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Dear Giselle<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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, <I>plus</I> the option of outputting to a range of standard file formats.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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Kind regards<BR>
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Arthur<BR>
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<B>Date: </B>Wed, 7 May 2003 18:29:23 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
<B>To: </B>RASMB@rasmb-email.bbri.org<BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[RASMB] presentation graphics<BR>
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Hello RASMB group,<BR>
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Thanks very much to Holger Strauss, Helmut Colfen and John Correia for<BR>
your advice on repairing the rib on our broken cell-housings. I am going<BR>
to try the two-part epoxy glue method once I am able to find a replacement<BR>
rib. (I'm in touch with a machine shop that should be able to make them.)<BR>
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I do have a new question for the group today. I have been using WinNonlin<BR>
to analyze my sedimentation equilibrium data for some time. I save a<BR>
screen capture of the graphs in my notebook along with the text files of<BR>
the x-y data. When it comes to making a few simple graphs it's easy<BR>
enough to import this data into Excel or Kaliedagraph, but now I'm to the<BR>
point where I have lots of scans to handle.<BR>
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Has anyone written a data converter that reformats the x-y output from<BR>
NonLin into an easily graphable format that can be used for preparation of<BR>
presentation-quality graphics? I would very much appreciate your<BR>
suggestions.<BR>
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Thanks very much!<BR>
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-Giselle Knudsen<BR>
graduate student, UCSF<BR>
Chemistry and Chemical Biology group<BR>
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