nature16 July 1998
software reviews


The Graphical Interface
by Sharon Kardia

Prism

From GraphPad Software
This package was written to perform basic biostatistics, fit curves and create publication-quality scientific graphs in one package

Uniquely suited to biochemists, chemists, and perhaps chemical engineers who need graphics for kinetic experiments

UNIQUE GRAPHICS FEATURES: Prism uniquely offers data and graphical analysis of radiolabelled binding experiments. The automatic function plots are exclusively related to dose-response and enzyme kinetics functions.

STRENGTHS: Prism has good graphical layout options and customizing. It also has some nice graphic options associated with survival analysis and nonlinear regression.

WEAKNESSES: Prism has a limited graphical and analytical range.

LIKELY USERS: This package is oriented toward biochemists, chemists and chemical engineers.


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