Product Description
Pickolo™ is a colony-picker add-on for Tecan
robots. The product enable advanced and fully automated micro-organism colony
picking from agar plates, both Petri-dish and various multi-well plate formats,
based on diverse criteria such as size , shape and color of the colonies. The
product seamlessly installed on to the robot in just a few minutes. The
software is easily integrated into regular Tecan scripts such as Freedom EVOware® software
enabling colony picking downstream and upstream to other robotic tasks. The
software generates automatic documentation of the picked colonies.
 Customers testimonial"As part of Evogene's approach of being at the forefront of plant biotechnology, we are continuously exploring integration of new technologies and improving our in-house capabilities in order to accelerate and make our plant validation process more efficient. Picking colonies for PCR screening used to be a labor intensive task in our cloning process. Thanks to the Pickolo on our Tecan robot we were able to automate the colony-picking process and integrate it with the downstream colony- PCR screen preparation. We significantly speed up our process and made it more efficient. Our lab employees easily adopted the use of the Pickolo and are very happy with its friendly software and smooth operation. We are very proud to be the 1st company to adapt the Pickolo in Israel!" Dr. Alin Sela-Brown Head of Biology Lab, Evogene Ltd. Using the pickolo since March,2010
Read Pickolo case study at GEN here Current customers Pickolo™ is currently used by our customers around the world in the United States, France, Spain, Russia, Israel as well as in Australia. References and further details will be provided upon request. Features
- Fast
performance up to 800 colonies per hour
- Full
automation with upstream and downstream applications
- Flexible
selection criteria by color, size and more
- Easy
to use
- Simple
to install
Package
Includes
- Industrial high-resolution
camera with MegaPixel
computer vision lenses
- Aluminum
back-light carrier for Tecan robots including adapter to microplate and Petri-dish
and calibration tool.
- Colony-picking software package
for automated image analysis and robot control that allows sophisticated and
fully automated colony-picking based on diverse criteria of colony’s size, shape
and color and smooth integration into regular robot scripts.
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