What's New in MasterPlex® v3.0

For users upgrading from v2.0

1. Auto Plate Merging

   • New wizard simplifies plate merging for cross-plate analyses
   

2. Enhanced Normalization

   • Option to normalize by housekeeper with the least variation (CV%)
   

3. Auto Grouping of Replicates

   • Sample name recognition OR
   • Apply replicate grouping pattern across plate with simple a click and drag of the mouse

4. Enhanced Custom Report Generator

   • Export standard curve images in custom reports
   • New integrated HTML report viewer
   • Enhanced stylesheet management
   

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Improved File Handling

   • Simplified file management
   • Enhanced output file support for xMAP based systems

9. 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

10. 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.