By Dr. Barry Hall When using GrowthRates, it is essential to specify either a blank OD (-b option) or a blank well (-w option) on the command line so that all OD readings can be corrected for the absorbance of… Read More ›
GrowthRates
GrowthRates 6.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of GrowthRates 6.0, our flagship product. Version 6.0 includes one exciting new feature and support for an additional plate reader that is perfect for measurements of anaerobic microbial growth. New Feature GrowthRates 6.0… Read More ›
We’ve Launched a YouTube Channel
In an effort to ensure that labs and technicians have the latest information on Growth Rates and how to analyze the data that is delivered by high-throughput microtiter plate readers, we launched a new YouTube channel, with a series of… Read More ›
Read the GrowthRates Technical Brief
Read a Short Summary of the Paper and Program that Has Been Cited in More than 300 Published Papers As a professional microbiologist you understand the importance of accurately measuring the growth rates of the organisms you work with. The… Read More ›
BRI Launches New Software Program CGR2 for Comparing Growth Rates
We’ve just released a new companion tool for the GrowthRates program called CGR2 (Compare GrowthRates), available today for licensing.
CGR2 is a statistical program specifically designed to assess the results of a growth rate experiment that has been analyzed using the GrowthRates program.
The Origins of the GrowthRates Program
Learn about the origins of the GrowthRates program, including the resulting published paper, which has been cited more than 300 times.
At a Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting in 2012, Dr. Hall met a graduate student named Hande Acar and spent some time discussing her work in the lab at the Institute of Science & Technology Austria. She described the wonderful new microplate reader they were using to monitor the growth of bacterial cultures. The reader could automatically follow the growth of 96 cultures for hours, or overnight, and report the density of each culture at specified reading intervals.
The problem that Hande encountered was that it took days to do the calculations that would turn the resulting raw data into useful growth rates.
Welcome to the Bellingham Research Institute
We’ve been busy publishing papers and working on software tools that make it easier to analyze microbial growth for industries such as beer brewing, production of high-value industrial chemicals, development of analytical devices for screening infections, and assessing contamination of… Read More ›