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Scan It

Silk Scientific's UN-SCAN-IT software digitizes scanned gels.

Silk Scientific's UN-SCAN-IT gel software converts any photographic scanner into a high-speed gel densitometer, allowing researchers to digitize gel images for a fraction of the cost of an expensive densitometer. The system works by converting image files such as BMP, PCX, JPG, and TIFF into pixel density/darkness values. In addition, the software converts hard-copy graphs, including strip charts and instrumental output, into digital (x,y) data. The software is accurate, fast, and easy to...