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GCODe Mini
What is the GCODe mini?
The GCODe Mini is a neat little device that automates your growth curves. It comes as a sleek black acrylic box that houses a test tube that will hold your culture. Connect the Mini to your laptop via USB, tell it what to do with our associated software, place it in the shaker-incubator, let it warm up for a while, press Start, and sit back and relax while the GCODe mini does your growth curves for you!
What can it do?
The GCODe mini comes loaded with some very cool features, like:
- Taking Optical Density measurements at specified time intervals
- Plotting your growth curve for you, in real time.
- Sending a pushbullet notification directly to your mobile phone or any other device when your culture reaches a particular OD
All this, while costing less than $80 USD! And what's more, YOU can build one with our instructions right here
If you're interested to know how our tiny little machine holds up against a state of the art spectrophotometer, look at our results page.
How does it work?
The opaque acrylic casing houses an LED and a photodiode. The LED emits light close to a particular wavelength. The light then passes through the contents of the test tube and gets absorbed. This absorption is proportional to the concentration of the sample. [Beer-lambert's law] The photodiode detects the transmitted light intensity and calculates the optical density (OD) of the sample.
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
