El lun, 15-08-2005 a las 21:11, Stephan Gromer escribió: > Dear all, > > I am working at the biochemistry center at Heidelberg university. My > "daily bread" are spectrophotmetric analyses: Concentration > determinations, enzyme kinetics and spectra recording.... As some of > you may know, the software generally provided (well actually it is > most often sold for an unbelievable amount of money) is of extremely > poor quality (particularly the GUIs) and almost always "Windows only". > Furthermore, in a grown lab environment you have different models and > different brands, all with different (poor and non-intuitive) GUIs. As > I am preparing "the switch" of our lab from M$ to Linux I was looking > for a piece of software that runs under Linux, has a nice and usable > GUI and is more or less photometer brand independent. So far I haven't > found a program (possibly using the wrong keywords at Google or sf). > So I was thinking about a project to write such a software myself. > The idea: > - command line tools to communicate with the photometers in a > transparent fashion (that is the user does not have to know the > details about the specific photometer he/she is using but just tell > the PC once which one it is). > - A very basic (and BASIC-like) scripting language (read absorbance, > spectra, file IO, move to a cuvette etc.) > - and a GUI-frontend to the above.
Actually, that's a great idea. > > Unfortunately, I haven't done much coding for a couple of years (did C > and assembler on my beloved AMIGA back in the 90s....), so I need to > refresh my knowledge there (OOP seems to remains a mystery to me :| ). > Furthermore I have no experience in programming C under Linux (GUI and > the hardware related stuff (RS232 etc)) as I am still some sort of > newbie to Linux. > > Thus (finally) my questions: > - Is anyone aware of a (GPL) piece of software that (at least > partially) does some of my above outlined jobs As Robert said, Octave may be a great tool. > - Is anyone interested in such a project or may contribute useful > hints of any kind? Today I started my second subject about programming, so now I'm not _ready_ to help, but maybe in some months... ITOH, I think my father bought a new equipments for his lab, wich didn't arrived yet. Perhaps I would be able to contribute with some code for them... > > Thanks for listening! Thank you for posting it! A good multi-platform (I mean multiple brand's equpments) software working in GNU/Linux would be a _great_ advantage. Damian.- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Groucho Marx
