ROTOR+ PIXL Resources

What is Yeast?

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Zone of Inhibition with PIXL explained

Overview Zone of inhibition (ZOI), also known as a zone of clearing or a halo assay, refers to the clear zone surrounding an antimicrobial agent. These ZOIs result from a complete absence of bacteria on, or within a confluent bacterial lawn (red arrow, figure 1a). The antimicrobial activity of the agent is screened against a […]

What is Yeast Genetics?

What is High-Throughput Screening?

PIXL Efficiency Report: Agar-Agar

Designer chromosome synthesis with the help of PIXL

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The benefits of automating colony picking

Manually picking colonies can be time-consuming and inefficient, not to mention boring! When colony picking becomes the bottleneck in your lab’s research, it’s probably time to consider an automated colony picker. However, throughput alone is not the only benefit of an automated colony picker. Reduce human error Hold off getting more students in to hand […]

High-throughput screening of green algae transformants

CASE STUDY: Use of the Singer ROTOR+ for Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Cell Culture

CASE STUDY: Chemical Genetics and Drug Target Discovery

CASE STUDY: High-throughput Cell Plating Using the ROTOR+

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Automating MALDI-TOF sample preparation protocols to facilitate bacterial identification.

Michael D. Nairn¹, Philip Kirk², Matthew E. Openshaw¹, Oliver Severn², Leah Ashley² 1, Shimadzu, Manchester, UK; 2, Singer Instruments, Roadwater, UK Abstract Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) is a mass spectrometry (MS) that characterises various intact biomolecules. In microbiology, MALDI-TOF aids pathogen detection and microbial profiling by identifying bacteria to the species level. However, […]