I have mostly done computational works and the transition to experimental work is slightly demotivating as I am stuck at each stage starting from whether to wear gloves for certain things to why my experiments are not reproducible!

At this stage, I am seeking an answer to how can I weigh my peptide correctly to make sure I am getting the same concentration as I planned?

For example, I want to get 1mM (just an example) concentration for my peptide and I calculated the required mass to be 0.7134 mg. Now a few questions which bother me are:

1. Since the weighing balance can only allow two decimal places, so should I round it off to 0.71 (because 3 is less than 5) or should I round it off to 0.72 (because it is likely that I will lose some peptides anyway while weighing!)

2. Even though I know theoretically the concentration of my solution, should I still measure maybe using nanodrop or some other way? (and how accurate it will be if no aromatic aa)

3. Is there anything else I should be taking care of here?

Also, if there is any authentic website or paper to read about this basics, please recommend.

Thank you all in advance.

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