New High-Performance Image Analysis Software from Amersham Biosciences
October 01, 2003 – Amersham Biosciences, the life sciences business of Amersham (LSE: NYSE: OSE: AHM), announces the launch of ImageQuantTM TL, high-performance, easy-to-use software for the analysis of images from a wide range of biological samples.
ImageQuant TL is highly versatile specialized software that can analyse 1D gels, simple 2D gels, dot blot, slot blot, microplate, TLC, macroarray and plaque assays. The flexible range of tools that ImageQuant TL offers enables simple analyses that can be performed with just a few mouse clicks and more extensive analyses with user definable parameters.
ImageQuant TL can be used either as a standalone package or with Amersham Biosciences’ imagers such as the flexible Typhoon™ scanner where images generated from different sample types are automatically analyzed by ImageQuant TL. With ImageQuant TL, data results from single or multi-channel images is dynamically presented in a measurements table that is easily and automatically updated when adjustments to the analyses are made.
Developed in exclusive association between Amersham Biosciences and Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd, ImageQuant TL helps meet the demanding needs of users of variable mode imagers and camera systems and has been designed to handle multicolour images from diverse applications with modern algorithms, with a high degree of automation, while also allowing the user to define specific tools for data analysis. ImageQuant TL is the newest generation of the ImageQuant software used by most life science researchers throughout the world since 1988.
Targeted at multi-user molecular biologists, neuroscientists and cell biology research laboratory technicians ImageQuant TL is easy to install and use, making tasks such as colony counting less labour intensive for laboratories to perform.
Andy Bertera, vice president genomics product management at Amersham Biosciences commented, “ImageQuant TL is a fast and easy way to turn images from many experiments into qualitative and quantitative results. The versatility and the degree of automation of ImageQuant TL to eliminate user-to-user variation will speed up the analysis process and improve reproducibility.”
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ImageQuant TL is available for download from Amersham Biosciences at www.imsupport.com/iqtldownload
Amersham Biosciences, the life sciences business of Amersham plc (LSE: NYSE: OSE: AHM), is a world leader in developing and providing integrated systems and solutions for disease research, drug development and manufacture. Our systems are used to uncover the function of genes and proteins, for the discovery and development of drugs and for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals. The customers for Amersham Biosciences’ products and technology are pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and research and academic institutions, principally in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
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Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd
Established in 1989, Nonlinear Dynamics is a leading worldwide provider of bioinformatics solutions to the life science industry. The Company’s innovative product portfolio comprises high-quality analysis and data mining tools for 1D and 2D electrophoresis gels and microarrays, the core technologies of genomics and proteomics. Nonlinear sells and supports its products through its UK headquarters, its US subsidiary, and its global network of partners and OEM resellers.
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