14176 IUPAC Gold Book - plate format 10.1351/goldbook.14176 14176 current 1 Number and configuration of wells on a microplate. The most widely used formats are arrays of 96 wells (8 by 12) or 384 wells (16 by 24) or 1536 wells (32 by 48). microplate https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14161 microplate standards https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14162 PAC, 2011, 83, 1129. 'Glossary of terms used in biomolecular screening (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 1150 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-09-05-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14176/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14176/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14176/plain Citation: 'plate format' 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.14176 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. 2026-06-27T15:20:32+00:00