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Hello everyone,
this may not be the best forum to ask my question, but there seems
to be so much multidisciplinary expertise out there ... We work with
antimicrobial peptides, and test them via several biological assays,
some of which result in plating onto petri dishes. We would like to
automate, or at least semi automate colony counting, to make it faster
and more reliable than students hunching over dishes in the safe hood,
ticking them off with a felt pen. Does anyone out there have any ideas.
We are as useal cronically short of funds, so we would prefer something
cheap (i.e. not an expensive instrument). I was thinking along the lines
of a bw video camera in the safe hood, hooked to one of our PCs. Then
once the of the culture dish is recorded and amplified, I suppose the
simplest method would be to use the mouse pointer to count and tick off
the colonies. Is there such a programme out there? Any advice would be
useful,
Bye,
Alex Tossi.
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Dr. Alessandro Tossi
Antiinfective peptides group
Dept. of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Macromolecular Chemistry
University of Trieste
Phone -- 39 40 6763673; Fax -- 39 40 6763691
email: tossi@univ.trieste.it
tossi@icgeb.trieste.it
http://www.univ.trieste.it:80/~nirdbbcm/antimic.html
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