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| − | <p> We also wondered how easy it would be for someone else to assemble the Mini on their own. We gave the parts and <a href= "https://2017.igem.org/Team:IISc-Bangalore/Hardware/Documentation">Construction Manual</a> to one of the freshmen we had interacted with as part of our <a href = "https://2017.igem.org/Team:IISc-Bangalore/HP/Silver#hands-on">outreach program</a>. In less than two hours, Arpit was holding a brand new working GCODe Mini!</p> | + | <p> We also wondered how easy it would be for someone else to assemble the Mini on their own. We gave the parts and the <a href= "https://2017.igem.org/Team:IISc-Bangalore/Hardware/Documentation">Construction Manual</a> to one of the freshmen we had interacted with as part of our <a href = "https://2017.igem.org/Team:IISc-Bangalore/HP/Silver#hands-on">outreach program</a>. In less than two hours, Arpit was holding a brand new working GCODe Mini!</p> |
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Scientist Boi is frustrated because he's been doing a growth curve all day. If only there existed an affordable device that could do his growth curves for him...
... Enter GCODe! An affordable device to automate your growth curves! Scientist Boi is happy now.
GCODe Mini
GCODe Pro
Results
As soon as the GCODe Mini was assembled and calibrated, we put it to work. To find out whether GCODe could actually measure optical densities in a reproducible manner, we tested it in Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty’s lab under the supervision of Jeswin Joseph, her PhD student. And it worked!
For the full details, please see our Results page.
Constructability
We also wondered how easy it would be for someone else to assemble the Mini on their own. We gave the parts and the Construction Manual to one of the freshmen we had interacted with as part of our outreach program. In less than two hours, Arpit was holding a brand new working GCODe Mini!
Cost
We have gone to great pains to make GCODe as cheap as possible, by avoiding expensive techniques such as 3d printing and using low-cost and widely available components, such as the Arduino, and simple servo motors. The Mini costs roughly $80 dollars and the GCODe Pro costs an incredibly low $250 ! To put that number in perspective, consider that the Bioscreen C, a commercially available cell culture system, costs an eye-popping $25000, literally a hundred times as much!
Praise for the Mini
"We used to spend days standardizing… just to catch that middle lag phase in a diauxic growth curve… if only I had the GCODe Mini back then!" - Sai Matha, Biology Lab Instructor, IISc
"We have the only Bioscreen in the building, so people keep trooping in and out to use it to run growth curves. Sure, we had the money to buy one, but what about other people? - Now there is GCODe!" - Shahnawaz Aziz, PhD student at the Varshney Lab, IISc
"I would love to buy it - just waiting for the version with two test tubes!" - Dr. Neha Bahl, Biology Lab Instructor, IISc
"I'm gonna use the Mini for all my experiments now!" - Rishi, PhD student at the Molecular Pathogenesis Lab, IISc, where we tested the GCODe Mini
Continue to learn more about the Mini or the Pro insert mini image, pro image which are the links