Preclinical research metabolic cage PhenoMaster

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The PhenoMaster Next Generation (NG) is the latest and most robust and versatile metabolic screening platform on the market. PhenoMaster offers modularity, flexibility, and the highest precision and accuracy at an affordable price. The latest innovations in small sensor technologies, handling, and AAALAC compliance are guaranteed. The new Hardware and Software platform is not comparable to older generations of PhenoMaster and vastly more modern and economical in usage compared to competing systems. The analysis features tabulation and visualization of all raw data points and derived parameters such as EE and RER while also allowing Matlab, Python code, and R-scripts such as via CalR to be executed. Simple analysis can be performed in the PhenoMaster software that can be freely copied, and advanced analysis and publication-quality graphics and statistical analysis are performed under Microcal Origin. The origin apps are free of charge and part of the PhenoMaster Data package. In PhenoMaster, all data from sensors at the cage level are digitized on-board in the sensor housing and collected by the cage controller. The cage controller is the smart brain of every cage and powers all sensors. Sensors use a modern bus architecture that allows them to be removed and added without interfering with other sensors’ data collection ability. From the cage controller, a single Ethernet connection cable that also carries the cage power (POE = power over Ethernet) submits the data to the computer/server. Cages and Computers must be on the same intranet/subnet.