







Operetta® CLS™ is a high throughput microplate imager for high-content analysis (HCA). It can acquire, analyze and manage fluorescence, brightfield and digital phase contrast images. The combination of high power LED excitation with fast, precise mechanics and one large format sCMOS camera enables fast imaging. Controlled by Harmony™ software it offers a seamless workflow, for reliable discrimination of phenotypes even in complex cellular models.
Intelligent image acquisition
Target more accurately your object of interest for significantly reduced acquisition and analysis times, particularly valuable for 3D microtissue and rare event studies.
Machine learning
Easily create algorithms without being an image analysis expert using our PhenoLOGIC proprietary machine-learning technology.
Easily quantify cellular phenotypes in complex 3D models
Explore your cell models by visualizing them in a 3D- and an XYZ-viewer and quantify volumetric and other 3D related phenotypic readouts.
Powerfully simple analysis capabilities
Harmony® high-content imaging and analysis software - is the easy-to-learn, easy-to-use software that can make you more productive - faster.
High efficiency excitation design
Direct coupling limits the light loss that is typical of light guides or fibers.
Fast Frame Rate Imaging
Capture rapid cellular changes with an imaging frame rate up to 105 fps.
Automated water-immersion objectives
From the company with more than 20 years of experience - giving faster exposure times, increased resolution and reduced photodamage.
Confocal spinning-disk technology
Provides a gentle imaging process (especially for live-cell experiments) with efficient background rejection.
We have used the Operetta and Operetta CLS high-content devices from PerkinElmer extensively to quantitate cell behavior. It is important to combine an offer of intuitive off-the shelf solutions whilst allowing further analysis tools to be developed by users.
Over the last few years, Operetta CLS has become increasingly important for our analysis and it provide lots of insights from a single transwell filter or from organoids in multiwell plates. Not only do you retrieve a lot of information, but you also get fantastic pictures. For example, we can visualize the interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with the multi-layered epithelia.
Whatever your application, there’s an Operetta CLS system configured to meet your requirements. And it’s modular, so it can change with your research demands.
With four LEDs and widefield fluorescence, the basic configuration of the Operetta CLS™ system is ideal for common applications that need sensitivity and resolution, with the capacity to grow if the need arises.
With eight LEDs, and confocal and widefield fluorescence, the FLEX configuration offers flexibility in excitation and imaging modes for many challenging applications – and it can be upgraded to even higher performance.
With all the features of the FLEX configuration, plus gas and temperature control and water-immersion objectives, this system is ideal for gentle yet highly sensitive live-cell imaging.