Colonyzer: Automated quantification of micro-organism growth characteristics on solid agar

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lawless, Conor ^a   Wilkinson, Darren J ^a,b   Young, Alexander ^b   Addinall, Stephen G ^a   Lydall, David A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC QUANTIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL IMPERFECTIONS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH PHASE; GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE; GROWTH CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENS; IMAGE ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; LOGISTIC GROWTH MODEL;

ALGAE; CYTOLOGY; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LIGHTING; LIQUIDS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLYSACCHARIDES;

CELLS;

AGAR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AGAR; ALGORITHMS; CELL COUNT; CULTURE MEDIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952726404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-287     Document Type: Article

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