-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Modan: a new comprehensive morphometric software package Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:23:08 -0500 From: Jikhan Jung <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Dear morphometricians, My name is Jikhan Jung, a graduate student in Dept. of Geoscience at University of Iowa. I've been working on a new morphometric software, named "Modan". Now I think it's ready for some real world tests. Modan provides features from data acquisition to analysis/visualization. You can digitize 2D or 3D landmark coordinates (no semilandmarks, yet), define wireframe and baseline using Modan, and all the data are stored in relational database via SQLite engine. You can easily edit all the data and Modan also provides ways to import/export data, including .tps format or Morphologika 2.5 data file. In analysis, you can use superimposition method of your choice, and the result is instantly shown in PCA result (CVA will be added, sooner or later). It's still far from what I've been planning, but at least now you can do basic morphometric analysis in Modan. So, if you're interested, please take a look and don't hesitate to contact me with bug reporting, feature suggestions, etc. I've given a poster presentation of Modan earlier this month in International Paleontological Congress 3, at London. Most of the people who showed interests asked if it supports semilandmark. Not yet. I'll be working on semilandmarks, soon. You can get Modan through project homepage at: http://code.google.com/p/modan <http://code.google.com/p/modan> Also, there are brief guides for installation and basic operation at Wiki section of the project homepage, available at http://code.google.com/p/modan/wiki/InstallGuide http://code.google.com/p/modan/wiki/QuickStartGuide Modan is an open-source project, so you can use it for free. Anyone can participate and help making it a better tool. <http://code.google.com/p/modan/wiki/QuickStartGuide> -- Best regards, Jikhan Jung
