Automated micropalaeontology MANTA

The platform MANTA (Microfossil Analyses: New Technologies & Applications) brings together at CEREGE the digital and optical tools needed for automated recognition of microscopic organisms.

Microscopes are automated, allowing the movement of samples while managing the focus. High performance digital cameras capture images. Digital tools, based on artificial intelligence, isolate, identify and measure the particles.

Automated foraminiferal sorting machines, developed at CEREGE, are also available: they can be used to isolate, identify and collect individuals from this group of microorganisms for subsequent chemical analysis.

The groups studied are coccolithophores, foraminifera, radiolarians, pollens, microcharcoals and diatoms.

With five upright microscopes, one inverted microscope, two stereomicroscopes, and a foraminiferal sorting robot, the Microautomate platform is equipped for fast and efficient routine work.