PetriDish

PetriDish: Open-Source Biology Experiment Automation Platform

Automate biology experiments with PetriDish, a software platform for designing, running, and analyzing experiments involving microfluidics, microscopy, and image analysis.

What is PetriDish?

PetriDish is an open-source platform aimed at automating biology experiments. It includes both software and hardware components to help researchers design, execute, and analyze a wide range of life science experiments.

On the hardware side, PetriDish leverages microfluidics and optics to build compact devices for handling liquids and imaging cells and organisms. These devices automate tedious and error-prone manual work, allowing experiments to run 24/7.

The PetriDish software includes tools for designing microfluidic chips, controlling fluid flows during an experiment, capturing microscopy images and videos, and analyzing the resulting data. The platform is optimized for common experimental techniques in cell biology, microbiology, and synthetic biology.

All of the PetriDish software and hardware designs are open source, allowing customization and extension by end users. Researchers can even design their own reactorchips for specific experimental needs. The goal of PetriDish is to make automation accessible to labs without engineering expertise, facilitating reproducible and scalable science.

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