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or "trimming" by hand is obsolete.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.
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