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Glotaran: A Java-Based Graphical User Interface for the R Package TIMP

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Description

Glotaran - A tool for Global and Target Analysis

Glotaran is a free software program developed for global and target analysis of time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy data.

A publication about Glotaran, with the title "Glotaran: a Java-based graphical user interface for the R-package TIMP" has been published in the Journal of Statistical Software, on July 1st 2012 and can be found here: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v49/i03/

Glotaran is open-source software and therefore free to download and free to use. If you use the software for any scientific publication we do however request that you cite our JSS publication (see below). Also, if you use Glotaran in any way - in research, industry or education - we are always happy to hear how!

Install and use Glotaran

Download the installer for your system from the GitHub Releases page. The release notes describe how to install it and how to set up R, TIMP and Rserve for analyses.

Get started with the Wiki and watch a Screencast.

Development

To build, run, and debug the application, see docs/DEVELOPMENT.md. Contributor guidelines are in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Packaging, installers, and the release process are described in RELEASING.md.

Releases 1.5.3 to 2.0 are described in docs/ROADMAP.md.

Deprecation notice

The 1.0.0 version of Glotaran was released over a decade ago, and the creators of Glotaran think it's time for a change.

For the past few years they have been working on a (spiritual) successor to Glotaran, re-written from the ground up in Python, called pyglotaran. Please check it out!

Latest releases

Latest stable release is version 1.7.0: Glotaran downloads and installs R, TIMP and Rserve itself and starts R when an analysis needs it, so you no longer install R or start Rserve yourself. The installers for Windows, Linux and macOS include Java. Download it from the GitHub Releases page.

main contains the latest release. The code and documentation of each release line live on their own branch:

Release linePlatformBranch
1.7.x (latest: 1.7.0)Apache NetBeans 31, Java 25maintenance/v1.7.x
1.6.x (latest: 1.6.1)Apache NetBeans 31, Java 25maintenance/v1.6.x
1.5.x (final: 1.5.3)NetBeans 8.0.2, Java 8maintenance/v1.5.x

Version 1.5.3 was delivered as an update to 1.5.1 installations through Tools | Plugins. Version 1.5.1 and earlier are available on glotaran.org. Version 1.5.2 was never officially released; snapshot builds labelled 1.5.2 are superseded by 1.5.3.

Planned releases

ReleaseBranchMain change
2.0.0mainpyglotaran replaces R and TIMP as the computational core

Scope, branch setup, and acceptance criteria for each release are in docs/ROADMAP.md.

Building release artifacts

See RELEASING.md for building the autoupdate site, the generic zip and the Windows, Linux and macOS installers.

License

GPL v2 or later

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Participating organisations

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Mentions

Testimonials

In conclusion, I find Glotaran to be a highly useful and capable addition to my analysis toolbox. The authors of the program are very helpful and communicative, and I have no doubt that Glotaran will continue to gain in features and ease-of-use. If, after reading this review, you have the slightest hunch that it could useful for you, download it and give it a go. I doubt you will be disappointed.
– Peter Dedecker, https://doi.org/10.1002/cem.2596

Contributors

Contact person

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Joris Snellenburg

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Joris Snellenburg
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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TIMP is an R package for fitting superposition models that implements the partitioned variable projection algorithm. The package has been extensively applied to modeling spectroscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) datasets. It serves as the backend for the Glotaran software.

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