Affordable colony counting

The aCOLyte is an affordable semi-automated (Click’n’Count) or a fully automated (SuperCount), colony counting device. Using aCOLyte greatly improves efficiency, reliability and productivity of total plate count applications over traditional counting methods.

With Click’n’Count, you just point at each colony, click to count and the data is automatically recorded to a computer, saving you time with keying in your results. If you want higher sample throughput, you can choose SuperCount, allowing you to automatically count colonies in under a second.

Using both versions of aCOLyte you can count colonies on spread, pour or spiral plates and instantly store your images and results in a professional report format with the time and date recorded for GLP/GMP compliance. You can also automatically transfer your numerical data to Excel (optional extra) for further analysis, ensuring that your data is accurate and free from any re-keying errors.

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Why buy this product

• Low Cost

  aCOLyte is a low cost entry into electronic colony counting. Using the Click‘n’Count or the SuperCount, results are saved on a PC enabling report generation and accuracy to be improved over manual methods.

• Automated

  With the SuperCount plates can be counted rapidly. Typically plates can be counted accurately in under 1 second.

• Image display

  Unlike any manual system the aCOLyte shows you the image on your computer screen. Results can also be displayed.

• Powerful algorithm

  The aCOLyte uses the powerful Synbiosis algorithm for accurate counting. A colony separator automatically splits touching colonies to further improve the accuracy of the counting process. 

• Sensitive CCD camera

  An integral CCD colour camera can be adjusted to increase the sensitivity of the detection enabling even the smallest of colonies to be imaged. 

• Switchable lighting

  The LED lighting can be switched from upper to lower options allowing for the detection of light and dark media types.

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Affordable colony counting

Applications

aCOLyte can be used for total viable counts in many environmental, food monitoring, pharmaceutical, clinical, and molecular biology applications.

Examples would include:

• E.coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Salmonella spp, and mixed organisms on plate count or nutrient agar.

• Staphylococcus aureus, and mixed organisms on plate count agar, columbia blood agar, or nutrient agar.

• E.coli on LB medium, and yeast on potato dextrose agar.