Variety of adaptive control schemes
Culture has a variety of fermentation process control methods that can be incorporated into screening processes. These include automated feed triggers and dynamic control during the fed-batch based on parameters such as pH, OUR or RQ. Customers can specify an adaptive control scheme, and Culture will build it into the bioprocess recipe.
Capacity
Culture’s high-throughput bioreactor capacity means that there doesn’t need to be a tradeoff between structuring replicates based on statistics and the throughput of strains. Culture’s capacity enables you to screen a larger number of strains in a shorter period of time.
Precision fermentation control
Each of Culture’s bioreactors is equipped with features to ensure precision fermentation control, reducing biological variability as a consequence of imprecise process control. Lower biological variability between replicates can also increase the statistical confidence in results. These features include gases delivered via mass flow controllers and up to 5 feeds delivered via peristaltic pump with scale feedback control. Published mass balance data on every run also ensures quality data.
Accessible data and time to analyze it
Culture’s Cloud Console allows you to design, monitor and analyze experiments from your laptop. Console enables access to data from single or multiple runs and allows for grouping and graphing of data for easy analysis. Graphs can be saved and shared in workspaces to allow rapid analysis of strain performance and collaboration across groups. While Culture manages the execution of experiments, you can spend time analyzing data rather than troubleshooting reactors.
For more on strain screening, including key challenges to keep in mind and best practices:
