The Bacteria Classification Assistant (BCA) is a program that allows the user to identify unknown strains of bacteria from images of the bacterial colony taken through a microscope. The BCA will have the user input the colony image and a few parameters into the program. By processing the image, the program will isolate four key properties of the colony: area of the colony, colour, colony shape characteristics and colony edge characteristics. Once this data has been collected, the BCA will compare the data to a stored database and will return possible candidates. The database of stored images will have functions to allow the user to search for specific characteristics via a text input and will be expandable by the user. 
