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 <michel.zivy@moulon.inra.fr> and Olivier Langella <olivier.langella@moulon.inra.fr>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright CeCILL

SEE ALSO

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