pew²

Pew² is a GUI for importing and processing line-by-line, spot-wise and ablation-time-aligned LA-ICP-MS data using the python library pewlib.

Supported formats

Agilent

• Drag-and-drop import of batches (.b directories), with one sample per line
• Import of both binary and csv data
• Syncing with Iolite laser logs (one sample per image pattern)

Thermo iCap

• CSV exports
• LDR (laser-data-reduction) exports

Perkin Elemer

• ELAN .xl directories

Nu Intruments

• Vitesse images

CSV Images and Lines

• Importer for generic one-file-per-csv style data

ImzML

• Import wizard for data in the imzML format
• Mass selection and exploration

Iolite Laser Logs

• Wizard to sync laser and ICP data
• Both ActiveView2 and Chromium3 style logs

Installation

Windows executables are available for each release.

To install via pip first clone the repository then install as a local package.

git clone https://github.com/djdt/pewpew
cd pewpew
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

The program can then be run from the command line.

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Documentation

Documentation is available at https://pew2.readthedocs.io

Publications

• Pew2: Open-Source Imaging Software for Laser Ablation−Inductively Coupled Plasma−Mass Spectrometry