Colony picking has been a vital process in science labs for decades and many analytical methods rely on it. It is used to separate and grow communities from single strains for use in transformation as well as for microbial screen methods. Automated colony pickers have digitized and streamlined the process of picking, allowing for the potential to pick over 2,000 colonies per hour, or even more when scaled for large-scale facilities. Many colony picker robots also allow for easy tracking through the use of barcodes.
For choosing the right type of colony picker, it’s best to identify the desired workflow, the space required, and the cost of units.
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| Company | Hudson Robotics, Inc. | Hudson Robotics, Inc. | Hudson Robotics, Inc. | Hudson Robotics, Inc. | Hudson Robotics, Inc. |
| Item | RapidPick™ Harvester Colony Picking Pipettor | RapidPick Complete Colony Picker | RapidPick™ Complete Automated High-Throughput Colony Picker | RapidPick™ MP Multi-Pin Colony Picker | RapidPick™ SP Single-Pin Colony Picker |
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| Description | The RapidPick Harvester™ identifies and extracts sample plugs of microbial colonies, stem cell clusters, or fungal samples grown on agar or in liquid media. It is uniquely easy-to-use, accurate and durable. Petri dish, Omni plate, microplate compatible | 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 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.
... Read More | 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. In addition to allowing researchers to automate the selection and growth of cells grown on a colony 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. 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.
The Complete version of the system contains the basic multi-pin picking unit (RapidPick MP), along with a PlateCrane robotic arm, 5 microplate stacks, A Micro10x media dispenser and an adhesive plate sealer. Upgrades include a stand-alone enclosure with optional UV and HEPA filtration, fluorescent colony picking, and a Liconic automated shaking incubator.
The RapidPick™ is designed to pick from SLAS-compatible omni-trays, segmented colony plates, 24-well, 96-well and 384-well plates and petri dishes. It will inoculate SLAS-compatible omni-trays, 24-well, 96-well and 384-well deepwell and standard height plates.
All RapidPick operations are controlled by Hudson’s powerful SoftLinx™ easy-to-use scheduling software.... Read More | The RapidPick MP is the fastest, most accurate automated colony picking system in the world. It is intended for researchers who need the accuracy and high outgrowth rates of the RapidPick colony-picker, but whose workload doesn’t require the added automation available in the other versions of the The RapidPick MP is the fastest, most accurate automated colony picking system in the world. It is intended for researchers who need the accuracy and high outgrowth rates of the RapidPick colony-picker, but whose workload doesn’t require the added automation available in the other versions of the RapidPick. Petri dish, Omni plate, microplate compatible.... Read More | Hudson’s RapidPick SP is a single-pin version of Hudson’s widely acclaimed RapidPick multi-pin colony-picker and re-arrayer. Like the RapidPick and RapidPick Lite, the RapidPick SP has all the features needed by users in today’s molecular biology environment. The RapidPick SP has been designed to Hudson’s RapidPick SP is a single-pin version of Hudson’s widely acclaimed RapidPick multi-pin colony-picker and re-arrayer. Like the RapidPick and RapidPick Lite, the RapidPick SP has all the features needed by users in today’s molecular biology environment. The RapidPick SP has been designed to meet the needs of labs that can benefit from automated colony-picking and data-handling, but whose throughput needs can be met by its medium-throughput productivity.... Read More |
| Type | Colony Picker | Colony Picker | Automated / High-Throughput | Colony Picker | Colony Picker |
| Capacity | 4 to 6 positions; up to 150 plates with optional PlateCrane accessory | Inquire | 225 Microplates per Run | Input capacity of 72 deep-well culture growth plates | Inquire |
| Throughput | Inquire | > 2400 colonies/hr | Picking speed: 2400+ per Hour | Approximately 40 picks a minute, 2400+ picks per hour. | 400 wells inoculated per hour |
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