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Biochemical and Structural Characterization of the Carbohydrate Transport Substrate-binding-protein SP0092
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Advanced analysis of single-molecule spectroscopic data
Joshua L Botha1, Bertus van Heerden2, Tjaart P J Krüger2
1Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
Abstract:
We present Full SMS, a multipurpose graphical user interface (GUI)-based software package for analyzing single-molecule spectroscopy (SMS) data. SMS typically delivers multiparameter data-such as fluorescence brightness, lifetime, and spectra-of molecular- or nanometer-scale particles such as single dye molecules, quantum dots, or fluorescently labeled biological macromolecules. Full SMS allows an unbiased statistical analysis of fluorescence brightness through level resolution and clustering, analysis of fluorescence lifetimes through decay fitting, as well as the calculation of second-order correlation functions and the display of fluorescence spectra and raster-scan images. Additional features include extensive data filtering options, a custom HDF5-based file format, and flexible data export options. The software is open source and written in Python but GUI based so it may be used without any programming knowledge. A multiprocess architecture was employed for computational efficiency. The software is also designed to be easily extendable to include additional import data types and analysis capabilities.
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