System and method for quality control of a shipped neural cell culture on a microelectrode array

The present invention provides a system and method for providing and using quality control information pertaining to a cell culture. The system includes a chamber ( 106 ) containing the cell culture ( 104 ) and a unique identifier ( 116 ) disposed on the chamber ( 106 ) corresponding to a data file ( 114 ) containing the quality control information pertaining to the cell culture before an event. One method includes obtaining quality control information from the microelectrode array before the event ( 132 ), storing the quality control information in a data file ( 134 ), associating a unique identifier with the microelectrode array that corresponds to the data file ( 136 ), and providing access to the data file via the unique identifier after the event ( 138 ). Another method includes obtaining quality control information from the microelectrode array after the event ( 162 ), accessing the quality control information obtained before the event ( 164 ), and comparing the quality control information obtained before the event with the quality control information obtained after the event ( 166 ).