GC Image Users' Guide

New Features in Version 1.3

GC Image Version 1.3 has many new features. The most significant new feature is GC Project, an interface for managing and reporting on GCxGC batches of multiple runs and multiple mixtures.

GC Project for project management. See chapter Project Management and FAQ.
GC Project for reporting. See chapter Reports and FAQ.

There are major new components for handling GCxGC-MS data.

NIST MS Search for mass spectrum lookup. See chapter GCxGC-MS Data and FAQ.
NIST MS Search for blob identification. See chapter GCxGC-MS Data and FAQ.
MS ion range selection. See chapter GCxGC-MS Data and FAQ.
MS ion range chromatograms. See chapter GCxGC-MS Data and FAQ.

Configuration files and import processing specifications greatly speed interactive GCxGC data processing.

Configuration files. See chapter Processing Configurations and FAQ.
Import processing. See chapter Processing Configurations and FAQ.

Point-wise arithmetic image operations are available in Version 1.3.

Arithmetic operations. See chapter Image Processing Filters and FAQ.

Several visualization and analysis tools are new or improved.

Visualize image data in text view. See chapter Visualizing Image Data and FAQ.
Find and select blobs by metadata. See chapter Analysis and FAQ.
Select blobs from blob table. See chapter Analysis and FAQ.
Visualize blob statistics. See chapter Analysis and FAQ.
Use blob statistics for image analysis. See chapter Analysis and FAQ.
Delete blobs in Image Viewer. See chapter Analysis and FAQ.
Draw blobs in Image Viewer. See chapter Analysis and FAQ.
Additional blob statistics. See the white paper Blob Metadata and Statistics in GC Image. New statistics include interpolated peaks for each separation dimension and percent response of each blob relative to all blobs.

Version 1.3 has new input and output features.

Print image. See chapter Image Input and Output and FAQ.
Include axes on exported images. See chapter Image Input and Output and FAQ.
Export image in PNG format. See chapter Image Input and Output and FAQ.

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