colony-counter

A little helper I made while taking AP Biology. It uses OpenCV to detect and count E. coli bacteria colonies. The default settings are optimized for counting pGLO colonies under UV light.

Disclaimer: The supplied image, test.jpg, has been modified using image editing software to remove names written on the agar plate.

Try it here

I'm currently self hosting Colony Counter for anyone to use here: colony-counter.server.sigmondkukla.dev.

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Usage

1. Ensure that a relatively recent version of Python 3 is installed
2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Run streamlit run app.py and your browser should open to the application