Description
Hudson’s RapidPick™ Colony Picking Systems are the only fully automated high-throughput colony picking workcells. They deliver performance and precision unparalleled in the Life Science industry for enhancing bacterial cultivation. In addition to allowing researchers to automate the selection and growth of cells grown on a colony plate, the RapidPick software retains a record and image of each specific colony and which culture plate/well it inoculated. It provides the users an indispensable, unbroken data path from original colony to final result, eg. tracking a clone to a specific expressed protein.
Features:
- Speed: >2400 colonies/hr
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Calibration: Each tip is calibrated in a process that takes 5 minutes. This is a key advantage over systems that rely on calibration from 1 pin; any deviation in the calibration pin will cause other systems to miss colonies.
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Image Processing: Only 1 image is used to identify all of the colonies on a plate. As you know, other pickers use multiple images that get reconstructed, and reconstructed images require an overlap parameter that throws away about 10% of your colonies.
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Selection Efficiency: The RapidPick™ collects ~90% of all human pickable colonies.
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Tip Cleaning: Tips are cleaned with water from a large carboy followed by sterilization in a 300°C oven. This means no EtOH bath to evaporate causing contamination
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Automated Media Filling: Eliminates the need to dispense media at a separate workstation. The Micro10x’s features make it a perfect match for this application.