13  Catalyzer products and licenses

This chapter outlines the functions and capabilities of the various Catalyzer products.

Catalyzer is available in several configurations: Catalyzer, Catalyzer Biomedical and Catalyzer Lite. The free version is Catalyzer Lite, and you can upgrade to the full version with a license key, available from Axiope.

Catalyzer

Catalyzer is the full featured version of the product for editing catalogs.

• Catalog size limited by memory

Catalyzer Biomedical

Catalyzer biomedical has all the features of Catalyzer, and adds support for a number of scientific file formats. This supports extracting information embedded in the file - including thumbnail images of the data, notes and settings. For example, the LSM importer extracts images from the LSM file format, and also extracts the Notes field with text comments about the file. The electrophysiology PClamp importer plots graphs of the time series data embedded in the PClamp file, and extracts the settings.

• All features of Catalyzer
• Microscopy and imaging: LSM, TIF, Deltavision, Leica, IPlabs, Metamporph
• Flow cytometry: FCS
• Electrophysiology: Axograph, PClamp, Spike II

Catalyzer Lite

Catalyzer Lite is our free trial version of Catalyzer. It includes all the features of Catalyzer, but limits the size of catalogs you can work with to:

• 100 Records
• Classes limited to 10 fields
• Importers can only be run 10 times
• Reads catalogs of any size