A program for counting CFUs in petri dishes


Keywords
science, microbiology, petri, colony, engineering, lab, labs
License
Apache-2.0
Install
pip install p-tree==0.1.12

Documentation

p-tree 0.1.14

About

This package is used to count the CFUs in petri dishes.
In order to use it you must provide it with a shared dropbox link to a directory containing the images in a png format.
Only images must be contained in the directory no subdirectories.

THIS

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TO THIS

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If it misses a few its ok! it gets them by cutting and rotating the original image!

Installation

This package requires python==3.6

to install type:

pip install p-tree

or

pip install --upgrade p-tree

Instuctions

  1. Copy the example script bellow and run it.
  2. An image will pop-up containing a petri dish with some (or all colonies circled).
  3. If not all are circled close the image and enter n in the Accept? message of the prompt.
  4. Enter after that the pixel size of the colony (estimate). The x and y axis are numbered.
  5. Once the pixel size is added a new image will pop-up. If satisfied close the image and type y in the Accept? field. If not satisfied go back to 3.

Example Script

from p_tree.run import CountColonies

if __name__ == '__main__':
    url = 'https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vq4wb9fd9k1fz49/AADLR3IIgj8lMWs8m9QLzdPoa?dl=1'
    cc = CountColonies(url=url)
    dfs = cc.main()
    print(dfs)

IMPORTANT (for now)

At the end of your dropbox-link it says ?dl=0. change it to ?dl=1.

TODO

  1. Provide rotate angle option and number of rotations.
  2. Accept directory as input and not only dropbox shared link.
  3. Save DataFrames to csv.
  4. Output analytics such as bell curves (mean and std) for all petries.
  5. modify makefile to pip install reqs.
  6. modify makefile to unistall reqs.
  7. modify makefile to build and deploy.
  8. convert it into a flask extension for www.engineer-it.org.
  9. make video on youtube on how to use it.
  10. show jupyter notebook example steps.
  11. include images