• Flexibility without compromise

    Olink® Flex

    Olink® Flex is a customizable made-to-order product that enables the selection and combination of up to 21 human proteins into one biomarker panel. Mix and match from ~200 thoroughly pre-validated protein biomarkers.

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    Mix & Match

    ~ 200 combinable protein biomarkers

    Build a panel

    Up to 21 assays per panel, 40 samples per kit

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    Readout in absolute quantification

    Validation data

    Thoroughly validated biomarkers
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    Run your Olink® Flex panels on Signature Q100

    Olink® Signature Q100 is a user-friendly instrument for readout of all Olink® Flex, Target and Focus protein biomarker panels. Olink Flex combined with Olink Signature Q100 gives you an efficient workflow with robust performance. There is no need for time-consuming washing steps that could cause loss of material. Learn more about this benchtop solution and how to streamline your protein biomarker analysis.

    Olink® Signature Q100

    Use service providers around the world

    Olink® Flex panels offer mid-plex proteomics with unequaled flexibility and absolute quantification to cover a wide range of needs. You may select to buy the panels as kits and run them on Olink® Signature Q100 in your own lab, or to send your samples to one of the many Service Providers of Olink® Technology around the world that offer premium sample analysis services.

    If you have any questions regarding the ordering process, please contact your chosen Service Provider.

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    Discover a robust and scalable workflow

    Want to learn more about how Olink® Flex combined with Olink® Signature Q100 gives you a robust and scalable workflow, without complicated dilution calculations and time-consuming washing steps that could cause loss of material?

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    What to expect when ordering Olink Flex

    How does it work?

    Mix and match 15-21 pre-validated assays from an extensive Olink library using our online panel design tool in Olink® Insight. Each assay maintains the quality, performance, specificity, and sensitivity that our other products are known for. Our internal controls remove the need to run replicate samples, and the data is reported in absolute (pg/mL) or relative (NPX) quantification.

    Olink Flex gives you a streamlined workflow with robust performance. There is no need for time-consuming washing steps that could cause loss of material. Olink Flex runs on Olink® Signature Q100, a low maintenance, auto-calibrated instrument for data readout that facilitates unattended operation. Use the NPX Signature software for built-in QC and data analysis.

    Uniquely scalable

    The Olink platforms scale from our highplex product Olink® Explore 3072, to midplex Olink® Target 48 and Olink® Target 96 down to customized lowplex Olink® Focus and Olink Flex.

    All Olink platforms use our patented Proximity Extension Assay (PEA) technology, which provides exceptional specificity and sensitivity due to its dual recognition, DNA-coupled methodology. We offer the same high data quality regardless of plex-size.

    • Learn more on this web page

    • Review the Olink Flex Assay list.
      Study the selected template panels.
      Watch the instruction video for the panel selection tool in Olink Insight.

     

    • The Flex panel builder in Olink® Insight

    • Design and request your Olink Flex panel.
      Select from template panels put together by experts.
      Export and share panel designs with collaborators.
      Request your selected panels.

     

    • The Olink Flex team

    • Get contacted by an Olink expert for execution of your order.
      Your panels are prepared and quality controlled.

     

    • Delivery

    • Kits, Panel Data File and a Certificate of Analysis (CoA) are shipped within ~3-5 weeks.
      The Panel Data file and CoA are shipped to your account in Olink Insight.

     

    • Sample & data analysis

    • Run samples with Olink Flex panels on Olink® Signature Q100.
      Use the NPX Signature software for built-in QC and data analysis.

     

    Olink® Flex – flexibility without compromise on data quality

    With other technologies, combining your particular protein assays of choice can create significant problems with data quality. Using our unique PEA technology, however, means that Olink Flex can provide you will all the flexibility you need to mix and match up to 21 protein assays with 99% combinability while maintaining the exceptional data quality that Olink is known for. Each and every assay is transparently validated to the highest standards and you can be fully confident that whatever combination of assays you select for your Flex will work together and deliver high quality data with excellent specificity, sensitivity, and dynamic range. If you need more convincing, read on below!

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    Olink Flex validation data transparently shared
    Let us show you the data from our industry-leading assay validation process for the assays in the Olink Flex library. In this document you will find detailed information on assay performance characteristics, including detection limits, analytical measuring ranges in healthy and pathological human plasma samples and assay precision metrics.

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    Podcast with Katarina Hornaeus – product manager Flex
    Listen to Katarina explaining how Olink performs the validation of each combination of mix and match assays from the Flex library. She also explains why you can trust the 99% combinability of these assays and how this compares to other products on the market.

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    A straightforward protocol designed to maximize data quality
    This robust workflow with no washing steps and  pre-defined sample dilution schemes reduces the user-to-user variability and minimizes the risk for human error.

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    How does Olink compare to other multiplex protein analysis platforms? 
    This white paper describes a study comparing three established multiplex platforms for measuring multiple cytokines, with performance measured by dynamic range, precision, dilution series in buffer, and linearity .

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    Our PEA technology is a game-changer for proteomics

    Curious about how Olink technology delivers this scale of multiplexing and sample throughput without compromising on data quality or assay robustness?

    Proximity Extension Assay technology

    Olink Flex full Assay list

    Validation data document

    Search our resources for more info on Flex

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    Search for protein biomarker

    Browse the entire Olink library of high quality, thoroughly validated protein biomarker assays. Search by Uniprot ID, protein name, alternative protein name or gene name.

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    See what other visitors asked, to learn more about Olink technology, services and science. Search our library of information or contact our Customer Support for assistance.

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    Access all the latest technical user documentation to learn more about the functionalities of Olink products and solutions, including manuals, short instructions and guidelines.

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    UniProt

    UniProt is to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.

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    2947

    Biomarker assays

    ~881 million

    Protein data points generated

    1182

    Publications listed on website