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Why use CARA?



    

  • Powerful and intuitive user interface for displaying multidimensional data: with 1D slices, overview window, context menus, ...
       
    

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  • Direct access to tools like sequence mapping, strip matching, chemical shift matching ...
       
    

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  • Displays spectra from a variety of formats: E.g. Bruker, XEASY, NmrPipe, Sparky
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  • Reads and exchanges data with a variety of programs: E.g. AtnosCandid, Cyana, Mars, Xeasy
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  • All relevant data stored in one file (the repository). Manage different projects within one repository.
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  • Included in the repository: Libraries for residue topology and chemical shift statistics (ResidueType), and SpectrumTypes? which are all editable inside of CARA with a graphical interface. 
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  • A suite of Modules dedicated to specific tasks speed the assignment process (e.g. StripScope for strip-matching).
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  • Open Multiple Windows displaying different spectra. Assignments are continuously updated in all windows so that data from different spectra remain globally consistent.
       
    

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  • Fast and robust integration module with batch mode (100 spectra in ~30sec).
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  • A fast built-in scripting language (CALUA) with support for CARA objects allows a wide-range of custom applications to be developed like scripts to

      

    • generate a summary of assignments
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    • plot secondary shifts vs. sequence
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    • support communication with external programs
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    • define new attributes for any CARA object to support analysis of new types of information
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  • graphics functions to allow the development of custom applications within the CARA framework such as

      

    • for the display of contour plots from multiple spectra.
         
      

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    • building a user interface for expansions of CARA capability e.g. the automated assignment programs AutoLink & SideLink
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  • CARA is freely available and continues to be developed. It is written in C++ and according to professional software engineering standards.
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  • It runs natively on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Irix (please ask for other platforms). Since CARA is programmed in C++ it runs with maximum performance on all platforms (i.e. there is no performance penalty typically seen in applications based on scripting languages).
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