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StainWorks

The app for antibody panel design, panel mixing and inventory management — and the software half of every Parhelia instrument.

Building a large panel by hand

  • It is a tedious, multi-hour workflow for anything large.
  • Manual decapping and recapping strains wrists.
  • Low-volume pipetting introduces variability.
  • Existing solutions stop at 10 µL and above, which is unacceptable for most users.
  • Inventory tracking is hard, especially in a high-throughput, multi-user lab.
The StainWorks panel editor: a named multicolor panel with CD8:FITC, CD45:PE, CD20:APC and CD4:PacBlu rows, each with a volume

Panel design

  • Define a panel marker by marker, each with its own fluorophore and volume
  • Add FMOs and single stains alongside the master mix
  • Up to 96 distinct sub-panels in a single mixing run
  • Reuse saved antibody modules across panels instead of retyping them
The StainWorks panel management screen, showing stored antibody modules laid out as 96-well plate maps

Antibody inventory management

  • All-in-one storage and management for large antibody panels
  • Antibodies live in annotated P54 modules that take standard screw-cap tubes
  • A layered lid design avoids cross-contamination and the capping/recapping cycle
  • Precision tracking of remaining reagent levels, so a run does not start short

Protocols, not scripts

  • Validated protocols in one place

    Staining protocol files live in the app rather than on a shared drive.

  • No coding required

    Build and edit a protocol without writing a line of code.

  • Customizable

    Adapt a validated protocol to fit your own experiment.

Runs with your instrument

See it with your own panels

Bring us a panel you run today and we will show you what designing, mixing and tracking it looks like in StainWorks.