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

Bioinformatics. 2013 Apr 15;29(8):1095-7. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt084. Epub 2013 Feb 19.

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/.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Software*
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared / methods*
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman / methods*
  • User-Computer Interface