Bio-Rad Image Lab™ Software - Manual (Page 138)

6 | Analyzing Images
138 | ChemiDoc MP Imaging System with Image Lab Software
Copying Lanes
You can copy the lanes from one image into any other image. This tool is useful if
you want to create a multichannel image from unlinked images, and you want to
identify and match the lanes in your channels. The entire frame and all the lanes are
copied. Individual lanes cannot be copied.
To copy lanes between channels
1. Open the Lane and Bands tool.
2. Select the channel that contains the lanes you want to copy.
3. From the Edit menu, select Copy.
The message Copying All Lanes appears.
4. Select the channel that you want to copy the lanes into.
5. From the Edit menu, select Paste.
A channel can contain only one lane frame at a time. Therefore, if you paste
lanes into a channel that already contains a lane frame, you are prompted to
confirm the deletion of the existing lanes. If you click Yes, the existing lanes are
deleted and replaced with the copied lanes.
Note: If you copy lanes into a channel of a linked multichannel image, the
lanes are copied into all channels of the image, including the Multichannel
channel.
After the lanes are copied into the channel, you can manipulate individual lanes
using the lane tools so that they are correctly positioned.
Detecting Bands
Note: Bands are detected for individual images. For multichannel images, you
must detect the bands for each channel, one at a time. This applies whether the
multichannel image is linked or unlinked. Band detection on the Multichannel
channel is disabled. The multichannel view is a composite of the other
channels. Detecting bands in this view is not particularly useful because
quantifying overlapping bands will result in combined values from multiple
channels.