A major update to PeakTrace has been released – PeakTrace 6. This version has a large number of improvements and new features and it is highly recommended that all users update to this version (it is a free upgrade). Both the Windows (Auto PeakTrace) and Linux versions (PeakTrace) are now available from the Nucleics Downloads page. You will need to update your system as described in the How to upgrade to Auto PeakTrace 6.
The full list of changes for PeakTrace 6 include.
- New Feature. Clean baseline.
- New Feature. Extra normalization.
- New Feature. QualTrace III integration.
- New Feature. Trace reports.
- Parallel installation of Auto PeakTrace 6 with Auto PeakTrace 5.
- Improved handling of capillaries that run slower than expected.
- Improved signal to noise determination.
- Improved trimming of noise level data from traces.
- Improved detection of failed traces.
- Improved basecalling of traces without KB quality scores.
- Improved basecalling of short traces.
- Improved q average trim.
- Changed default settings for the command line version of PeakTrace. The default settings are now:
- trace file: .ab1
- .seq file: abi
- fuse trace: 1
- Additional error messages to help identify the cause of problems.
- New licensing system requiring a license update.
- Updated visual design and help manual.
- Bug fixes.