System and method for identifying biological growth media

摘要

A system and method for encoding and then identifying a growth media from among a plurality of different growth media. A method is disclosed that includes: providing a set of tagging agents that are distinct from each of the different growth media; adding to each different growth media a unique subset of the tagging agents selected from the set of tagging agents in order to encode each different growth media; and determining an identity of one of the different growth media by detecting an existence of each tagging agent in the set of tagging agents.