January 29, 2004

LaTeX and the lab notebook

The TeX Catalogue OnLine, CTAN Edition. This appears to be a promising LaTeX class file. If you're a grad student actively doing research, take a gander at learning LaTeX if you haven't already done so. It will do wonders for you in the long run -- i.e. when writing your dissertation. And if you just started out in the lab, you're just in luck, try out this labbook class. It has some interesting features in attempting to keep a lab notebook organized, but alas, there are many pitfalls in using solely LaTeX (yes, I admit, LaTeX is not an end-all, be-all) -- for example, what to do with all those flow cytometry data files? Or your Excel or FlowJo data files? Or your DNA sequence files or chromatograms? You get the picture.

Posted by johnvu at January 29, 2004 11:11 PM
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Regarding flow cytometry data files, I suppose one could use Weasel for data analysis. Its written in Java, and since it's just a jar, it should run on Linux as well - it can export in PICT (only) but how can that be impossible to convert :-)

Only draw back is, that its rather pricey

Posted by: Ulrik Stervbo on June 13, 2004 05:19 AM
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