The traditional soft agar colony formation assay monitors anchorage-independent cell growth by measuring proliferation in a semisolid culture media in tissue culture dishes after 3-4 weeks, followed by manual counting of colonies. This method is cumbersome and not amenable to high throughput, and the manual counting of colonies is subjective because with varying colony sizes, it’s difficult to determine meaningful results. The CytoSelect™ 96-well Cell Transformation Assay (Cell Recovery Compatible) eliminates subjective manual counting of colonies with a much shorter assay time. Cells are incubated only 6-8 days in a semisolid agar media before being solubilized, lysed and detected by the provided colorimetric dye in a standard plate reader, making it a more quantitative and higher-throughput method. Additionally, the proprietary medium makes it possible to recover viable and intact cells for further downstream analysis. Each kit is sufficient for 96 tests in a microtiter plate.