Fig. 1
From: Automation assisted anaerobic phenotyping for metabolic engineering
DBTL cycle in metabolic engineering and layout of phenotyping platform used in this study. a Typical decisions and tasks involved in each step of the DBTL cycle for strain engineering. The ‘test’ phase remains a bottleneck due to the time and costs incurred in phenotyping a large number of strains/enzymes. b Deck layout of liquid handling platform used in this study. Relatively few equipment can be assembled and repurposed to establish an effective high-throughput phenotyping platform