Robot-trifle: A robotic system for automated combinatorial growth phenotyping

Kemball, Jeremy David

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Title

Robot-trifle: A robotic system for automated combinatorial growth phenotyping

Author(s)

Kemball, Jeremy David

Issue Date

2017-12-13

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Jensen, Paul

Department of Study

Bioengineering

Discipline

Bioengineering

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• Automation
• Metabolic profiling
• Robotics

Abstract

This project, robot-trifle, is an analysis pipeline for streamlining the automated construction of minimal chemically-defined media for microorganisms known to grow in culture. The first part of the pipeline analyzes known growth data to produce media elimination experiments that are planned and executed by the second and third sections. This software package aims to streamline metabolic profiling by automating the extensive bookkeeping and manual labor required to perform dozens of independent growth experiments. The metabolic profile of an organism can help inform metabolic reconstructions, community metabolism analysis, and genetic metabolism inference.

Graduation Semester

2017-12

Type of Resource

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Copyright 2017 Jeremy Kemball

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