Bio-Rad Microplate Manager Software - Manual (Page 10)

Introduction
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Microplate Manager 6 can perform four types of microplate readings.
• Endpoint Reads are used to acquire a single absorbance reading from each
well.
• Kinetics Reads are used to acquire a series of absorbance readings from
each well over a user-defined time interval to calculate reaction rate etc.
• Plate 2-1 Reads are endpoint data from two plates with data from the
second plate subtracted from the data from the first plate.
• Spectra Reads (xMark only) are a series of absorbance readings for each
well over a user-defined wavelength interval.
Select the test protocol that you want to open from the File Menu sample protocols,
or create your own. Specify the settings for your Protocol and define or select a
microplate template. Then take the reading. If you want to use a particular Protocol
again in the future, save it as a Protocol file.
After the absorbance values have been read, you can save them as a Data File and
display them in a variety of reports. The data can be viewed, printed, or exported to
other applications.
Menu Bars and Icons
Icons and pulldown menus are both available to use the commands and functions of
Microplate Manager 6 software.
The File, Window, Raw Data and Results menus and icons are described in the
following Introduction section.
The Template icons are described in the Setting Up A Template section on page 25.
The Curve Fit Plot icons are described in the Customizing Standard Curve Plots
section on page 41.