• UltraScan 9.8, including the new Windows full release version is now available. Please visit the download page to get your copy.

• Beta 5 for Windows UltraScan 9.7 has been released. Please visit the download page to get your copy. The new file can be installed directly over a previous beta version.

• UltraScan 9.7 has been released. Please visit the download page to get your copy.

• The Public UltraScan LIMS Portal with supercomputer interface is now available for public use.
  You can find more information at http://uslims.uthscsa.edu

• UltraScan LIMS Portal now includes a supercomputer portal, and offers a complete website for managing an accessing UltraScan data over the web. Please visit the download page to get your copy.

• UltraScan Sources - UltraScan has moved to a GPL licensing scheme. Complete source code is available on the download page.

• UltraScan Reference Database is now online. Find publications that used UltraScan for data analysis, and share your own publications in this database resource.

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A Message from the Author

Dear Ultracentrifugation User!

Welcome to the UltraScan website. Here you can find all the links for downloading the UltraScan software, installation instructions, FAQs, documentation and manuals, as well as links to related information.

Description:

UltraScan represents a comprehensive data analysis software package for hydrodynamic data from analytical ultracentrifugation experiments. The software features an integrated data editing and analysis environment with a portable graphical user interface. A Beowulf module for Monte Carlo analysis is also built in, and a MySQL database backend is integrated for data management. Special care has been taken in the design of the software to guarantee an optimum in flexibility, user-friendliness, stability and convenience. The software is written in C++.

The software features popular sedimentation velocity and equilibrium analysis methods as well as simulation modules, utilities, and editing modules with support for velocity and equilibrium experiments, single and multi-channel centerpieces, absorbance and interference optics. All analysis methods generate ASCII formatted data suitable for import into third-party plotting programs, and contains a built-in postscript printer engine to generate publication - quality graphical representations of analysis data.

Credits and Acknowledgements:

Libraries:

• All GUI functions are based on the Qt C++/GUI library by Trolltech, Norway. Credits go to the Trolltech team for making their excellent library available at no cost for non-commercial use under Unix/X-Windows.
• Presentation Graphics extensions based on Qt are provided through the QWT library by Josef Wilgen, Deutsches Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
• Differentiation of minimization functions and finite element solutions is accomplished using Andreas Griewank's ADOL-C library for automatic differentiation.

The development of this software is supported by grants to the author from the National Science Foundation (Grants # 9724273 and # 9974819) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Resources Program Award to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Grant # 76200-550802) and the San Antonio Life Science Institute (Grant # 1000-1642)

References:

Contributors and references are listed here.