I’ve just released the version 0.2 of Picklist Editor. Now you have a table of all the proteins on the right of the gel. If you double-click on a cell, you can edit it (note this is not a recommended behaviour). After revalidating the table, your new spot will be included in the gel (and saved to your picklist if you like it). For me, this version is stable and fully functional :-) ...
This morning, I released Picklist Editor 0.1 with a text introduction … Hmmm … on my photos on Flickr you can see the hardware side of the picking process … (click on pictures to see details). On the photo on the left, you can see a gel on a low-fluorescent glass plate. This plate is in part in a tray that firmly holds it when the robot is doing its job. The holes everywhere result from the picking process but there are proteins everywhere and you can’t see them in visible light since they are labelled with fluorescent Cy dyes. You can see two white round stickers on each side of the gel: these are the picking references. ...
When you work with 2D gel electrophoresis in proteomics, you end dealing with “pick lists”. For this purpose, I wrote Picklist Editor, a tool to help visualize and modify this pick list. As usual, software and source code are available here. Feel free to use it and report any bug or your wish list :-) (and if you didn’t understand everything above because you are not in the proteomics field, just go to the page too because I also wrote a small introduction) ...