DNA FRAGMENT SIZE DETERMINATION ON AGAROSE-GEL BY USING THE APPLICATION GEL

We have developed an application to calculate double-stranded DNA frag ment size on an agarose gel. This application is named GEL and is impl emented for two different platform: MS-DOS and Macintosh. Both impleme ntations allow entry of the relative migration distance of a DNA fragm ent of an agarose gel containing up to 20 different wells and up to 20 bands per well. Up to three different standards can be present on the gel, and the application will use the closest standard to calculate t he fragment size. Both applications have a familiar user interface: th e Turbo Vision interface for the MS-DOS implementation and the familia r Macintosh interface for the Macintosh implementation. In addition, t he MS-DOS implementation has an extensive context on-line help.