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Microbial growth analyzer
Bioscreen C displays growth curves
and microbiological calculations in MS Excel.
Almost any strain can be used. 200 samples at time.
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Computer Requirements - Microbiology Reader Bioscreen C
Processor
A recommended processor speed is 1.5 GHz or more.
RAM Memory
For short experiments i.e.
for experiments with less than 100 kinetical points (OD measurement cycles)
at least 1 GB of a total physical memory (RAM memory) is needed.
For longer experiments i.e.
for experiments with more than 100 kinetical points at least 2 GB
of a total physical memory (RAM memory) is recommended to use.
Here the more is better.
A RAM memory of 3 GB or 4 GB (as compared to 2 GB) permits to keep more software
open at a time and to handle large xls files quicker and more easily.
Hard Disk
Hard disk
recommended size is 20 GB or more.
Operating System
Supported operating systems:
- MS Windows 98
- MS Windows 98SE
- MS Windows ME
- MS Windows NT4(SP6)
- MS Windows 2000
- MS Windows XP
- MS Windows Server 2003 is accepted
Non-Supported operating systems:
- MS Windows Vista (support is coming in 2008)
Required MS Office Software
Supported MS Office software:
- MS Office 97
- MS Office 2000
- MS Office 2002 (MS Office XP)
- MS Office 2003
Non-Supported MS Office software:
- MS Office 2007
MS Office 2007 can be used for a data processing only.
It can be done in a following way:
at first an experiment run is done by using an earlier version of MS Office
and then a produced xls file is imported into a MS Office 2007.
A software Research Express collects OD data directly into MS
Excel worksheet and displays graph and performs calculations with MS Excel.
Notes
During a Bioscreen C run several annoying MS Excel messages e.g.
"Excel is waiting for another application to complete and OLE action"
may jump up. Software Research Express deletes these messages automatically. If
a computer is under specifications (or contains a defective com board) then an
experiment can stop with freezing of a computer screen.
Rebooting of a computer before a start of an experiment permits to get a
maximum amount of available physical memory for run.
