What's New in MasterPlex® v3.0
For users upgrading from v1.0
Auto Plate Merging
- New wizard simplifies plate merging for cross-plate analyses
Enhanced Normalization
- Option to normalize by housekeeper with the least variation (CV%)
Auto Grouping of Replicates
- Sample name recognition OR
- Apply replicate grouping pattern across plate with simple a click and drag of the mouse
Enhanced Custom Report Generator
- Export standard curve images in custom reports
- New integrated HTML report viewer
- Enhanced stylesheet management
Usability Improvements
- Double-click a well for quick editing of sample names, dilution factors, standard values and replicate group names
- Virtual plate window is now more easily distinguished by an orange panel
- Ability to edit bead names
- Scrollbar added to analyte panel for easier navigation
Improved Charts and Report Generator
- Column graphs now show error bars for replicate groups
- New graph type displays data in columns for entire plate
- New Custom Report Generator offers unlimited flexibility for output file formats using XSL stylesheets
- Usability improvements to report generator dialog
New Analysis and Calculation Features
- Support for relative quantification analysis
- New normalization function
- Fold-change calculations with or without normalization such as gene expression and miRNA expression applications
- Panomics QuantiGene® Plex kit support
- Luminex FlexMIR kit support
- Automatic outlier detection, based on standard deviation within replicate groups
Improved File Handling
- Simplified file management
- Enhanced output file support for xMAP based systems
Other Usability Improvements
- Enhanced Standard/Control link
- Average, standard deviation and %CV views for MFI values added to the plate view – no longer need to run report to see them
- Copy & paste sample and group names into MasterPlex QT from other applications
- Use Hot keys to quickly toggle between different data types and navigate through large data sets more efficiently
- Analyte filtering options such as “add all as new” and “exclude” when combining multiple plates into Virtual Plate
New Licensing Option
- Share MasterPlex QT licenses with an unlimited number of clients across the same LAN
- Software based license manager doesn’t require the use of dongles, USB keys, etc.
Reports
- Print reports in column-by-column (vertical) or row-by-row (horizontal) formats
- Export reports in many new formats, including Excel, XML, PDF, HTML and more.
- Background values included in all relevant reports
Improved Standard curve Charts
- Standard curve charts include error bars for replicate groups
- Residual plot displays expected concentration values on the x-axis
- Weight and outlier settings for standard curves are saved in the plate file as well as in templates
File Handling
- Improved backward compatibility when opening older MasterPlex files
- Import batch mode files generated by Luminex IS software
- Automatically send acquired data from MasterPlex CT to MasterPlex QT for analysis
Calculations
- Automatic recalculation of standard curve fit after associated changes
- Faster, optimized curve-fitting algorithms including industry standard 4PL and 5PL
- New weighting algorithms included to offset Heteroscedasticity
- Outliers included in auto-recalculation of standard curves
- Consolidated calculation dialog box for launching all types of calculations
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