SILK SCIENTIFIC - Key Persons
In 1988, Silk Scientific Inc. was founded by Jeff Silk, in response to a need for extracting digital data from hard copy graphs. Our first product was the UN‑PLOT‑IT optical pen system, which used a plotter to automatically extract (x,y) coordinates from graphs. In 1992, the UN‑SCAN‑IT software replaced the UN‑PLOT‑IT system. The UN‑SCAN‑IT software uses a scanner to digitize graphs (instead of a plotter), and is much faster and easier to use than the UN‑PLOT‑IT system. In 1994, we introduced and added the UN‑SCAN‑IT gel software, which is designed to replace expensive and complex densitometer systems, by allowing electrophoresis gels to be quantified directly from a standard scanner.
Since the introduction of the UN‑SCAN‑IT and UN‑SCAN‑IT gel software, we have continually strived to improve and update the software by adding user-friendly features, thus making the software more powerful and intuitive. In addition, we have created customized versions of the software to meet the specific need of many customers. UN‑SCAN‑IT and UN‑SCAN‑IT gel are used in all 50 states and more than 80 countries throughout the world, and have been referenced in over 6,000 scientific publications. Hundreds of universities, large corporations, and small businesses use our software regularly in their research and image analysis endeavors.
After more than a 30 years of developing digitizing software, we continue our commitment to providing powerful, affordable, and easy to use graph digitizing software and gel analysis software to the scientific community. Thank you for your interest in our products and for your support.
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