rsucgang at bcm.tmc.edu (Richard S Sucgang) wrote:
>>>NIH Image should have no problem with this.
>Just convert to grayscale, and then use threshold to convert
>to a 1bit image, and use the count particles command.
>>Karthi Ramachandran (karthi at deakin.edu.au) wrote:
>: Hi everyone,
>>: We are doing some genetics experiments that requirs counting colonies on 100s
>: of plates each time. We have the facility for capturing images of these plates
>>: and storing them digitally. I am wondering if there are any software
>: commercial/ shareware/ freeware that will count the colonies from these
>: images?
>>: Any pointers will be greatly appreciated
>>: Thanx very much
>>: Karthi. R
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>: Research Fellow, Rm. No. SA136
>: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
>: Faculty of Science and Technology Phone (Off) (052) 271 406
>: Deakin University Phone (Res) (052) 419 806
>: Geelong, Victoria Fax (052) 272 022
>: Australia 3217 e-mail karthi at deakin.edu.au>: Home page http://www.deakin.edu.au/~karthi/
If you're on the PC platform, PC_Image from Foster Findlay Associates will do the job for you l, it's not free though.
You can check them out and download a demo from www.ffaltd.demon.co.uk
Regards
Andy.
Andy Hunt
