Herramienta de visualización y procesamiento de señales electroforéticas desarrollada usando software libre

Abstract

In this work, we developed a new software tool for signal processing and analysis of capillary electrophoresis (CE) data. The proposed tool has been developed under the paradigm of free software and open source, using wxWidget as the visualization tool, providing thus a user-friendly interface and easy to use tool that fully meets informatics requirements of researchers with the need of performing CE data analysis. To achieve that, the proposed tool has several options for signal processing and visualization, integrated into various tabs, pull down option menus, a fast access toolbar, and selectable graphical areas where the user can show the raw data, and the processed data. Furthermore, the proposed tool has an on-line user manual, made using multimedia techniques, describing its operation in details. The developed tool is based on structured programming facilitating thus software maintenance as well as the integration of third-party applications that may further improve or expand the potential of the present tool. In order to validate the proposed tool, the algorithms were also implemented using licensed software, specifically MatLab®, and a comparative study of the performance of both developments is also presented. Finally, the application runs on window based or Linux/Unix platforms with reduced computer resources.