Colony Picking

An upgradable benchtop colony picking solution ready to scale with your lab’s needs.

PIXL

Standalone Colony Picker
Single colony picking
Integrability 
High-throughput screening
New and Upcoming Features

PIXL Dark

Integration-ready Colony Picker
Single colony picking
Integrability 
High-throughput screening

Features

Colony Picking Resources

A benchtop solution for end-to-end automation of MALDI-TOF target plate preparation for bacterial identification

Next generation tools for high throughput genome editing in yeast

Metabolic engineering automated with PIXL Dark

Scaling up CRISPR genome editing with PIXL

Accelerating biofoundry growth through collaboration

What microorganisms can PIXL pick?

Precision colony picking: Why Reliability Beats Speed

Taking the strain out of strain optimisation

How to Pick a Picker: What you should consider when automating colony picking

Screening of Scheffersomyces stipitis natural isolates
Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Microbiology (GMGM), University of Strasbourg

Using yeast to untangle the complexity of life

High-throughput microfluidic loading of microbial libraries

Considerations When Buying a Colony Picker

Your guide to colony picking like a pro

 Automating MALDI-TOF sample preparation protocols to facilitate bacterial identification.

The benefits of automating colony picking

Lactobacillus in probiotics and food production

Automatic zone of inhibition detection and analysis with PIXL

Gut microbiota

Elevate your Laboratory’s Colony Picking Automation

High Throughput Population Genomics – ROTOR+ PIXL

Plate type Sectoring – 48 Deep Well Plate

Versatile Colony Picking using Multiple Plate Formats

PIXL for Automated Colony Picking

Accurate Colony Picking Platform

Designer chromosome synthesis with the help of PIXL

PIXL Pinning Pressure Report

PIXL Efficiency Report: Agar-Agar

What are Genetic Mutations?

How to Grow Yeast

What is Yeast Genetics?

Colony Picking Accessories

  • PIXL Blade & Anvil Kit
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  • Dump Drawer
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  • Petri Dish Adaptor
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  • PlusPlates
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