These robots are absurdly versatile
Natively compatible with yeast, bacteria, fungi, algae, and that weird unidentified
filamentous orange organism that you isolated from the soil.
Why screen on agar rather than liquid?
Screening on agar is extremely advantageous due to costs saved in media, plates and time. There is simply way more space to deposit your samples on a $2 agar PlusPlate, without those pesky wells getting in the way. Not used to screening on agar? Whether screening at 96 or 6144-density, colony size can be used as an accurate proxy to estimate colony fitness, similar to measuring the Optical Density of cells in liquid media.1
Baryshnikova, A., Costanzo, M., Kim, Y., Ding, H., Koh, J., Toufighi, K., Youn, J. Y., Ou, J., San Luis, B. J., Bandyopadhyay, S., Hibbs, M., Hess, D., Gingras, A. C., Bader, G. D., Troyanskaya, O.G., Brown, G. W., Andrews, B., Boone, C., & Myers, C. L. (2010). Quantitative analysis of fitness and genetic interactions in yeast on a genomescale. Nature methods, 7(12), 1017–1024. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1534
Simply speaking:
“You can buy ROTOR+ and PIXL separately, but it’s like salt without pepper, Bonnie without Clyde, these two robots were made for each other.”
Scale up your screening throughput to yield >60-fold* reductions in cost and time. Automate precision colony transfer at ultra-high densities.
*vs screening in 96-well plates
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