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Colony picking automation

Robotic systems that image a microbial plate, select colonies by size/morphology/fluorescence, and transfer a picked pin-head sample into a fresh growth plate or culture vessel at 200–3,000 colonies/hour, the front-end step of strain engineering, directed evolution and clone-screening workflows.

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Colony picking robots
Robotic platforms that image a microbial plate, score colonies by size, morphology and fluorescence, then pick and re-array 200–3,000 colonies an hour into fresh growth plates — the automated front end of strain engineering, directed evolution, CRISPR clone screening and microbiome culturomics.
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