Robo-Lector - A novel platform for automated high-throughput cultivations in microtiter plates with high information content

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Huber, Robert ^a   Ritter, Daniel ^a   Hering, Till ^a   Hillmer, Anne Kathrin ^a   Kensy, Frank ^b   Müller, Carsten ^b   Wang, Le ^b   Büchs, Jochen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b m2p labs GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS FERMENTATION; BIOPROCESS; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INOCULATION; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ROBOTICS;

EID: 69549116398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-42     Document Type: Article

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