Olink

Olink®
Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Overview
Make it yours

Design your own Olink Flex panel. Freely mix and match from our extensive assay library with industry-leading combinability, while maintaining exceptional data quality and leveraging minimal sample consumption. Run Olink Flex on your Olink™ Signature Q100, or send your samples to one of our certified service providers.

Overview

  • Proteins

    5-30 Per panel

  • Sample

    1 µL Plasma, serum & more

  • Protein library

    ~200 Pre-validated assays

  • Readout

    pg/mL Or NPX relative units

  • Combinability

    99% Industry-leading

  • Runs on

    Signature Q100

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Round Table

Navigating Neurological Disease Biomarkers – Progress, Learnings and Future Directions

Panel builder
Build your panel

Getting started is easy. Choose one of the following options to start building protein biomarker panels tailored to your research needs.

Panel templates

Expert designs tailored to your research needs

Olink Flex offers a selection of pre-designed protein biomarker panels spanning a wide range of research areas, designed by or in collaboration with experts in the field. You can customize the biomarker content further by mixing and matching from the entire Flex library.

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HIV-induced aging

Carefully curated by Dr. Ujjwal Neogi (Karolinska Institutet) to include 21 proteins reflecting various immune and inflammatory responses associated with aging and HIV.

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Inflammation

Includes 26 biomarkers crucial for studying inflammation and providing deeper insights into the immune landscape.

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Pro-inflammatory response

Combines 5 key proinflammatory markers for targeted studies of inflammation and the immune response.

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UKB Type 2 Diabetes panel

Curated based on UK Biobank proteomics data to include top biomarkers associated with type 2 diabetes.

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Immuno-Oncology

A selection of biomarkers involved in biological pathways central for immuno-oncology research e.g., angiogenesis, growth regulation, apoptosis, a

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Th1/Th2/Th17 response

Includes the most important cytokines characterizing the Th1/Th2/Th17 inflammatory profiles, providing the ultimate solution for studies of the immune system.

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IFN Stimulation

Developed together with Dr. Arnav Mehta and based on findings from the Nature Immunology paper “In vivo CRISPR screens reveal the landscape of immune evasion pathways across cancer.”

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Inflammation in aging

Curated with biomarkers crucial in age-related changes of the immune system, enabling studies of systemic chronic inflammation in aging.

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Cytokine storm

Tailored with biomarkers scientifically proven as crucial in the uncontrolled inflammatory response condition commonly referred to as cytokine storm.

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Biomarker library
Browse the Olink Flex library

The Olink Flex library offers a selection of ~200 pre-validated protein biomarkers. It allows for precise, mix-and-match combinations tailored to your research needs, ensuring high data quality and robust performance with absolute quantification.

Validation

Ensuring quality with flexibility

Olink’s unique PEA technology and commitment to rigorous validation overcome the conventional limitations of customizable panels, which may require compromises on performance and data quality. You can combine your assays of choice into one kit from the full library with 99% combinability, with full confidence that your panel will perform with high quality.

Verification

All assays in the Flex library have undergone thorough verification using healthy and diseased samples. This includes establishing LOQs, precision (intra- and inter-CVs), accuracy, specificity, and endogenous interference.

Quality control

Once the specific Flex panel has been produced, quality control is performed, and a panel-specific Certificate of Analysis is produced.

Lot-to-lot monitoring

Extensive QC procedures are implemented to minimize lot-to-lot variation and ensure consistent and reliable data.

Scalability

The correlation of Olink Flex with Olink Target 48 and Olink Target 96 panels has been evaluated to ensure scalability and robustness between Olink’s products.

    Customization
    Create, manage, and customize

    Build your own biomarker panel from the Olink Flex library. Alternatively, select one of our carefully pre-designed panels and modify if needed. Get started in Olink Insight.

    Platform benefits
    Elevate your immunoassay experience

    Beyond the Olink panel lies a wide range of free tools for study design, statistical analysis, data visualization, and quality control. There’s also continuous support from our data science experts and customer service teams. We’re proud to be active partners to thousands of researchers, from small lab teams to major institutions and consortia.

    Streamlined workflow

    Focus your time and effort on your research instead of washing steps and hands-on instrument handling. Use NPX™ Signature for QC and to generate analysis reports.

    Testimonial

    Working with Olink Flex

    The Olink platform was built in close collaboration with the scientific community, and the tools and services we prioritize are the ones our customers ask for. This close relationship drives proteomics forward.

    "With its ability to provide precise concentrations of various cytokines in both inflamed and healthy skin, Olink Flex was instrumental in distinguishing between different inflammatory skin conditions. Moreover, while using minimal volumes of skin interstitial fluid, Olink Flex has demonstrated its capability to detect cytokines such as type I Interferons, which are challenging to identify through our next-generation sequencing data."

    Dr. Khashayar Afshari

    Department of Dermatology, UMASS

    Document library
    Documents

    Below you will find a few documents related to this product. For the complete documentation including SDS, user manuals, technical notes and more, visit the documents section.

    DocumentsTypeFile
    Ensuring quality with flexibility- Olink® Flex validation & verification
    White paper
    Validation data - Olink® Flex
    Validation method and result
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    Multiple analysis of inflammatory proteins: a comparative study across multiple platforms
    White paper
    Product portfolio
    A flexible platform that accelerates your research

    Scalable Olink technology provides optimized solutions for every stage of the biomarker workflow, from high-throughput discovery through validation and clinical utility.

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