Chromium Single Cell

Flex Apex

Plate-based sample handling brings unprecedented scale to highly sensitive single cell profiling

Up to 384 samples a week in 96-well format

Exceptional performance with challenging samples

Why choose Apex

  • Running large-scale studies with minimized handling

  • Scaling at your pace with the ability to run partial plates

  • Detecting more genes with less sequencing

Assay specifications

    Species

  • Mouse

  • Human

  • Rat

  • Other species with custom probes

    Compatible samples

  • Cell suspension

  • Nuclei suspension

  • Fresh tissue

  • Frozen tissue

  • FFPE tissue

  • PFA-fixed tissue

  • Flow-sorted cells

  • Fixed whole blood

  • Organoids

    Multiomics

  • Probe-based gene expression

  • Cell surface protein

  • Intracellular protein

  • CRISPR screening

    Singleplex throughput options

  • 20K cells/sample

  • 160K cells/chip

  • 8 samples/chip

    Plate-based multiplexing throughput options

  • 20K cells/sample

  • 8M cells/chip

  • 3,072 samples/chip

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Chromium Single Cell

Flex Gene Expression

User Guides

Each Flex experiment requires a sample prep kit, chip, index kit, and core reagents plus an optional feature barcoding kit. If you're unsure what you need, use the experiment builder find the custom list of items required for your experiment.

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Documents and resources

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Cell Ranger

Cell Ranger is a set of free analysis pipelines for processing Chromium Single Cell data.

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Loupe Browser

Desktop application for Windows and MacOS that allows you to interactively visualize data.

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Cloud Analysis

Cloud Analysis enables quick and easy access to Cell Ranger pipelines from your web browser.

Featured publications

Featured datasets

Universal 3'

Whole transcriptome gene expression profiling with broad species compatibility.

Universal 5'

5' gene expression with T and B cell V(D)J repertoire profiling and antigen specificity.

Epi Multiome ATAC + Gene Expression

Combined profiling of 3' gene expression and chromatin accessibility from the same cell.

Epi ATAC

Chromatin accessibilility profiling at the single cell level.

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