NAME

beads - 2D gel electrophoresis spot detection
 

SYNOPSIS

beads [ --inverse --steps -p parameter file]... -i INPUT -o OUTPUT
 

DESCRIPTION

detect and quantify spots in INPUT gel image file.
-i
path to the gel image input file
-o
path to the output file
-p, --param
path to the parameter file
--inverse
inverse pixel intensity in the source gel image, must be "true" or "false" ("true" by default)
--steps
save each image computed by beads at each step of the process into TIFF files. This option can be used to tune parameter file.
 

OUTPUT

beads produces several files format as output: xml, txt, jpg, tif and svg. To choose the output file format, just write the corresponding extension in the output filename OUTPUT
 

AUTHORS

beads was written by Michel Zivy <[email protected]> and Olivier Langella <[email protected]>.
 
Copyright CeCILL
 

SEE ALSO

The beads homepage :
 
http://pappso.inra.fr/bioinfo/beads/index.php