An approach to the collection and manipulation of time-based data using the IBM PC and BASICA |
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Authors: | Roome, Peter W., Jr. Brewer, Colleen Peterson, Julian A. |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center Dallas, TX 75235, USA |
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Abstract: | With the advent of increasingly integrated, powerful and inexpensivedigital electronics, relatively powerful computers have becomeavailable to the general public. Along with this technologicalboom there has been a concomitant increase in the availabilityof over-the-counter software packages which can be used by researchscientists for program development. In the past, the developmentof computer programs for the collection of large amounts oftime-based data was expensive and time consuming; however, theintroduction of the current generation of 16-bit microcomputersand associated hardware and software packages has enabled investigatorswith only a rudimentary knowledge of computers and interfacingto begin to design programs. The schemes and algorithms, developedusing BASICA on an IBM-Personal Computer, which are describedin this article can serve other investigators as models forthe assembly of their own programs for the collection, manipulationand plotting of time-based data. The incorporation of inexpensivecomputer graphics hardware and software, which provided a simplesolution to the problem of analysis and presentation of largeamounts of data, will also be discussed. Received on December 19, 1984; accepted on December 22, 1984 |
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