Colony Counters for Colony Forming Assays

The Colony Forming Assay and colony counting is universally recognized as the gold standard method for measuring the effects of radiation, chemotherapeutic drugs and other agents on cell viability. However, manually counting the resulting cell colonies is a thankless and laborious task in which consistent objectivity is difficult to achieve.

GelCount™

GelCount is an easy-to-use, PC software-operated colony counter that automates the detection, counting and analysis of mammalian cell colonies in Petri dishes, flasks and multi-well plates.

GelCount provides a powerful and cost-effective alternative to the subjective and labour-intensive task of manual colony counting in laboratory techniques based on the colony forming assay, also referred to as the clonogenic assay, the cell survival assay or the tumor cloning assay.

GelCount will be of interest primarily to cancer biologists involved in drug discovery, radiobiology or toxicology research although it may also be used to count/analyze bacterial and yeast colonies on agar plates.