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

  • 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

Components

Each experiment requires a chip, index kit, and core reagents. If you're unsure what you need, use the experiment builder to find the custom list of items required for your experiment.

Consumables

Choose a version


Nuclei Isolation (optional)

REAGENT

1000494

Chromium Nuclei Isolation with RNase Inhibitor Kit, 16rxns

Sample Prep Kit

REAGENT

1000781

GEM-X Flex Sample Preparation v2 Kit, 48 rxns

Individual Wash Workflow (optional)

REAGENT

1000828

GEM-X Flex Supplemental Wash Kit, 64 rxns

Chip

CHIP

1000791

GEM-X Flex Gene Expression Chip Kit, 4 chips

Index Kit

REAGENT

1000251

Dual Index Kit TS Set A, 96 rxn

REAGENT

1000215

Dual Index Kit TT Set A 96 rxns

REAGENT

1000250

Dual Index Kit TN Set A, 96 rxn

Core Reagents

REAGENT

1000926

GEM-X Flex v2 Human, 4 samples

REAGENT

1000927

GEM-X Flex v2 Human, 16 samples

REAGENT

1000928

GEM-X Flex v2 Human, 96 samples

REAGENT

1000929

GEM-X Flex v2 Human, 384 samples

REAGENT

1000930

GEM-X Flex v2 Mouse, 4 samples

REAGENT

1000931

GEM-X Flex v2 Mouse, 16 samples

REAGENT

1000932

GEM-X Flex v2 Mouse, 96 samples

REAGENT

1000933

GEM-X Flex v2 Mouse 384 samples

REAGENT

1000919

GEM-X Flex Gel bead & Library Kit v2, 4 rxn

Additional Reagents

REAGENT

1000900

GEM-X Flex Human Transcriptome Probe Kit v2, 16 samples

REAGENT

1000902

GEM-X Flex Mouse Transcriptome Probe Kit v2, 16 samples

REAGENT

1000937

GEM-X Flex Core Reagent Bundle v2, 96 rxns

Feature Barcoding Kit (optional)

REAGENT

1000628

Fixed RNA Feature Barcode Multiplexing Kit, 64 rxns

RNase Inhibitor (Optional)

REAGENT

1000887

Kit, RNase Inhibitor 40x

Compatible Instruments


Chromium XChromium iX

Build your own Apex experiment

Design the experiment that's right for you

Documents and resources

Videos

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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.

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