Customised Barcoding for Ames Testing

Perceptive Instruments Ltd AMES Study Manager for the Bacterial Reverse Mutation Test now comes with a fully customisable barcoding system.

An integrated suite of software specifically designed to meet the requirements of safety assessment laboratories, CROs, medical device and chemical manufacturers, AMES Study Manager (ASM) can be combined with the Sorcerer colony counting system to create a complete streamlined package for AMES testing.

A unique barcode is assigned to each experimental treatment plate alongside positive and negative controls, increasing the rate at which the results can be processed from the plate counts and minimising the risk of manual plate-reading errors. Labels are then generated which include the barcode and lab sample ID only, or additionally other customised information such as the bacterial strain, metabolic activation agent, concentration and solvent volume. Following incubation under the appropriate experimental conditions, the software-controlled barcode reader scans the plates and leads the cursor in the ASM Plate Editor window to jump to the relevant plate for automatic counting instructed by a single key press.