The Spectrum Perspective

The Spectrum Perspective is an arrangement of spectrum related views for giving the user the possibilty to visualize spectrum data in an apropriate way.It is mainly formed by four different views and the regarding methods/actions. These are:
  1. The Spectrum Chart views, which are using the JFreeChart package for the visualisation of spectral information, either peak or continuous data, within the Spectrum Perspective of Bioclipse. It is possible to stepless zoom in and out the spectrum as well as setting some displaying properties via a context menu provided by JFreeChart.

  2. The Metadata view is displaying the with the spectrum stored metadata in an editable manner.

  3. The Peak Table view is showing existing peaks in an editable peak table and gives the user the possibility to add, delete and edit spectrum peaks. The bc_spectrum plug-in is capable of importing and exporting CML and jcamp-dx spectrum files, whereas internally all spectrum data is stored and passed around as CML Java objects. If just continuous data is on-hand for a spectrum a peak picking action is available extracting the peaks from that data.