Advanced Image Processing

Traditional 2D gel analysis packages require time consuming and tedious manual corrections of spot detection and matching, adding significantly to the time you need to analyze an experiment. With Delta2D, any "spot painting" or "trimming" by hand is obsolete. Spot matching, one of the major bottlenecks in traditional packages, works automatically and reliably since corresponding spots already have the same position on all gels after warping.
Defining a warping strategy allows for easy organization of the whole set of warpings needed to analyze your project. Read more about Warping Strategies

Background in the gel images is computed automatically using a very reliable image-region approach. Delta2D can cope with inhomogeneous and strong backgrounds. You can check the background detection by displaying the gel image with and without background, or by showing only the background image.

With image fusion you get a synthetic image that is a pixel-by-pixel combination of a whole stack of gels. The result looks like a real gel image, making it perfect for combining replicate gels into one average image or visualizing analysis results.

Delta2D supports virtually all scanners and imagers on the market today, with image formats including TIFF, IMG, GEL, and JPEG. Scanner-specific grayscale calibrations used in the images are taken into account when spot quantitation is performed.

Related Features and Benefits