Citizen Science/Open Spectrophotometer Project/Documentation
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| + | ** [http://hackberry.trinity.edu/IJC/instructions/jcamp.html JCAMP format] | ||
| + | ** [http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm/software/jcmpsum.html JCAMP DX format] | ||
| + | ** [http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm/spectra/specindex.html JCAMP display applet] | ||
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** [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1535-5535(04)00168-6 SpectroML Standard (2004)] | ** [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1535-5535(04)00168-6 SpectroML Standard (2004)] | ||
Revision as of 11:59, 3 December 2008
Contents |
Spectrophotometer design
- Technology
- LED-based
- CCD detector
- diffraction grating
- Calibration
- Computer interface
Spectrometric data format
- JCAMP format:
- XML/RDF based
- Data description:
- Spectral data (sampled)
- time log
- GPS log
- tags
Targeted biological samples
For our project, we aim to target one of the most accessible human bodily fluids:
- Sweat
- Still difficult to use as it is difficult to collect a quantity large enough
- Reliable collection a problem too
- Sperm
- very socially awkward - many cultural, religious issues associated
- Breast Milk
- Same social issues as above, to a lesser extent maybe
- Limited 'Market': lactating women only
- Saliva
- Few practical collection problems
- 23andME
- Saliva Analysis is used to detect the level of hormones or drugs. But there is little a spectrophotometer can do to help (no correlation between a health issue and opacity, color or any such criterion).
- Blood
- Also Practical, although collection a bit harder
- Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project?
- Spectrophotometry may be of limited use, but of use nonetheless.
- To know more about Blood Analysis
- Urine
- Also practical
- Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project?
- This is the bodily fluid for which spectrophotometry may be of most use.
- To know more about Urine Analysis
NB: There are also some internal bodily fluids (but they are not practical to use), including
- cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and the spinal cord
- synovial fluid surrounding bone joints
- intracellular fluid is the fluid inside cells
- aqueous humour and vitreous humour the fluids in the eyeball.
A full (and very long) list of the human bodily fluids can be found on Wikipedia
Open Dataset Repository design
- Web2.0 Service-like
- Open API
- Papers:
Data visualisation
- Processing-based
Data Analysis
- Data Analysis will play an important role in the second part of the project , that is the construction of the Web 2.0 Service
- More on our apporach to data analysis can be found on Data Analysis
