Automation provides a number of benefits to clinical, industrial, and research laboratories, including elimination of human errors, improvement in consistency, minimization of contamination, increased throughput, decreased costs, and reduced hands-on time. At the same time, multiplex assays offer the benefits of more data per sample, faster reaction times, reduced sample consumption, enhanced scalability, and a number of additional benefits due to elimination of repetitive steps. Integrating laboratory automation with multiplex assays provides significant efficiencies to workflow processes, especially when a large number of samples are being analyzed, or when a highly multiplexed assay is being developed. Automation can be partially or fully implemented.
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Luminex® xMAP® Technology is designed for multiplex assays in clinical, industrial, and life science research labs that require fast and repeated assays of multiple targets. The platform allows multiplexing of up to 500 unique assays within a single sample. High sample throughput is needed in diagnostics reference labs or during clinical trials.
As evidenced by the more than 27,000 publications to date, xMAP Technology has become the most widely used multiplexing technology.