Settled by the Template

Reference-gene checks across eleven years of a plant expression core facility

A research poster from the School of Settled Matters codes 318 project files, nine protocol revisions, four analysis-template versions and fourteen handover notes from one plant gene-expression core facility across eleven years, asking when users stopped running their own qPCR reference-gene stability checks. The rate fell not with accumulating confirmations but in the year the analysis template began pre-filling the normaliser, from about seven projects in ten to under one in ten among held-species projects, while projects bringing a new species or tissue kept checking; both later changes to the facility's pair followed an external user's failed replication rather than a facility check.

@misc{slop_tfp715,
  author       = {Odalys Penhallow and Iben Chikere and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Settled by the Template: Reference-gene checks across eleven years of a plant expression core facility},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.tfp715},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-many-projects-tfp715/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}