Download and Installation

System requirements:

- IBM PC or compatible
- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or NT 4.0. For Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or greater must be installed
- Installed “Ellipse” program (www.ellipse.sk)
- 15 MB of free hard disk space

In order to receive a self-extracting zip-archive of the Plug-Ins, please read “Terms and conditions for using “Gold” plug-ins” (see below), and if you agree with them fill the following form and send it via e-mail to gold@biomed.cas.cz (the zip-file will be e-mailed to you in return):

Subject: Plug-In request
1. Name:
2. Institute:
3. Address:
4. Phone:
5. E-mail:
6. WWW (if exists):
I hereby confirm, that I have read and agree to the terms and conditions of using “Gold” plug-ins.

Terms and conditions for using “Gold” plug-ins:

1) You may use “Gold” plug-ins (further “the Product”) free of charge for non-commercial purposes only. However, you should always refer to the source of the Product and the authors by indicating the Internet address of these web-pages (http://nucleus.img.cas.cz/gold/) and by citing the following papers in all your publications in which you have used the Product:

Philimonenko A. A., Janacek J., and Hozak P. (2000) Statistical Evaluation of Colocalization Patterns in Immunogold Labelling Experiments. J. Struct. Biol., Vol. 132, pp. 201-210

and

Schofer C., Janacek J., Weipoltshammer K., Pourani J., and Hozak P. (2004) Mapping of cellular compartments based on ultrastructural immunogold labeling. J. Struct. Biol., Vol. 147, pp. 128-135

2) You may not redistribute, encumber, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or otherwise transfer rights to the Product

3) You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Product (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction)

4) Disclaimer of warranty. The product is provided free of charge, and, therefore, on an "as it is" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties that it is free of defects, fit for a particular purpose or non-infringing. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an essential part of this agreement. No use of the product is authorized hereunder except under this disclaimer.


Plug-ins installation:

Unzip the “Goldplugins.zip” file into a new directory. Then copy all files from this directory into the directory “Plugins” (e.g. into “C:\Program Files\Ellipse\Plugins” in case during installation you have chosen to install the “Ellipse” program into the Program Files). Then run the “Ellipse” program and open image(s) of interest. You will find the plug-ins in the main menu of the program by going to Plug-in>Ellipse>Gold