I believe you want to use a method called densitometry. This website explains how to do it in Photoshop and ImageJ:
http://lukemiller.org/journal/2007/08/quantifying-western-blots-without.html Of course, you have to make sure that all of your gels/films are scanned in a similar fashion to compare them to eachother. If your UV transilluminator has a camera, you may want to just take digital photos of your gels rather than print them out and scan the thermal paper. As always, make sure the experiments are as comparable as possible, eg use the same ethidium bromide concentration, don't switch ECL reagents, etc. It's always best to have a band to normalize to. Adam On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Joshua Silverstein < [email protected]> wrote: > I am also interested in knowing this so could you also send any replies to > me as well? Thank you so much > > Josh Silverstein > > On Feb 17, 2011 8:34 PM, "Pragnya Das" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want to quantitate the bands from a Western Blot (X-ray film) and a PCR > gel (Thermal paper). How can I do that. I have heard people using Photoshop > to qunatitate. Is it scientifically accepted. If so, how do I proceed after > scanning the films? I know a lot of labs use ImageJ software. > > Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated > > PD > _______________________________________________ > Methods mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods > _______________________________________________ > Methods mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods > _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
