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try Zeiss LightLab ... uses PubSpectra data, as does the ZEN Smart Setup
http://microscopy.zeiss.com/microscopy/en_de/products/microscope-software/light-lab.html
On 11/20/2013 9:36 AM, Gustin, Emmanuel [JRDBE] wrote:
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> I just received an iPad as part of a Mobile Computing pilot project -- industry is rarely an early adopter of new IT technologies! -- and I was disappointed to discover that the SpectraViewer iPad app from LifeTechnologies no longer works: It hasn't been updated since February 2011, which probably explains it.
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> Sadly, this seems to be the state of several of their Apps, although they are still published on their website.
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> Subject: Re: Off-line spectraviewer
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> http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/9/
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> Zeiss, Chroma and others have "apps for that" - see iThingy store.
>
> From my comment on Carl Boswell's and my 2006 article's PubMed entry (readers may need to be logged in to My NCBI to see Comments):
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=mcnamara%20boswell
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=16969821
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> The PubSpectra dataset of over 2,000 fluorescence spectra is now
> (2013) downloadable in the Excel XLSX file inside a zip archive
> downloadable from
>
> http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/9/
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> The Boswell spectra graphing site described in this paper is defunct
> and has been replaced by Urs Utzinger and Carl Boswell's University
> of Arizona Spectra site
>
> http://www.spectra.arizona.edu/
>
> Urs has added additional spectra - especially 2-photon excitation
> spectra - to his web site.
>
> Several vendors have spectral graphing sites, including (but not
> limited to)
>
> http://www.semrock.com/searchlight-welcome.aspx
>
> http://www.chroma.com/spectra-viewer
>
> LifeTech/Invitrogen/Molecular Probes
> http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/life-science/cell-analysis/labeling-chemistry/fluorescence-spectraviewer.html
> instructions:
> http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/references/molecular-probes-the-handbook/technical-notes-and-product-highlights/using-the-fluorescence-spectraviewer.html
>
> Leica http://www.leica-microsystems.com/fluoscout/ (filter sets are
> from Chroma, so may be simpler to use Chroma's web site)
>
> BD Biosciences
> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/research/multicolor/spectrum_viewer/index.jsp
>
> Most of the confocal microscope companies have spectral viewers in
> their software. Zeiss ZEN acknowledges PubSpectra as the source of data.
>
> Re-using data: This 2006 paper includes a section,
>
> Data Is Not Copyrightable During the course of developing this data,
> one of us had an epiphany while reading in Lessig (18) about a U.S.
> Supreme Court decision: data is not subject to copyright (14). Text
> and commentary about Feist can be found on many legal web sites by
> doing a Google search. Indeed, the broad availability of the text of
> Supreme Court decisions is because they are not subject to
> copyright. The Feist decision reaffirmed the U.S. Copyright act of
> 1976 that "there can be no copyright in facts". The basis for the
> Feist decision can be found in the U.S. Constitution. 14. Feist
> Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co. 1991;499 U.S. 340. 18.
> Lessig L. The Future of Ideas. New York: Random House; 2001. p 368.
> For those interested in reference 17, Multi-Probe Microscopy, it is
> available for download at http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/2/
>
> Now in 2013, I want to reinforce in this PubMed Comment, that: 1.
> Data is not copyrightable (in the United States). 2. I encourage
> re-use of PubSpectra instead of you starting from scratch. 3. If
> anyone wants to "take over" adding data, please go ahead and do so.
> I would love for someone to find money and organizational skills to
> set up a village in India or China - or downtown Troy NY or Detroit
> MI - to hire people to unscan spectra graphs, and add it to "New
> PubSpectra".
>
>
> Enjoy,
>
> George
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>
>
> On 11/19/2013 7:48 AM, Anton Kamnev wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> Currently I'm dealing with a lot of requests from users of our
>> fluorescent microscopes to check compatibility of imaging systems with different dyes.
>> So far I was using online spectraviewers (e.g. chroma or life
>> technologies) they work quite well, but have a lot of limitations (not
>> all filters and fluorophores presented etc).
>>
>> Thus I'd like to ask if anyone came across or actually using an
>> off-line software solution for that? I guess I'm looking for simple
>> spectra viewer with big database of spectral characteristics of
>> different filters/fluorophores and ability to add and store my own
>> spectra (for custom filters etc).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for advices!
>>
>>
>>
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Single Cells Analyst
L.J.N. Cooper Lab
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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