Screening and Selection of Colonies Producing Zones of Inhibition for Antimicrobial Discovery

Manual selection and picking colonies producing zones of inhibition can be a slow, tedious and error-prone process. To address these challenges, Molecular Devices’ QPix™ 400 Series microbial colony pickers offers high-throughput automated colony selection and picking with unmatched productivity and convenience. This application note describes the objective screening and selection of high value colonies producing clearing zones using the system and its software package.