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Colonyzer
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Image analysis software for estimating cell density in arrayed microbial cultures growing on solid agar.  This module contains a set of functions for spot location, image segmentation and spot size estimation, suitable for quantifying culture size/cell density for libraries of microbial cultures growing on a solid agar surface.

Website describing current, stable release:
<http://research.ncl.ac.uk/colonyzer/>

Open access manuscript describing Colonyzer algorithms:
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-11-287>

Open access video and manuscript demonstrating the use of Colonyzer within a Quantitative Fitness Analysis workflow
<http://www.jove.com/video/4018>


Contributors
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Conor Lawless <http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/conor.lawless/>
Darren Wilkinson <http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/d.j.wilkinson/>