Custom OpenArray® plates

The custom option offers you the flexibility you need to design your own panels using our 1.3 million TaqMan® Gene Expression Assays, 4.5 million predesigned genotyping assays—including 2,700 inventoried drug-metabolizing enzyme (DME) assays—or your own custom TaqMan® assays. Custom OpenArray® plates include a suite of 11 formats to address your sample throughput needs (see Table 1).

Table 1: Custom OpenArray™ plate format

Custom OpenArray® plates for the QuantStudio® 12K Flex system are offered in 11 formats to provide flexible solutions for configuring your plates for gene expression, miRNA, or genotyping analysis.

Plate format for gene expression & miRNA analysis# of samples
per plate
Minimum order (10 pack)Total # of samples
per minimum order
Inventoried assays only
Inventoried, made-to-order, and/or custom assays
18 (3X) assays4811480
56 assays4811480
112 assays2412240 (inv only)/
480 (inv/custom)
168 assays1613160 (inv only)/
480 (inv/custom)
224 assays1214120 (inv only)/
480 (inv/custom)

Note: There are two sets of minimum order requirements for the gene expression offerings. “Inventoried” refers to OpenArray® configurations where all selected assays are inventoried . “Inventoried/made to order/custom” refers to configurations that contain at least one custom or made-to-order assay.

Plate format for
genotyping analysis
# of samples
per plate
Minimum order
(10 pack)
Total # of samples
per minimum order
16 assays14411,440
32 assays961960
64 assays482960
128 assays244960
192 assays166960
256 assays128960

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Gene expression
Genotyping

Use inventoried and pre-designed TaqMan® Gene Expression Assays.


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Use inventoried and pre-designed TaqMan® Gene Expression Assays, plus one or more custom assays.

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Use pre-designed and custom Taqman® SNP Genotyping Assays and TaqMan® DME Assays.

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OpenArray® flexible-content panels

OpenArray® flexible-content panels are pre-configured plates of TaqMan® Gene Expression Assays or TaqMan® SNP Genotyping Assays for a specific pathway, disease, or research focus area. The assays are auto-populated into the custom design tool and the panel can be modified to include or exclude specific assays. This flexible format enables more precise control and simplified assay setup.

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OpenArray® fixed-content panels

OpenArray® fixed-content pathway panels are pre-configured plates of TaqMan® Gene Expression or SNP genotyping assays for a specific biological process, pathway, or disease state.

  • Screen more than 600 genes in your disease-related pathways
  • High-quality, fixed-content, off-the-shelf panels
  • No minimum order required—shipping as fast as 1-2 days
  • Proven, market-leading TaqMan® real-time PCR chemistry
  • Pre-designed, wet-lab validated gene targets
Pathway panel Description

For use on
QuantStudio™ 12K Flex
Real Time PCR System

TaqMan® OpenArray® Genetic Barcode Plate 32AHigh-throughput tracking and sample identity confirmation; contains a subset of 32 assays specific to genetic genotyping barcodes4475386
TaqMan® OpenArray® Genetic Barcode Plate 32BHigh-throughput tracking and sample identity confirmation; contains a second subset of 32 assays specific to genetic genotyping barcodes4475387
TaqMan® OpenArray® Genetic Barcode Plate 64High-throughput tracking and sample identity confirmation; contains a full set of 64 assays specific to genetic genotyping barcodes4475394
TaqMan® OpenArray® Human Kinome PlateIdentify profiles of genes involved in the regulation of cellular pathways, contains 828 assays specific to kinase and kinase-related genes4475388
TaqMan® OpenArray® Human Inflammation PlateGene expression markers to characterize key pathways of inflammation response; contains 607 assays specific to human inflammation genes4475389
TaqMan® OpenArray® Human Stem Cell PlateGene expression markers to characterize human embryonic stem cell (hESC) identity; contains 631 assays specific to stem cell–related genes4475390
TaqMan® OpenArray® Human Cancer PlateIdentify differentially expressed genes involved in key pathways of cancer; contains 648 assays specific to cancer4475391
TaqMan® OpenArray® Human Signal Transduction PlateIdentify major genes involved in key signaling pathways; contains 597 assays specific to signal transduction–related genes4475392
TaqMan® OpenArray® Mouse Inflammation PlateGene expression markers to characterize key pathways of inflammation response; contains 648 assays specific to mouse inflammation genes4475393
TaqMan® OpenArray® Pharmacogenomics PanelValidation of drug-metabolizing enzyme (DME) markers; contains 158 DME assays associated with the PharmaADME Core Marker List4475395
TaqMan® OpenArray® Pharmacogenomics Express PanelValidation of drug-metabolizing enzyme (DME) markers; contains 60 DME assays commonly used in pharmacogenomics research4488847

TaqMan® OpenArray® fixed-content pathway panels are available for use on QuantStudio™ 12K Flex Real-Time PCR System and OpenArray® Real-Time PCR System. However, panels are not compatible with both systems. Please select the correct panel for the system that you own.

For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.