14162 IUPAC Gold Book - microplate standards 10.1351/goldbook.14162 14162 current 1 Defined footprint, height, flanges, and well positions for 96-, 384-, and 1536-well microplates. These standards have been established by the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and accredited by ANSI. They are numbered as ANSI-SBS-1 (2004) – Microplate footprint; ANSI-SBS-2 (2004) – Microplate Height; ANSI-SBS-3 (2004) – Microplate Flange; and ANSI-SBS-4 (2004) – Microplate Well Positions. microplates https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14161 PAC, 2011, 83, 1129. 'Glossary of terms used in biomolecular screening (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 1148 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-09-05-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14162/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14162/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14162/plain Citation: 'microplate standards' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14162 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-27T15:20:08+00:00