Chuck Miller wrote:
>> Hi Hamdi,
>> The BIONET.TOXICOLOGY newsgroup is archived and is searchable. The subject
> of LD50s has come up several times in the past. Try doing a search using
> LD50 as a keyword. Regarding programs to calculate LD50, I am sure some
> exist, although I don't know of any offhand. Most of the commonly used
> graphing programs (SigmaPlot, Cricket Graph, SlideWrite, etc.) can be used
> to do this.
>> Best of results,
>> Chuck
>> Dr. Charles A. Miller, III, rellim at mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> Dept. Environmental Health Sciences, SL29
> Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research and
> Tulane Univ. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
> 1430 Tulane Ave.
> New Orleans, LA 70112
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The best way I've found is to normalize your response data to 100%, then
fit a logistic curve to the data. The inflection point is the 50%
reduction or 50% death or 50% inhibition level, depending on what your
system is testing. I use KaleidaGraph, whicd allows you to define the
curve fitting equation, which may need "massaging" at times.
Please see my paper--
M. E. Fuller and K. M. Scow. 1996. Effects of toluene on
microbially-mediated processes involved in the soil nitrogen cycle.
Microbial Ecology 32(2): 171-184.
for more details.
-Mark
