Professor Patrick Cai, co-founder of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry
“I chose PIXL because it is the most accurate and reliable colony picker that I’ve seen. The throughput is slightly lower than some colony pickers, but it’s agar detection and transfer rates are better, which is more important to us when picking our valuable libraries.”
Biotools and Singer Instruments PIXL support the AHMB
The Australian Human Microbiome Biobank (AHMB) says “PIXL is “essential” to process samples quickly and capture comprehensive metadata for every microorganism in the biobank.”
Click to learn how PIXL’s ability to pick and image a 96-well plate of colonies within minutes is essential to AHMB uncovering a high rate of novel microorganisms from “microbial dark matter”. PIXL is central to their platform as the picking speed helps maintain diversity and preserve viability in anaerobes.
Screen and Count Colonies
Capture high-resolution colony images using PIXL’s scientific grade, colour camera.
Trust your Results
Sustain close to 100% picking accuracy with precision agar surface detection on every pick.
Maintain Sterility
Over 33,000 sterile, disposable tips in a single, low-cost PickupLine™.
Train Everyone
We spend a lot of time with our collaborators to make sure that our user interface thinks like you do.
Trace Everything
Export your routine, colony information and parameters as a CSV file.
Buy Back Capacity
PIXL is well balanced between accuracy and speed.
Detect Fluorescence
Detection of wtGFP, sfGFP, mCherry, tagBFP and Venus markers.
How does PIXL Work?
PIXL is developed in collaboration with leading synthetic biology incubators, SynCTI and SynbiCITE, and industrial partners SynthACE. All of whom are unhappy with existing colony picking options. We listened. We collaborated. We welcome: PIXL.
Be easy to use by anybody in the lab
Adapt to your protocol
Trace and export every plate, colony and parameter
