FLUOstar OPTIMA F - Upgradeable Microplate Fluorometer for Fluorescence Assays

The FLUOstar OPTIMA F microplate fluorometer can perform fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, and FRET-based assays in all plate formats, including 384-well format. The FLUOstar OPTIMA F fluorometer is perfect for Life Science assays, such as calcium screening, DNA quantitation, G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) studies, Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC), europium based assays, and many more. Although the FLUOstar OPTIMA F fluorometer is an entry-level fluorescence microplate reader, it has many outstanding features and is fully expandable to handle all of your assay needs.

With a powerful and efficient xenon flash lamp the FLUOstar OPTIMA F fluorometer provides full spectrum excitation energy and allows performing measurements in the range from 240 - 740 nm or even up to 900 nm. Unlike halogen lamps found on most other entry level fluorometers, the FLUOstar OPTIMA F provides exceptional UV power for fluorophores that excite below 400 nm, like FURA-2 calcium dyes and Hoechst DNA dyes. Coupled with an extremely sensitive photomultiplier tube (PMT) with noise reduction circuitry, the FLUOstar OPTIMA F fluorescence microplate reader can achieve class-leading sensitivity levels. The FLUOstar OPTIMA F fluorometer uses filters for fluorescence detection as found on all high-end HTS microplate readers. The filters provide superior light transmission characteristics when compared to monochromators and therefore provide the best performance available. The FLUOstar OPTIMA F fluorometer has sixteen filter wheel positions and protocols can be programmed to read up to eight fluorophores per protocol. Protocols that require multiple fluorophore reads per plate, such as SNP assays, FURA-2, INDO-1, or FRET can be read with ease.

The FLUOstar OPTIMA F microplate fluorometer doesn't stop with fluorescence detection, it can be fully upgraded with additional detection modes as well as reagent injectors, extended incubation up to 60°C and much more. The OPTIMA platform was the first multidetection microplate reader to offer high performance luminescence mode and the FLUOstar OPTIMA F can be upgraded with this feature at any time. A FLUOstar OPTIMA Ffluorometer with optional luminescence is Dual Luciferase validated by Promega and will perform any commonly used luminescence assay. The FLUOstar OPTIMA F can also be upgraded to UV/Vis absorbance detection. ELISAs, 260/260 DNA quantitation, Bradford assays - the FLUOstar OPTIMA F with absorbance option can handle them all.

The entire OPTIMA microplate reader line is backed up by an intuitive reader control software and industry-leading MARS data analysis software. BMG LABTECH has the most comprehensive package on the market. MARS has full graphing capability, 21 CFR part 11 compliance, and a full suite of bioanalysis functions built in: one click calculations of Z', S/N, %CVs, standard deviations, well-scanning visualization, Lineweaver-Burk plots, IC50/EC50, DNA quantitation, enzyme kinetic calculations, Michaelis-Menten kinetic evaluations, Delta F analysis, regressions, unknown calculations, undilution features, and much, much more. And MARS is included with every OPTIMA microplate reader, even in the most basic units.