Protos 3
Protos 3 is a revolutionary automated colony counter and chromogenic identification system. Using its sensitive CCD camera and unique lighting coupled with powerful analysis software, Protos 3 counts colonies in seconds and automatically identifies microbial species by their colour on chromogenic plates. This provides accurate, objective and fully traceable results.
Fully traceable results
- Can input plate identification using 1D or 2D barcode
- Automatic capability to transfer and print results and images
- Saves counts to Excel to eliminate keying errors
- Saves images in TIFF, Excel and report formats
- Archives results in accessible SQL database
Increases throughput
- Accurately detects colonies as small as 0.043 mm
- Precisely counts an infinite number of individual colonies in seconds
- Analyses 75 plates in 5 minutes
Excellent detection performance
- True colour recognition using unique 3 colour lighting
- Identifies multiple different colony colours on one plate
- Analyses all plate colours with a choice of light and dark backgrounds
- Classifies by size, colour and shape
- Objectively identifies species by colour on CHROMagar™
Reproducible results
- Provides objective colour results
- Eliminates keying errors with direct results transfer
- Automatically identifies species on chromogenic plates
Simple to use
- Intuitive software
- Corrects for agar defects, touching colonies or sample debris
- Marks colonies with symbols to show each counted
- Easy to exclude areas from a count
- Adjustable counting area
Multiple plate reading functions
- Pour plates
- Spiral plates
- Multi-sector plates
- Gridded plates
- Streak plates
- Dilution series plates
- Species identification
- Large plates (up to150mm)