The small footprint of the RapidPick™ Lite Colony Picker saves lab space and easily fits into an anaerobic chamber or lab hood. Typical colony picking rates are around 2,500 colonies per hour with average inoculation rates of over 99%. Software Plug-Ins are available to communicate with all Hudson Robotics instruments and over 200 instruments from other manufacturers, such as LiCONiC incubators, media dispensers, pipetting workstations, and more. Hudson Robotics can also provide enclosures to isolate and showcase your workcell.
Using the RapidPick Lite, users can manually load a stack of colony plates and media-filled inoculation plates in the plate stacks of the PlateCrane EX robotic arm and then start the automated picking through an easy operator interface on the instrument’s control computer. Hudson’s RapidPick MP is designed to pick from Petri dishes, Nunc™ Omnitrays ™ or any ANSI/SLAS format microplates, including 1, 6, 8, 24, 48, and 96-well plates. They will inoculate ANSI/SLAS 1, 24, 96, 384, 1536 deepwell and standard height microplates. The RapidPick MP includes barcode scanners to identify barcodes on both the source colony plate and the target growth plate if the user’s plates are barcoded. Then, the transfer data is saved using these barcodes to identify the resulting picked colonies. If the user’s plates are not barcoded, the data will be saved in sequential order. With the standard 2nd destination plate, the user can create both an assay plate and an archive plate. Optional fluorescence detection and zone of exclusion bacterial colony detection is available.
RapidPick™ Lite Colony Picker offers:
- Easy to use, easy to set up, easy to maintain, easy to grow as applications change.
- The software is easy to use and robust for colony picking.
- Re-arraying option for plate replication and cherry picking is included at no charge.
- Optional modules include: Halo-forming picking, Fluorescent picking, LED light panel in any color.
- No programming is required. All methods are ready-to-go upon arrival.
- Easily set maximum colonies to pick from segment or plate.
- Easily set control wells anywhere in the destination plate, 1,2 or 3 wells or whole rows or columns. Controls are 100% user defined.
- Lid removal and lid management is included at no charge.
- Includes basic service kit for minor issues like pin replacements.
- Includes barcode scanners for source and destination plates at no charge and provides data tracking.
- Optional email notification is available for run completion and error notification.
- The optional enclosure provides a clean and safe work environment. Enclosure options include: free standing table, HEPA filtration, UV sterilization.
- Optionally expand your system to include automated inoculation media dispensing, shaking, incubation, plate sealing and/or greater plate capacity.
- The RapidPick’s easy to use software enables users to create unique colony morphology sets to automate the colony picking process.
