Delineating gel images

Question: 

How important is the delineation of a gel by the green rectangle?

Answer: 

It does not matter how you delineate the green rectangle while defining the gel contours. However, further normalization is easier when you try to define the green rectangle consistently: the corresponding bands will more precisely occur at the same position. A good trick is to look for a consistent band at the top of the lanes, and align the top of the rectangle to that band. The same for the bottom.

Package(s): 
BIONUMERICS
Applicable for: 
Version 1.0 - 8.1