An
assay design is a structured data container designed to collect and store information about a particular assay experiment. Some built-in assay types, including Luminex®, provide starting templates to make it simpler to create the design required for a particular instrument. In this tutorial, we simply create a named instance of the default Luminex assay design. You could further customize this assay design if needed, but this tutorial does not do so. For further information on the fields included in the default Luminex design, see
Luminex Properties.
Create a New Default Luminex Design
- Select (Admin) > Manage Assays.
- Click New Assay Design.
- For the assay type, select Luminex.
- At the bottom of the page, for the Assay Location choose Current Folder (Luminex).
- Click Next.
The
Luminex Assay Designer page lets you define assay properties and make any changes necessary to the schema. In this example, we use the default Luminex properties.
- In the Assay Properties section, for Name enter "Luminex Assay 100".
- Review the properties and fields available, but do not change them.
- Click Save.
You've now created a new named assay design and can begin importing data.
