SoftMax Pro Software

One software platform. The right level of control for your lab.

SoftMax® Pro Software brings microplate data acquisition, analysis, and reporting into one integrated platform, helping laboratories generate dependable results with less manual data handling and fewer disconnected tools. Ready-to-run protocols, customizable assay workflows, powerful calculations, and flexible reporting support applications from everyday research through regulated quality control.

Designed for Windows® 10 and 11, SoftMax Pro Software works with supported Molecular Devices microplate readers and can import plate-based data from other acquisition sources. Laboratories can choose the level of control that fits their work: Standard for flexible research workflows, GLP Mode for consistent, traceable, audit-ready results without the full burden of a GMP system, or GxP Software for comprehensive compliance controls and validation support.

The latest release, SoftMax Pro 7.6 Software, introduces GLP Mode — a purpose-built option for development and preclinical laboratories that need greater control and traceability without the complexity of a full GMP system. It also delivers workflow and compliance enhancements, streamlined administration, and expanded connectivity options that make it easier to manage day-to-day work and move results into downstream systems.

New in SoftMax Pro 7.6

The control your GLP lab needs—without the GMP complexity it doesn’t.

SoftMax® Pro 7.6 GLP Mode helps development and pre-clinical laboratories generate consistent, traceable, audit-ready results while preserving the flexibility their work requires. Purpose-built controls bring greater oversight to methods, data, and user activity—without forcing teams into a full GxP system before they need one.

• Protect data integrity with traceable user activity and changes
• Standardize workflows across users, instruments, and sites
• Prepare for audits without reconstructing records across spreadsheets
• Add the controls you need today while supporting tomorrow’s growth

Built for GLP. Not borrowed from GMP.

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Why upgrade to SoftMax Pro 7.6?

SoftMax® Pro 7.6 Software helps existing users bring greater efficiency, control, and connectivity to their plate reader workflows. The latest release introduces GLP Mode and delivers enhancements across workflow management, compliance support, administration, and system connectivity.

Add the right level of control

GLP Mode gives development and preclinical laboratories a purpose-built path to greater consistency, traceability, and audit readiness—without moving directly to a full GxP system.

Simplify software administration

Administration enhancements help teams manage the software environment and day-to-day system responsibilities more efficiently.

Strengthen workflow oversight

New workflow and compliance enhancements help laboratories improve traceability, reduce risk, and maintain greater control over how plate reader data is generated, reviewed, and reported.

Connect results more efficiently

Expanded connectivity and integration capabilities make it easier to move data into downstream laboratory systems and reduce reliance on manual transfers.

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Which SoftMax Pro option is right for your lab?

Choose the level of workflow control, compliance support, and data connectivity that fits your laboratory today.

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Turn plate reader data into usable results more efficiently

Reduce manual data handling

Acquire data, apply calculations, review results, and generate reports within one platform. Keeping the plate-based workflow together reduces the need to transfer information between disconnected tools and reconstruct results manually.

Adapt workflows without slowing the science

Start with ready-to-run protocols or customize acquisition, calculations, and analysis for your assay. Teams can standardize established methods while retaining the flexibility to respond as research needs evolve.

Choose the right level of control

Select Standard, GLP Mode, or GxP Software based on your laboratory’s current requirements. Add the traceability, oversight, and compliance support your work needs without implementing unnecessary infrastructure or complexity.

SoftMax® Pro Software interface showing microplate layout, protocol configuration, and data analysis views within a single application

Features

Standardize methods while preserving flexibility

Use a library of preconfigured protocols for common microplate assays or define custom acquisition settings for specialized methods. Protocols can also support compatible Molecular Devices reagents, validation plates, and adapter plates, helping teams establish repeatable workflows more efficiently.

Turn raw plate data into actionable results

Apply curve fitting, interpolation, cross-plate analysis, and custom formulas within the same environment used to acquire your data. Automated calculations support commonly used metrics such as relative potency, EC50, and Z-factors, reducing the need for manual downstream analysis.

Bring plate data together for consistent analysis

Import plate-based data from supported external acquisition sources and apply SoftMax Pro analysis and reporting tools across datasets. Importer options help laboratories consolidate data reduction in one familiar software environment, even when data originates from different instruments.

Move results into downstream workflows efficiently

Organize data in a lab notebook-style layout and generate outputs in formats including PDF, Excel®, and XML. XML and automated export options support data transfer to systems such as LIMS and SDMS, helping results move into downstream laboratory workflows.

Keep complex experiments on track

Configure custom measurement sequences, including supported kinetic and discontinuous-kinetic workflows. Pause and resume kinetic reads where supported, giving users greater control over experiments that require timed interventions or variable measurement intervals.

Review complete experiments and make decisions faster

Group multiple plate reads within a single experiment and review results, calculations, pass/fail criteria, graphs, and images together. This consolidated view makes it easier to evaluate complete experiments and reach decisions without reconstructing results across separate files.

Strengthen control and traceability as requirements grow

Choose from Standard, GLP Mode, or GxP options based on your laboratory requirements. Available controls can support traceability, role-based access, electronic records, approvals, audit trails, and controlled document workflows, depending on the selected software configuration.

Simplify instrument verification and documentation

Use compatible validation tools and services to help verify microplate reader performance and document system readiness. Integrated support can simplify validation activities by reducing the need to coordinate separate software and service workflows.

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Helpful Tips:

• To prevent data loss, turn off all sleep and hibernation settings for the hard disk, the CPU, and the USB ports
• Disable automatic Windows Updates
• Update WIndows manually when the instrument isn't being used by the software; these options can be enabled in Windows Control Panel

Note: Installing and using the SoftMax Pro Software on the Windows XP operating system is no longer supported. The software is neither tested nor validated on Windows XP.

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