microbiome insights

Choose the right PreBioM plate based on your needs.

These plates consist of a curated selection of prebiotic substrates of various molecular weights designed to characterize bacterial species and their metabolic pathways. The PreBioM plates, combined with our Odin family of instruments and software, provide a high throughput phenotypic solution compatible with a wide range of species, including the obligate anaerobes inhabiting the gut microbiome as well as microbial communities.

While sequencing is often used as the standard method for defining new strains or isolates, understanding the phenotypic profile of a given microbe is key to understanding its function and the role it plays in a microbiome community. This platform allows for functional characterization to help understand how a range of different substrates support the growth of microbes or communities of interest.