Cell colony counter called CoCoNut

Publishing date: 2018-12-20

Published on: PLOS ONE

summary: CoCoNut removes the need for slow and eye-straining manual counting of viable colonies under a microscope. It’s a semi-automated, image-based cell colony counting setup that combines 3D-printed hardware and an ImageJ plugin. The authors demonstrated the method with two cell types and successfully distinguished colonies. Of note is their approach to calibration which was specifically designed to be user-friendly and robust.

authors: Mattia Siragusa, Stefano Dall’Olio, Pil M. Fredericia, Mikael Jensen, Torsten Groesser

link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205823

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