Patent ID: 9552529
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G01N,G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for improving analysis of electrophoretic bands in a substrate, the method comprising receiving a first image of the substrate and a second image of the substrate, the first image comprising a plurality of first electrophoretic bands captured by a first visualizing means, and the second image comprising a plurality of second electrophoretic bands captured by a second visualizing means, where the vertical position of each of the plurality of first electrophoretic bands is associated with a predefined molecular weight such that the first image represents a vertical weight scale; creating a layered composite image where the first image defines a first layer of the layered composite image and the second image defines a second layer of said layered composite image; and analyzing the layered composite image by a molecular weight analysis and a densitometry analysis, where the molecular weight analysis includes performing a molecular weight determination by comparing information between the first image and the second image as it exists in the layered composite image, and where the densitometry analysis includes performing a densitometry determination by comparing information only within the second layer.