IRootLab: a free and open-source MATLAB toolbox for vibrational biospectroscopy data analysis

Trevisan, Júlio
Angelov, Plamen P.
Scott, Andrew D.
Carmichael, Paul L.
Martin, Francis L.

¹School of Computing and Communications, Infolab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4WA, UK, ²Centre for Biophotonics, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK and ³Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre, Unilever Colworth Science Park, Bedfordshire MK44 1LQ, UK

Advance Access publication February 19, 2013

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Associate Editor: Jonathan Wren

Received December 3, 2012; revised February 8, 2013; accepted on February 13, 2013

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Bioinformatics 29(8):p 1095-1097, April 15, 2013. | DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt084

ABSTRACT

Summary:

IRootLab is a free and open-source MATLAB toolbox for vibrational biospectroscopy (VBS) data analysis. It offers an object-oriented programming class library, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and automatic MATLAB code generation. The class library contains a large number of methods, concepts and visualizations for VBS data analysis, some of which are introduced in the toolbox. The GUIs provide an interface to the class library, including a module to merge several spectral files into a dataset. Automatic code allows developers to quickly write VBS data analysis scripts and is a unique resource among tools for VBS. Documentation includes a manual, tutorials, Doxygen-generated reference and a demonstration showcase. IRootLab can handle some of the most popular file formats used in VBS.

License:

GNU-LGPL.

Availability:

Official website: http://irootlab.googlecode.com/.

Contact:

[email protected]

Supplementary information:

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.