From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 20 22:00:00 1994
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From: knag@kean.ucs.mun.ca
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Subject: Re: image analysis software
Date: 21 Mar 94 09:57:05 NST
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Your best bet for measuring the domain size/shapes would be to go for 
commercial softwares. JAVA (Jandel Scientific) does a good job of this. I 
have worked with it for the last four years and had no real problems other 
than some minor glitches. 
It's difficult to work with home brewn software since speed is a factor in 
image analysis. Even with a 486 PC it takes about 2 mins. to analyze a 
complete image (198,k byte), and another couple of mins. to process it. You 
may be able to get a earlier version of JAVA from somebody as they have 
updated there software to MOCHA. The earlier version (JAVA 1.3/1.4) does 
the same job.
The big bucks are going to go on the TARGA frame grabber board.(1K atleast 
for a 16 bit).
Kaushik Nag.
Biochemistry,
MUN.

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