[RASMB] presentation graphics

[Arthur Rowe]

Dear Giselle

Yes, one does need to have versatile, presentation quality graphics software
available to display your equilibrium data. And neither of the two
possibilities you mention (Excel, Kaleidagraph) really rates in that area.

I personally use pro Fit on my Apple G4 for this purpose - it will open
files from the XL-A's PC directly (over our LAN if I am feeling lazy), and
only a trivial bit of editing is needed (incl. re-formatting column 1). pro
Fit (Quantum Soft, Zürich) then gives you the ability to display your data
as you want it, multiple graphs/axes/colours and all that, plus the option
of outputting to a range of standard file formats.

However, you do need a Mac and pro Fit. A good Windows alternative is Sigma
Plot. Clunky with user-generated functions it may be, but it does provide
quality display graphics for you.

Kind regards

Arthur


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From: Giselle Knudsen <knudsen at cgl.ucsf.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
To: RASMB at rasmb-email.bbri.org
Subject: [RASMB] presentation graphics


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Hello RASMB group,

Thanks very much to Holger Strauss, Helmut Colfen and John Correia for
your advice on repairing the rib on our broken cell-housings.  I am going
to try the two-part epoxy glue method once I am able to find a replacement
rib.  (I'm in touch with a machine shop that should be able to make them.)

I do have a new question for the group today.  I have been using WinNonlin
to analyze my sedimentation equilibrium data for some time.  I save a
screen capture of the graphs in my notebook along with the text files of
the x-y data.  When it comes to making a few simple graphs it's easy
enough to import this data into Excel or Kaliedagraph, but now I'm to the
point where I have lots of scans to handle.

Has anyone written a data converter that reformats the x-y output from
NonLin into an easily graphable format that can be used for preparation of
presentation-quality graphics?  I would very much appreciate your
suggestions.

Thanks very much!

-Giselle Knudsen
graduate student, UCSF
Chemistry and Chemical Biology group
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