ProtoCOL is equipped with a unique colony detection system which combines special LED illumination and digital color camera control with powerful software. ProtoCOL comes standard with built in computer to minimize the foot print on lab bench. Computer specifications are updated as new processors and other advanced components become available. ProtoCOL is available in two different models, ProtocCOL SR (standard resolution) or ProtoCOL HR (high resolution). Both systems come complete with a 19” flat screen monitor, keyboard and mouse.

ProtoCOL SR

ProtoCOL software provides accurate analysis and enumeration of bacterial plates. The system is able to compensate for writing on plates, variations in agar thickness, touching colonies, meniscus effects, spreaders, bubbles, debris, different sized colonies and different colored media. Measuring applications include enumeration of pour, spread and spiral plates, multi well plate analysis and inhibition zone measurement. Typical measuring time is 1 second/ plate. For standard 90mm Petri dishes, the smallest detectable colony is >0.2mm. Higher magnifications are available with an external camera.

Software allows user to automatically set up serial dilution. A series is established and read with the mean count automatically calculated and reported. Users are also provided with detailed colony size statistics. Instant size distribution histograms and tables provide immediate comparisons between plate populations and can be used to highlight colonies of specific sizes. Users can easily create their own size class intervals and store them for reuse. ProtoCOL software also allows users to draw exclude regions, exclude problem areas on a plate and separate touching colonies.

ProtoCOL ensures no transcription errors as results are instantly transferred to a results table in a secured database. Different levels of users are governed by password control, ensuring compliance with quality procedures and GLP. Users who wish to reread previously analyzed samples using automatic or manual methods will automatically have a copy of the original result stored along with the new result. Users can configure ProtoCOL to request a “reason for change” free text comment which is recorded with the data in a comments field. Users can choose to save true color sample images for archive purposes; these images can be printed out directly from ProtoCOL software. One button click automatically transfers results to and Excel spreadsheet.

ProtoCOL HR

ProtoCOL HR employs all the features and benefits of the standard ProtoCOL system with the added benefit of a high resolution camera. The HR version has 4 times the resolution of ProtoCOL SR. For standard 90mm Petri dishes, the smallest detectable colony is >0.1mm. Higher magnifications are available with an external camera.

ProtoCOL HR is ideal for applications where the enumeration of micro colonies and / or fine measurement of inhibition zones are required. Typical applications for ProtoCOL HR include enumeration of water filtration samples, samples where typical colonies sizes are less than 100 microns and automated inhibition zone measuring (disk diffusion or drop method).

C – mount for external camera connection to microscope

WASP 2 Spiral Plater

The WASP 2 spiral plater eliminates the need for serial dilutions, offers a reduction in cost per test and standardizes counting methods. The WASP 2 is fully microprocessor controlled and allows depositions onto 10cm and 15cm plates in logarithmic volume...

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