I've read something about it in one of the issues of Nature in the past
40 days. They have data about new software. I could give more precise
data on monday.
Hope this helps
Mario Borgnia
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On 7 Mar 1997, biochimie wrote:
> In article <5fevbl$1pt at taurus.fccc.edu>, sauder at castor.fccc.edu says...
> >
> >In article <aisoai-0203972106110001 at ppp17.yokohama2.dtinet.or.jp>
>aisoai at agc.co.jp (ISOAI Atsushi) writes:
> >>In article <5f9ubd$rca at dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>, kschap at ix.netcom.com> >>(Kane L. Schaphorst) wrote:
> >>
> >>.....
> >>
> >>> While I believe these imaging systems may be adequate for figure
> >>> composition and image archival, I am not certain about this. Furthermore,
> >>> I do not know of any decent freely available or commercially available
> >>> software that can perform quantitative analysis on these images. To date,
> >>> the only image analysis
> >>>needed to perform is densitometry by either profile or volume analysis.
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>I can not recommend the best imaging systems for your purpose,
> >>but if you have PC and scanner why not you try NIHImage.
> >>It's free but (I think) it's one of the best image software in
> >>the world. You can get it from:
> >>URL: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/> >>Please try it. I hope it is useful for you.
> >>Atsushi Isoai, Ph.D. <aisoai at agc.co.jp | aisoai at yk.rim.or.jp>
> >
> > NIH-Image runs on the Mac. There was a beta version of a port
> >to the PC called Scion Image, I think. There's also a program called
> >ImageTool. Check out these URLs:
> > http://ddsdx.uthscsa.edu/dig/itdesc.html> > http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/default.html> >
> > Both these programs can do densitometry.
> >--
> About The PC version of NIH Image: It's a Alpha version and we can't seriously
> rely on it (bugs !). You CAN'T do quantitative densitometry on proteins or DNA
> patterns with ImageTool !
> May be you can use the following solutions :
> 1)A (very) good tabletop scanner (notice that the BioRad GS700 is no more than
> an AGFA ARCUS II)
> 2)A Image analysis software. I'm testing some of them:
> 1D-SCAN from Scanalytics (http://www.cspi.com/scanalytics/index.htm)
> SIGMAL-GEL from Jandel (http://www.jandel.com/)
> ImagePro Plus from Media Cybernectics (http://www.mediacy.com/mediahm.htm)
> I know that Bioscan offers this kind of
> solutions (http://www.bioscan.com/index.shtml)
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