Cultivating efficiency: high-throughput growth analysis of anaerobic bacteria in compact microplate readers.

We present a workflow that facilitates the production and analysis of growth curves for anaerobic microbes using small-footprint microplate readers and an R script. This workflow is a cost and space-effective solution to most high-throughput solutions for collecting growth data from anaerobic microbes. This technology can be used for applications where high throughput would advance discovery, including microbial isolation, bioprospecting, co-culturing, host-microbe interactions, and drug/toxin-microbial interactions.