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High Throughput Yeast Strain Phenotyping with Droplet-Based RNA Sequencing
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High Throughput Yeast Strain Phenotyping with Droplet-Based RNA Sequencing

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ColonyInsight automated workflow reveals complex dominance in mixed yeast colonies

Tünde Gaizer1, Bence T Gaizer1, Bíborka Pillér1

  • 1Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary.

Iscience
|August 1, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
S. cerevisiaeco-culturecolony growthfluorescent imaginghigh-throughputmicrobial interactionsyeast

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