Chirascan 4.7

Chirascan is the instrument control and data analysis software developed by Applied Photophysics Ltd for the Chirascan family of circular dichroism (CD) spectrometers. It streamlines setup, acquisition, and interpretation of CD experiments used to characterize biomolecular structure, stability, and interactions in proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids.

Key capabilities:

• Unified instrument control: Operates Chirascan spectrometers and optional accessories (such as temperature controllers and autosamplers) through a single interface.
• Flexible experiment types: Supports wavelength scans, thermal melts, titrations, time courses, and multi-wavelength kinetics with method templates and queued runs.
• Real-time monitoring: Live spectral display, run status, and instrument diagnostics to help ensure data quality.
• Data processing tools: Baseline and buffer subtraction, smoothing and averaging, derivative spectra, and peak analysis.
• Built-in unit conversions: Converts raw millidegrees to ellipticity and mean residue ellipticity (MRE), with normalization for concentration and pathlength.
• Thermal analysis: Generates melt curves and determines key transition parameters (for example, Tm) with curve fitting options.
• Reporting and export: Creates publication-ready plots and exports data and metadata to common formats (such as CSV and image files) for downstream analysis and archiving.
• Workflow and data management: Method templates, batch processing, comprehensive metadata capture, and user accounts with role-based access.

Designed for academic, biotech, and biopharmaceutical labs, Chirascan software helps users obtain reproducible CD results quickly and confidently, from routine secondary structure measurements to more advanced stability and kinetics studies.

Chirascan is developed by Applied Photophysics Ltd. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2. The name of the program executable file is chirascan.exe.