>Question:
>
>   Are there any programs (cheap/free) that readily do
>simple analysis of BioRad .pic files that are available for PCs?
>I know that NIH image is now available for PCs.  I was wondering if other
>programs are available that allow the use of measuring boxes to
>measure pixel intensities, that can do line by line analysis of
>linescans, contrast enhancement and labeling for printing, etc.
>


Surely Biorad's own system software does most of this?  For labelling
for printing etc I usually convert to tiff or bmp (Confocal Asistant,
free from Biorad, will do this) and use Paint Shop Pro (shareware
from Jasc. Inc.) which does very good text with anti-aliasing.  But
you don't seem to require any measurements beyond those which Biorad
themselves offer.  (The main things they _don't_ offer are counting
of objects, perimeter measurements and binary operations such as
erode and dilate).

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