RapidPick SP

Key features include:

• • Compact bench top design that is easy to use.
  • Expandable to robotic arm loading as your needs grow.
  • Medium colony picking throughput of up to 250 colonies/hour.
  • Average inoculation rates over 99%.
  • Ideal for research picking inside anaerobic chambers or biosafety cabinets.
  • Wash and sterilization system has with a proven track record of over ten years of dependably eliminating carryover contamination.
  • 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, and robotic arms.

• • The system is fully compatible with our PlateCrane EX robotic arm and SoftLinx™ scheduling software. Also capable of advanced integration with other instruments as part of a complete molecular biology.

The imaging system, single pin colony picker, and sterilization system on the RapidPick-SP are the same as those on the RapidPick MP. The differences are the plate loading and the number of pins used to pick samples.

The RapidPick’s easy-to-use software enables users to create unique colony morphology sets to automate the colony picking process.

• • Select the visual parameters for automatically identifying colonies, such as Radius, Amplitude, Elongation, Conformity, Separation
  • Select the Source Plate format to be used
  • Select the Target Plate format
  • Select the Type of operation (colony-picking, re-arraying, plate replication, etc.)
  • Select picking segments on segmented colony plates
  • Define picking parameters and limits

Specifications

• • Holds one source plate and two destination plates at a time.
  • Uses an LED light box with the intensity of the lights controlled in software.
  • LED lights and receptors are available in many popular colors as needed.
  • The camera takes a single image of the entire plate. No image stitching or cropping.
  • The user creates parameter files to identify colonies to be picked. There is no limit to the number of parameter files that can be created. Selected colonies are determined by size, shape, contrast to background and closeness to other colonies.
  • The user has the option of manually editing the plate to be picked if desired  – colonies can be selected or deselected with the click of the mouse.
  • Operation of the picker is very fast and easy: scan image, analyze it, edit it, and start picking.
  • Typical picking speed is 250 wells inoculated per hour.
  • Can pick at an appropriate agar height.
  • The inoculation pin can be set to “wiggle or dither” in the destination well from 1-10 shakes, resulting in inoculation efficiency of 99%+.
  • Wash station utilizes a water wash to remove loose debris on the pin.
  • The Pin is sterilized with direct heat. The tungsten construction allows the pin to rapidly cool before being used for picking again.
  • The picker can support NUNC Omnitrays, ANSI/SLAS footprint microplates, and Petri dishes for picking
  • The picker supports most ANSI/SLAS format shallow and deep well plates for the source/destination or for use with plate replication; 24, 96, and 384-well formats.