Case Study: Zymergen accelerates microbe engineering with Molecular Devices QPix colony pickers

Zymergen uses Molecular Devices QPix to power 600+ colony picker installations

Zymergen, a technology company using high-throughput biology to design and test microbes, faced the challenge of rapidly generating novel chemicals and advanced materials. They required a solution to quickly and accurately identify and pick large numbers of microbial colonies to support their industrial fermentation pipeline. Molecular Devices provided their QPix 400 Series Microbial Colony Pickers to address this need.

The solution implemented by Molecular Devices involved integrating their QPix 420 Systems as a critical link in Zymergen's microbe engineering workflow. These systems allowed Zymergen to identify and pick colonies quickly, accurately, and reliably, and they integrated seamlessly with the company's laboratory information management system (LIMS). This enabled Zymergen to achieve their goal of generating novel products much faster and at a lower cost than previous approaches.

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