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Anytime BSW,
Still here long and strong. I'm glad to see that the MIT1000 and the Bardot are pairing up for some research in an academic setting. They are very similar in the technology, the MIT1000 identifies single organisms and the Bardot uses the same forward scatter to identify colonies of bacteria, which is more complex and takes longer. That is a drawback of the Bardot . Luckily Dr. Haavig patented the process of identifying single organisms years before his alma mater Purdue developed their machine. What's interesting is that the Purdue dept. of food safety seems to be working on an algorithm for a non-exhaustive library using supervised learning of identification. Meaning that the machine learns as it goes to identify different sub-types of a particular bacterium. I haven't seen any material use of this yet though.I'm curious to see if Dr. Haavig will be involved in this since identifier algorithms are his forte as evidenced by previous work. We will have to wait and see.