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QPix 420 Colony Picking System User Guide
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Creating and Editing Picking Processes
The procedures to create and edit standard or regional picking processes are very similar. The
regional picking process has more options to define the regions for picking. If this is the first
picking process, you must edit or create a Sanitise profile to use with the picking process. See
Creating and Editing Sanitise Profiles on page 33 .
Creating and editing a picking process involves the following procedures:
Opening the Picking Window on page 40
Selecting Picking Routines on page 40
Selecting Barcode Options and Filter Pairs for Fluorescent Imaging on page 41
Setting Destination Plate Options on page 44
Selecting the Head and Sanitizing Options on page 45
on page 45
Viewing the Settings Summary on page 46
Changing the Picking Head on page 61
Note: Some steps that are included in these procedures might not be available,
depending on the features included with the instrument and license.
Opening the Picking Window
To open the Picking window:
1. From the Navigation window under Picking Processes, double-click
Picking.
2. In the Picking window, click Picking Type to view the picking type options.
Select White Light to use only white light to illuminate and identify the colonies to pick.
Select White Light and Fluorescent to use white light to illuminate and identify
colonies, and fluorescent light to determine the colonies to pick. This option is available
only for instruments with a fluorescence imaging module.
3. Click Apply.
4. Click Start to home the drives and display the Routines window.
Selecting Picking Routines
To select a picking routine:
1. In the Routines window, select to create a new routine or to edit a routine.
To create a new routine, click New Routine.
To edit a routine, click Run Existing Routine and then select the name of the routine
from the Select Routine list.
If you want to run the routine without making changes, select the Skip Steps check box.
2. Click Next to go to the next step.
If you select to create a new routine or to edit a routine, see Selecting Barcode Options
and Filter Pairs for Fluorescent Imaging on page 41 .
If you select the Skip Steps check box to run the routine without making changes, see
Viewing the Settings Summary on page 46 .
Note: You can import, export, and delete routines in the Routines window.