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PRODUCTS NEWPRODUCTS
CHROMATOGRAPHY DATA SYSTEMS
Improved radiochromatography software
LabLogic Systems has released the first major revision of its radiochromatography software, Laura 4. Version 4.1 of the software supports Windows 7 and brings users more than one hundred improvements in total. These include powerful new display options, including 2D chromatogram display and even 3D display for DAD measurements. Another new feature is that images – structures for example – can now be included in the chromatogram. This function supports complementary systems such as ChemDraw.
The automatic peak finder in
Laura 4.1 has been re-designed and improved to support automatic data analysis, and the Active Counting Mode (ACM), which increases limits of detection by optimising counting conditions in real time, has a new noise reduction facility. New data extraction features include signal- to-noise values (per cent relative area and per cent relative height, for example) and the improved report designer makes it even easier for users to create report templates. Laura 4.1 continues Lablogic’s policy of making the program a single point of control for HPLC systems and detectors, with interfaces for the Agilent 1260 and 1290, BetaRAM 5 radio flow detector, FlowRAM and ScanRAM.
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IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING
Image analysis for digital pathology
Definiens has introduced its Tissue Studio 2.0, the latest version of
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the company’s image analysis software for digital pathology. First introduced in 2009, Tissue Studio is a comprehensive image analysis software for biomarker translational research. In a wide array of different tissue stains, the out-of-the-box software automatically and accurately detects and measures cells and sub-cellular components within regions of interest; it provides cell- by-cell quantification of protein expression and describes cellular morphology.
Along with improved processing
speed, version 2.0 of the software now includes a full range of functionality for the analysis of immunofluorescence tissue stains. Up to 12 immunofluorescence channels per image are supported. It also includes more accurate nucleus detection, and maintains
DATA ACQUISITION
LabView updated for 2010 National Instruments has introduced LabView 2010, the latest version of the graphical programming environment for design, test, measurement and control applications. LabView 2010 delivers new features such as off-the-shelf compiler technologies that execute code an average of 20 per cent faster, and a comprehensive marketplace for evaluating and purchasing add- on toolkits for easily integrating custom functionality into the platform. For field-programmable gate array (FPGA) users, LabView 2010 delivers a new IP Integration Node that makes it possible to integrate any third-party FPGA IP into LabView applications and is compatible with the Xilinx Core Generator. National Instruments
also implemented more than a dozen new features suggested by lead users through the LabView Idea Exchange, an online feedback forum that marks a significant new level of collaboration between NI R&D and customers.
Introduced in 1986, LabView abstracts the complexity of programming by giving users drag-and-drop, graphical function blocks and wires that resemble a flowchart to develop their sophisticated systems. LabView offers integration with thousands of hardware devices, provides hundreds of built-in libraries for advanced analysis and data visualisation and is scalable across multiple OSs and targets such as x86 processors, real-time OSs (RTOSs) and FPGAs.
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the system’s easy-to-use interface and streamlined workflow. With its ‘learn-by-example’ format, users train the software to identify representative regions of interest, and configure it to automatically identify cells and sub-cellular objects. Beside the analysis of whole virtual slides, Tissue Studio 2.0 also provides full support to process tissue micro arrays. Pathologists do not need prior computer programming, and can develop customised image analysis solutions in as little as 20 minutes. The company states that beta testers of the latest version of Tissue Studio 2.0 at the University of Edinburgh utilised the software in the cell-by-cell analyses of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence assays derived from cell cultures and tissue specimens. The
software successfully measures morphological changes to provide researchers with a detailed understanding of the dynamics of cellular change.
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SPECTROSCOPY
Supporting software for mass spectrometry Agilent Technologies has released a new version of its ICP-MS MassHunter Workstation software for the 7700 Series inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). The updated ICP-MS MassHunter Workstation provides an all-new interface for instrument control, method setup and sequencing on Agilent 7700 Series ICP-MS systems. The new software release also introduces innovative productivity and ease- of-use features such as a startup scheduler and batch-and-queue sequence control. Fewer screens and a flat user interface simplify menu navigation, and all essential information is at the operator’s fingertips. The result is software that is easy to learn and simple to operate.
A key feature of the new ICP-MS MassHunter software is the use of pre-set methods, which allow users to choose from pre-defined sets of operating and acquisition conditions for the analysis of well-characterised sample types. As well as defining the auto-tuning parameters and the plasma conditions to be used, the pre-set methods also pre-load the analyte list, select the internal standards, set the integration times and define the preferred cell mode and any correction equations required for each analyte. The result is
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