GASP is a cross-platform software developed in C++ with wxWidgets as GUI framework, that allows the comparison of GC/MS runs, in order to determine differences in composition of samples. The program reads output files from Xcalibur, HP Chemstation and AMDIS, converts and align these files in order to make the comparisons. GASP has a direct link with R to generate statistical analysis of the alignments.

GASP is available free of charge for universities and non-profit organizations. To inquire about licensing please contact the Office of Research Contracts and Intellectual Property, McMaster University, 1200 Main St West, Health Sciences Building, Room 3N47, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, at 905.525.9140 ext. 26879, orcip@mcmaster.ca.

A complete help file is available to download also. If you want to learn more about GASP capabilities before using it, get the help file and check the program's features. If you want to cite GASP please include:

Nuin, PAS; Weretilnyk, EA; Summers, PS; Guevara, DR and Golding, GB. GASP v1.0. Program distributed by the authors. Department of Biology, McMaster University.

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