Analysis of electrophoretic bands in a substrate
First Claim
1. A method for improving analysis of electrophoretic bands in a substrate, the method comprisingreceiving a first image of the substrate and a second image of the substrate, the first image comprising a plurality of first electrophoretic bands captured by a first visualizing means, and the second image comprising a plurality of second electrophoretic bands captured by a second visualizing means, where the vertical position of each of the plurality of first electrophoretic bands is associated with a predefined molecular weight such that the first image represents a vertical weight scale;
- creating a layered composite image where the first image defines a first layer of the layered composite image and the second image defines a second layer of said layered composite image; and
analyzing the layered composite image by a molecular weight analysis and a densitometry analysis, where the molecular weight analysis includes performing a molecular weight determination by comparing information between the first image and the second image as it exists in the layered composite image, and where the densitometry analysis includes performing a densitometry determination by comparing information only within the second layer.
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Abstract
A method and system to enhance analysis of electrophoretic bands by overlaying only the pixels of interest. The overlaid pixels are superimposed as a layer above, i.e., in the foreground of, the overlaid image, i.e., in the background. A user employs the superimposed pixels for molecular weight determination and is still able to generate densitometry analysis of the remaining pixels in the overlaid image.
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1. A method for improving analysis of electrophoretic bands in a substrate, the method comprising
receiving a first image of the substrate and a second image of the substrate, the first image comprising a plurality of first electrophoretic bands captured by a first visualizing means, and the second image comprising a plurality of second electrophoretic bands captured by a second visualizing means, where the vertical position of each of the plurality of first electrophoretic bands is associated with a predefined molecular weight such that the first image represents a vertical weight scale; -
creating a layered composite image where the first image defines a first layer of the layered composite image and the second image defines a second layer of said layered composite image; and analyzing the layered composite image by a molecular weight analysis and a densitometry analysis, where the molecular weight analysis includes performing a molecular weight determination by comparing information between the first image and the second image as it exists in the layered composite image, and where the densitometry analysis includes performing a densitometry determination by comparing information only within the second layer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A non-volatile computer readable storage medium having data stored therein representing software executable by a computer, the software including instructions to provide improved analysis of electrophoretic bands in a substrate, the storage medium comprising
instructions for receiving a first image of the substrate and a second image of the substrate, where the first image comprises a plurality of first electrophoretic bands captured by a first visualizing means, and the second image comprises a plurality of second electrophoretic bands captured by a second visualizing means, where the vertical position of each of the plurality of first electrophoretic bands is associated with a predefined molecular weight such that said first image represents a vertical weight scale; -
instructions for creating a layered composite image, where the first image defines a first layer of the layered composite image and the second image defines a second layer of the layered composite image; and instructions for analyzing the layered composite image, where the instructions for analyzing comprise a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions, where the first set of instructions include performing a molecular weight determination by comparing information between the first image and the second image as it exists in the layered composite image, and where the second set of instructions include performing a densitometry determination by comparing information only within the second layer. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for improving analysis of electrophoretic bands in a substrate, the system comprising
an imaging device adapted to capture a plurality of digital images including a first image of the substrate and a second image of the substrate, where the imaging device captures the first image by a first visualizing means and immediately thereafter automatically captures the second image by a second visualizing means, where the first image comprises a plurality of first electrophoretic bands and said second image comprises a plurality of second electrophoretic bands, where the vertical position of each of the plurality of first electrophoretic bands is associated with a predefined molecular weight such that the first image represents a vertical weight scale; -
a computer adapted for communicating with the imaging device, the computer having at least one processor to execute logic instructions associated with at least one computer software program and a memory for storing the logic instructions, where the memory stores the first image and the second image received from the imaging device, where at least one computer software program contains instructions to create a layered composite image from the first image and the second image, where the first image defines a first layer of the layered composite image and the second image defines a second layer of the layered composite image; and where the at least one computer software program contains instructions to analyze the layered composite image, where the instructions for analyzing comprise a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions, where the first set of instructions include performing a molecular weight determination by comparing information between the first image and the second image as it exists in the layered composite image, and where the second set of instructions include performing a densitometry determination by comparing information only within the second layer; and a user interface adapted to communicate at least one determination. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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