With Bruker’s innovative technologies, we serve the needs of our customers with instruments and assays that meet the demand of food and industrial microbiologists. Microorganism identification to the species level is a key task of microbiology. The MALDI Biotyper® is a rapid MALDI-TOF MS identification solution starting from colony material. MALDI-TOF MS determines the unique proteomic fingerprint of an organism and matches characteristic patterns with an extensive reference library. The IR Biotyper® allows same-day strain discrimination and cluster analysis of contaminants or production strains. This instrument is Bruker’s infrared spectroscopy solution for strain discrimination.