RapidPick™ Complete Colony Picker
RapidPick™ Complete offers the highest flexibility for workcell automation, throughput and efficiency in colony-picking.
RapidPick™ Complete Colony Picker contains the RapidPick MP 20-Pin colony picker, along with a PlateCrane™ robotic arm, 10 microplate stacks, a Micro10x™ media dispenser, an adhesive plate sealer and a stand-alone enclosure. Upgrades include optional UV and HEPA filtration, GFP fluorescence colony picking, Halo detection and a LiCONiC automated shaking incubator.
Description
The RapidPick™ Complete Colony Picker is designed to pick from SBS-compatible omni-trays, segmented colony plates, 24-well, 96-well and 384-well plates and petri dishes. It will inoculate SBS-compatible omni-trays, 24-well, 96-well and 384-well deep well and standard height plates.
All RapidPick operations are controlled by Hudson’s powerful SoftLinx™ easy-to-use scheduling software.
Hudson’s RapidPick™ Colony Picking Systems are the only fully automated high-throughput colony picking workstations. They deliver performance and precision unparalleled in the Life Science industry for enhancing bacterial cultivation. In addition to allowing researchers to automate the selection and growth of cells grown on a colony plate, the RapidPick software retains a record and image of each specific colony and which culture plate/well it inoculated. It provides the users an indispensable, unbroken data path from original colony to final result, eg. tracking a clone to a specific expressed protein.
Specifications
- Highest quality USB camera and lens
- Software/camera images whole plate in 1 image field
- Standard adjustable parameters based on: Radius, Amplitude, Elongation, Conformity, Separation
- Continuous cycling of the pin from picking to destination to vacuum wash bath to heater coil
- Tungsten pins heat and cool quickly allowing sterilization to be done with direct heat
- Barcode readers for source and destination plates are standard
- User selects colonies based on size, shape, separation from neighbors, blue/white
- Unlimited number of image parameter files for different users and sample types
- Pick from segmented plates using onboard masks
- Easy to use, easy to support
- RapidPick MP Colony Picker measures only 17 in. x 21 in x 27 in.
- LED light box is controlled in software improving ease-of-use
Applications
This workcell is unique in its completely integrated operation which allows researchers working in Colony Picking, Re-Arraying, and Replication the ability to feed source and destination plates in a compact workcell environment.
Synthetic Biology
Hudson Robotics’ unique capabilities and product mix have enabled us to lead the world in the automation of the complete Synthetic Biology Pipeline: from automated oligo synthesis and gene assembly through transformation, colony picking and plasmid preparation.
Combined with our previous work with protein expression and purification systems, Hudson now offers a solution to automating any process encountered in a typical molecular biology laboratory.
Fungal, Yeast, Bacterial Colony Picking
Hudson has been a key player in the colony picking arena for many years. We offer several versions of our RapidPick platform, including the recently introduced single-pin picker. Easy-to-use, but sophisticated software interacts with the picker and the incorporated camera to identify and select appropriate colonies.
Protein Expression & Purification
Hudson offers a wide range of instrumentation to support the entire range of protocols commonly encountered when preparing peptides and proteins. From liquid handlers to support PCR through vast, multi-component systems to support an entire research effort.