Today’s research-driven environment relies on software and technology to support experimentation.  It’s a rapidly changing environment, where the technology needs to be adapted quickly and correctly to get the best results. The members of our applied research practice are accustomed to making the technology meet the demands of science.  They excel at working with unusual, complex, and cross-platform systems.

Our Expertise

• Visualization and analysis algorithms
• Hardware prototyping with computer numerical control (CNC)
• ITT VIS IDL
• Fasta and DNA sequencing formats
• Custom software for hardware control
• Embedded systems development
• Cross-platform development

For more about this area, our team recommends

• Slither: Combining the Power of  IDL and Python - Update (IDL User Group Meeting, April 2009)
• Slither: Combining the Power of  IDL and Python (IDL User Group Meeting, October 2008)

Sample Projects

• Created a library for using consumer / pro-sumer digital cameras as computer controlled imaging devices. Features a simple, easy to use, object oriented interface, which enables the scientists to use cameras from different manufacturers without changes to the application software.

• Developed visualization and analysis software for the use of Spectral Imaging to analyze skin parameters in face lift procedures. Features of the software include automatic registration of images taken at different times using different wavelengths; an image and results database browser; parallel processing for data analysis (scalable to hundreds of CPU cores); and automatic dependency handling so that when data or algorithms change, only the minimum necessary reprocessing is done.

• Created a web application that allows users to align DNA sequencing trace files with a template fasta file (a known set of sequences).  The results display the statistics for each well in the plate and how it aligned to the template set, including a graphical view of the alignment (in DNA or protein format).  The statistics for each hit can be displayed based on the DNA or protein format.

• Designed a database schema and web application that blasts an input sequence against a collection of in-house purchased proteins.  The user can search the database using an input sequence (DNA or protein) or by many different protein characteristics.  Links to public domain sites and blast results for each record are included in the result set.  The output can be in HTML, fasta, or in a downloadable format.

• Designed and developed Slither: the IDL to Python Bridge.  This standalone application enables users to call Python code from within their IDL code, providing IDL users with access to the publicly-available Python libraries.