Adding Patients
In addition to managing settings (chemistries, instruments, and so on) for your runs, you must manage the patients for your runs. A patient refers to an individual from whom a sample was taken. Managing patients for your runs consists of adding new patients to the Geneticist Assistant database or Customer Poral. You have three options available for adding a new patient. You can:
• Manually
add one patient at a time.
• Import a Patient batch file to add multiple patients to the database in a single step.
• Import a Submissions batch file to add multiple patients to the Customer Portal in a single step.
Moreover, if your VCF or BAM sample file names begin or end with the patient ID, then Geneticist Assistant can automatically associate the appropriate sample with the patient, or even create the patient record if needed, and then associate the sample with the record. If you are loading a standalone VCF file, then just the VCF file name must begin or end with the patient ID. If you are loading both a VCF file and a BAM file, then the names for both files must begin and/or end with the patient ID.