A quick “Google” search of “Sample Tracking Forensic DNA” yields lost of research opportunities to familiarize for this. Ther are peer reviewed journal articles that cover LIMS which have components of sample tracking you can utilize as well.
Pay attention to newsworthy articles. Create a tracking system that can be computerized that would allow anyone (Other analysts, States Attorneys, Defense Attorneys, Investigating Officers) to track the evidence submitted in a case from the submission through the analysis (Submission, Serology Screening, Extraction, Quantification, Amplification and Electrophoresis). This process will include the naming convention from evidence through sample injection. You will be expected to itemize and list the items and sub-items as you move through the analysis process.
