Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!murdu!morrow@murdu.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
From: morrow@murdu.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Christopher Morrow)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
Subject: REA patterns
Message-ID: <1866@murdu.oz>
Date: 29 May 90 11:23:11 GMT
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Organization: Vet School, University of Melbourne
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I have been very interested in photography of REA patterns of bacteria
and further processing by computers.  Recently I have looked at
improving photograph resolution and manipulating constrast (NAR
17:6751) and I have tried the NSCA gelreader program.

The gel reader program is fantastic taking a digitized picture and
identifying lanes and bands and generating rf values.  It is designed
for DNA but could easily be adapted for protein work.  It handles
standards.  It runs on a Mac with a colour card (ours is a Mac II)
and it is recommended to use a HP Scan jet plus for digitizing as the
apple scanner doesnot have the required grey scale.

What I was thinking was could a scanner be modified to scan gels?
Either by putting a UV source above the gel on the scan bed or
altering the laser/dye/glass or just using it as is.
I wanted to try to stop buying film and was thinking of a video camera
but this idea appeals to me.  Perhaps HP could design a water proof
scanner.

Chris Morrow