Zymergen uses the QPix colony pickers to make better microbes in industrial fermentation
COMPANY/UNIVERSITY
Zymergen
TEAM MEMBERS
Will Serber, PhD, Automatio Engineer
PRODUCTS USED
QPix 400 Series Microbial Colony Pickers
The Challenge
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The Solution
This capability allows Zymergen to generate novel chemicals, advanced materials, and pharmaceuticals much faster and at lower cost than current approaches. Zymergen’s growing fleet of Molecular Devices QPix™ 420 Systems allows them to identify and pick large numbers of colonies quickly, accurately, and reliably. The QPix units are a critical link in their microbe engineering pipeline, integrating seamlessly with their state-of-the-art laboratory information management system (LIMS).
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QPix Microbial Colony Pickers
Products Used
The QPix™ 400 series of microbial colony pickers offer you the unique option to simultaneously detect colonies and quantify fluorescent markers in a pre-screening step before picking. Our QPix systems are used worldwide in over 600 installations in research institutes, sequencing facilities, biotech and pharmaceutical companies. QPix robotics developed a famous reputation for reliability and accuracy in sequencing centers during the Human Genome project.
More than just colony pickers, these systems enable scientists to:
- Automate workflows from sampling and spreading to picking.
- Pick the right colonies every time
- Efficiently manage large, diverse populations for: protein expression, biofuel research, enzyme evolution, phage display, DNA sequencing, library generation and management.