When the gel processing is finished, a range of data files is produced which are then transferred to fpc . Apart from the usual bands files it is also possible to produce an image file for each clone, which is traced along the lanegrid on the gel and then normalised. This forms a thin image strip which can be lined up with others for analysis in other programs. The parameters that can be set at the bottom of the dialog determine the size of the image strips that will be produced for each lane. The images are written in the PGM format and the finished image files can be compressed to conserve diskspace.
Possible options are gzip, compress or none.
The programs gzip and compress have to be present in the path environment when amStep5 is run.