Softwares and hardwares used for scanning gel electrophoresis banding pattern - (Dec/02/2005 )

Hi,

does anyone know of some popular software or hardwares that are used to scan banding patterns of gel electrophoresis into a computer?

do you know their websites?

Thanks!

ImageJ a good one for quantifying the bands if that is what u want.

For scanning you need a scanner and adobe photoshop

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