Metabolic fingerprints develop rapidly often providing results in 4 hours or less.  These results can be automatically read and recorded in seconds. Intelligent software compensates automatically for different color/turbidity intensities, eliminating the subjectivity of visual interpretation. The patterns are then compared to an extensive database for final identification.

Biolog’s innovative PID (Progressive Identification) pattern matching algorithm considers the whole reaction pattern and an organism’s preferred carbon sources for an identification. Strain relationships based on carbon source utilization can be displayed as dendrograms or cluster diagrams.

The Identification Systems have applications in all fields of Microbiology