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- Category: scientific Analysis Software
UltraQuant Image Analysis Software
UltraQuant is windows based software application for the analysis of fluorescence and chemiluminescence gel images. It features a modern and intuitive user interface to easily navigate through the software. Our approach is to eliminate confusing menus and replace them by toolbars and wizard dialogs that guide users through their analysis. This helps scientists to achieve their results quicker and easier. Recent advances in the sensor technologies have enabled scientific imagers to capture more information and store them in terms of both special resolution and bit depth. UltraQuant was inherently designed to handle these high bit images with ease. All the image information is maintained throughout the analysis thus increasing the validity of the data. Most of the common image file formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc. are supported for both read and write operations. Image adjustment such as cropping, rotating, resizing and many more are incorporated to allow the user to focus on the area of the image they are analyzing. Brightness, contrast, and gamma correction allows the users to better find faint features in their image without altering the data.
UltraQuant contains a complete set of tools for annotating and documenting the image. Text, labels, arrows and geometric shapes of various colors and thickness can be overlaid onto the image. Annotated image can be stored alongside of the image or cut and pasted to a word processing application for publication. The real power of UltraQaunt lies in its user-friendly yet powerful analysis tools. It includes advanced image processing tools to automatically detect lanes and bands, subtract their background signal and determine the intensity, location and other vital statistics of the image. The data from all or a selected set of lanes and bands are summarized in tables which can be exported into Excel for further analysis. A graphical presentation of the lane profile and also be generated and again exported for user analysis. Real world values such as known intensities or MW ladders can be assigned to lanes and band to calibrate the rest of the band data.