by Jeffrey M Perkel
TECHNOLOGY	Biology by the Numbers Mathematical software packages and programming languages bring quantitative rigor to a qualitative science Email: Jeffrey M Perkel - jperkel@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(12):32 Published   20 June 2005

When the graduate students and postdocs in Martin Wilson's lab at the University of California, Davis, need to do image processing, they look to an unlikely source. Instead of off-the-shelf image analysis software, Wilson's team, which studies synapses in the retina, uses home-brewed algorithms running within the mathematical package Matlab, from The Mathworks, Inc., in Natick, Mass.

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