Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced version 3.0 of its Skanit Software for the Multiskan FC microplate photometer, which can be used within a range of fields - particularly drug development.
The new version of Skanit provides the user with eight inbuilt languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Russian.
All the languages are available after software installation and can be changed with ease.
Version 3.0 incorporates the parallel-line analysis function in compliance with EU regulatory guidelines (European Pharmacopoeia) for testing the efficacy of pharmaceutical compounds.
As a statistical calculation method, parallel-line analysis is used to analyse the parallelism of standard curves of two different compounds and calculate the relative potency between them.
This calculation is used to analyse the efficacy of different compounds on biological or biochemical systems.
With ready-made sessions downloadable from the company website, the interface of the SkanIt Software facilitates simple assay setup for instrument control and data handling.
The software has been designed with a variety of inbuilt calculations, including blank subtraction, curve fits and basic statistics.
Measurement results can be analysed with Skanit or easily exported to Microsoft Excel.
