EXTRACTOR is an application that has been developed to assist Rotor-Gene PCR cycler users to extract raw data ".rex" files from Rotor-Gene Q-Rex Software Series
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EXTRACTOR is an artifact from our Main project, (currently, we are working on at Microbiological Laboratory Research and Services, Coimbatore in association with Microbiological Laboratory, Coimbatore) so we opted to make an application that automatically extracts the High Resolution Melt (HRM) raw data ('.rex' files) produced by Qiagen's Rotor-Gene Q PCR cyclers to the necessary '.xls' files from the Qiagen's Q-Rex Software and its solely for the analytical purpose only.
It's very useful for the laboratories, those who run plentiful PCR experiments and have past run files, and want to export those raw data into desired excel format (.xls files) for their internal analytics team to work with that data.
EXTRACTOR is a lightweight simple GUI-based application that extracts '.rex' files from the Qiagen's Rotor-Gene Q Software to the necessary '.xls' file. It's built for the users such as laboratory technicians and clinicians who handle and run PCR experiments especially in Qiagen's Rotor-Gene Q thermal cycler machine.
After the successful experiment ran in Rotor-Gene Q cycler, it produces the raw data and the users which can be only opened and analyzed via Qiagen's Q-Rex Software. If a specific run file (raw data) has to be exported into desired formats such as text(.txt), HTML Table(.html), XML(.xml), excel(.xls) given by the Qiagen Rotor-Gene Q-Rex Software. Here we automated the user role by our EXTRACTOR Software, by which you simply put the raw data file directory and desired directory to which the excel files are stored in your system, which saves time and not to burned out from this repititive task.
Manual Conversion
Time consuming and often introduce frustation and inconsistency, while converting bulks of raw data by manual process.
Automatic Conversion
Runs in a constant time and it handle countless of raw data automatically without any human intervence.
The following are the essential requirements for this software to run:
| Q-Rex Software | Rotor-Gene Q Software v2.3.5 (Build 1) |
| Platforms | Windows |
- Able to set user credentials.
- Selection of which type of data to extract from the raw data, i.e.,
- CT (Amplification Curve)
- MELT (derivative) &
- HRM (Normalized fluorescence)
- Supports desired output format as excel file.
It is easy to get started, you can download the executable zip file here
- Go to the unzipped application folder.
- Find the executable file and run it.
- After the successful installation, register with new user credentials
Note:
- An user can able to set only two new user credentials.
- Username is case-sensitive.
Select the type of data from the drop-down menu and enter the respected fields below and finally enter submit.
Let the Extractor do it.
To see the detailed demo of this application, click here
If you need to get in touch with the team, please contact through email address: [email protected]
The developers in this project are post graduate students in the Department of Computer Applications @ Bharathiar University
 Rajagopal S |
 Vignesh R |
 N.S.K |