Culture apparatus, culture information management method, and computer readable medium storing program of same

A culture information management method using a computer coupled to a culture apparatus including a temperature-controlled room accommodating an incubation container incubating samples and maintaining the inside thereof in a predetermined environment condition, and an imaging section imaging the samples of the incubation container in the temperature-controlled room and generating data of a plurality of observing images, the culture information management method comprising:

• performing an image analyzing process on the data of the plurality of the observing images obtained by imaging the incubation container at different times and generating image analyzing data including morphologic information which indicates incubation states of the sample and rate-of-change information regarding the morphological information based on the observing images;
• storing a correspondence relationship between the incubation container and the image analyzing data to a storage medium;
• receiving an input of a first searching condition regarding the morphological information and an input of a second searching condition regarding the rate-of-change information by the computer;
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• conducting a search for an incubation container which meets the first searching condition and the second searching condition and determining whether or not the environment condition of a sample accommodated in the incubation container is acceptable based on a ranking of environment information for each incubation container from among a plurality of incubation containers being accommodated in the temperature-controlled room based on the image analyzing data of the storage medium.