New Microbiology Imaging Software

Synbiosis, a world-leading manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, is pleased to introduce its new ProtoCOL V1.44 colony counting and inhibition zone sizing software, designed to save microbiologists valuable time, by automating many routine plate based image analysis tasks.

ProtoCOL software

The new ProtoCOL software is built for maximum flexibility and can be used to analyse images of the same or different coloured colonies on pour, spiral or surface inoculated plates and 3M™ Petrifilm. The software, based on the latest Windows platform, has all the useful icons on one screen, so it is quick and simple for microbiologists to navigate and begin their image capture and analysis, with minimal training.

The ProtoCOL V1.44 software is Good Laboratory Practice compliant and supports 21CFR Part 11. It features many innovations for counting colonies, allowing users to discriminate by shape, size and colour. The software will also handle dilution series and even allows the lists of plate ID’s to be imported. Calculations for spiral plates are performed automatically and results can be exported to Excel or Excel Accumulate. Any manual edits or alterations are logged giving a full audit trail whilst the ProtoCOL Administrator program allows you to set the level of functionality available to other users.

Martin Smith of Synbiosis commented: “Our new software has taken over a year of technical development and includes many excellent features requested by ProtoCOL users. We are delighted with its performance and are confident that where microbiologists are manually counting thousands of colonies every day, using the new software will save countless hours, making ProtoCOL V1.44 an essential tool for quality control and research laboratories.”

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