Single-cell experiment planner

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Enter your sample count and target cells per sample. Every barcoding kit is costed at the number of units it would take to cover the plan, paired with the cheapest library prep kits, and ranked on price.

Split across kits when needed

Target recovery, evenly loaded

Total cells 240,000

Drag the pink cell target left or right to see the options that meet your experimental plan. The dashed bar is where a kit needs more than one unit. Click any kit to inspect it, and Recommend to return to the best-value option.

Total cells

All barcoding options

Every kit against this plan

Total capacities are across the number of units shown in the Barcoding kits column.

Barcoding kit Barcoding kits Total capacities Library prep Cost Status
Samples Cells Rxn required Required kits Spare rxn Total Experiment

Barcoding

Library prep

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Order list

Item Part number Qty Unit price Line total

Don't forget cell fixation kits. They aren't costed here yet, so add them to your order separately — fixation kit planning is coming to the calculator soon.

Cost split

Actual experiment cost and remaindered reagent carry-forward

Charged to this experiment —
Lib prep carried forward —

Kits needed: A barcoding kit is repeated until it covers the samples, the cells and the libraries: units = the largest of samples ÷ samples per kit, total cells ÷ cells per kit, and libraries needed ÷ max libraries per kit, rounded up. Each unit produces at least one library.

Purchase price: every kit on the order — barcoding units plus whole library prep kits.

Experiment cost: charges the barcoding kits in full — they're consumed per run — but only the library prep reactions this experiment actually uses; the balance is carried forward as reagent for the next run.

Not modelled: Cell fixation kits, consumables and sequencing costs sit outside this calculation.