Synbiosis, the Cambridge-based manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, has introduced a new automatic zone analyser, AutoZONE, that produces accurate plate readings in seconds.
Polishing off your plate
It consists of a computer-controlled, highresolution CCD camera on a gantry system. The camera automatically moves from zone to zone, rapidly reading and recording zone diameters to a +/û 0.01 mm degree of accuracy. The system can analyse a 64-zone bioassay plate in 70 seconds, around 25 times faster than manual analysis.
And the average diameter measurement is based on the entire zone area, making the results more precise than those taken when using manual single- or double-diameter measurements. As users can create and recall automatic scanning patterns for different configurations, AutoZONE is ideal for applications including multi-zone bioassay plate analysis and single radial immunodiffusion assay plate reads. Data is recorded using GLP-compliant software to eliminate errors during transfer.