cell culture

Process fluids

Food matrices

Consumer/formulated products
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START FLUID DISCOVERY

Surface Workflow Discovery

For workflows where the target begins on a surface or sampling material. Share the surface, collection approach, target, recovery needs, and downstream method.

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Swabs

Cleanrooms

Built environments 

Sponges

Food-contact surfaces

Wipes

Manufacturing environments

Aerospace

Equipment surfaces

Packaging
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START SURFACE DISCOVERY

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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