Standard Operating Procedures Bank

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| Excellent website: The content of this site has been devised by UK Biomedical Scientists with the aim to share and re-use SOP's, programs and useful information that they and other people have spent a lifetime preparing. It might sound like plagiarism if you use this resource but we can assure you it's not! All the material available for download is free and given to this site with the full blessing of the authors. The download button will take you to this website http://www.biomedscience.org.uk/
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Blood Glucose Tracker

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| Excellent free software for tracking blood glucose and other parameters (blood pressure, diet, drugs, insulin and so on) in diabetics. Also visit the website at http://www.bgtracker.comfor the latest version and lots of information
- Author: Jim Berry
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win95/98/2x
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Creatine Clearance Calculator

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| Stylish simple creatinine clearance calculator for bench use. Calculates creatinine clearance given blood and urine creatinine, urine volume and duration of collection. Complete with Mannekin Pis.
- Authors: Aubrey Blumsohn and Ian Kennedy
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win95
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Smoke free

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| Diary and incentive program to assist in giving up smoking. May be of use in lipid/diabetic clinics for technologically inclined patients.
- Author: Michael Alft
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win95/98 (?Win3.1)
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AIDA v4.3 Diabetes simulator

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| Very interesting simulator for learning about insulin therapy and dietary adjustment in diabetes. Comes with lots of case scenarios to use as a starting point. Be sure to see their website as below.
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Codefinder

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| Program for locating ICD9-CM diagnostic and procedural codes (codes of disease entities and medical procedures)
- Author: JDM Software
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win9x/NT
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WPEDRAW

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| WPEDRAW is a program which produces pedigree diagrams and which is especially designed to be used to help with genetics research, especially linkage analysis using the LINKAGE and DOLINK packages. WPEDRAW is derived from the DOS program PEDRAW. Excellent.
- Author: Dave Curtis
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win 3.1 or Win95
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Biochem Tutorial

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| Biochem is an electronic biochemistry tutorial in Adobe Acrobat format. You will need Acrobat on your computer. Failrly straightforward text based presentation with pictures relating to DNA structure and replication, protein synthesis, energy metabolism.
- Author: Michael Lamb
- Price: Registration ($30) gets additional modules.
- Platform: Win 3.1 or Win95. Needs Adobe Acrobat reader
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IEM Lab

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| Extremely nice looking system in Microsoft Excel for diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism. Customized collections of major IEM with quick access of diagnostic criteria, clinical symptoms and expected laboratory findings. Interactive education program to allow the ranking of different diagnostic possibilities based on the user-inputs of laboratory and clinical findings. Internet link with the full medical informatic on IEM, i.e. the OMIM. (Excel 97 feature, not available in Excel 95/5.0).
- Author: CK Lai (email cc16cdb@hkstar.com)
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Excel 95/5.0 or Excel 97
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DAD (drug and toxin spectral library)

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| Excel Macro for Diode-array-detector (DAD) spectral library of drugs and other poisons:- (Excel 97 & Excel 95/5.0 versions available)Retrieval of calibrated retention time and UV spectra from a database with >1000 records of drugs and poisons (Varian Star system - 300 records, PMH; HP 1090M system - 600 records, Merck-Hitachi system - 120 records). Overlap of UV curves for visual matching. Automated library searching for imported spectral data from various instruments. See detailed readme file with application for details. **** This is the EXCEL95/5.0 version which. Contact author for EXCEL 97 (8.0) version and for further details regarding operation of this spreadsheet ****
- Author: CK Lai (email cc16cdb@hkstar.com)
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Excel 95/5.0
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Another code 39 Barcode Font

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| Yet another ttf Code 39 bar code font.
- Author:
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- Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
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Barcode97

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| Very nice freeware barcode generating program. Barcode formats EAN, UPC, CodABar, Code 2 of 5, Code 3 of 9. Easy to use. Barcodes may be copied to the Windows clipboard and pasted into other programs or saved to disk. Can generate series of barcodes.
- Author: Jan Laitenberger
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
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Code39 Bar code Font

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| TrueType Code 39 bar code font.
- Author: Karl Snyder
- Price:
- Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
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Code 39 Barcode Font

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| Another ttf Code 39 bar code font.
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- Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
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Downs Risk Calculator

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| Downs syndrome risk calculator for clinical chemistry laboratories. Demonstration version (503K)
- Author: Rick Jones, Leeds, UK
- Price: Contact r.g.jones@leeds.ac.uk
- Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
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Calcium Metabolism Simulator

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| Clinical Simulator of Calcium Metabolism (Version 1.50). various treatment option can be selected to demonstrate the effects of these option on health people. There are several cases which can be selected which demonstrated different diseases. Demonstration version (627K)
- Author: Rick Jones, Leeds, UK
- Price: Contact r.g.jones@leeds.ac.uk
- Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
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PedBase

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| Excellent database of various inborn errors of metabolism and other paediatric conditions.
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- Price: Freeware/Shareware versions
- Platform: DOS but runs well under Win3.1 and Win95
Note: The download button will take you to another site to download PedBase
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Renal

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| Renal Function Tests v1.01. Calculates several renal indices including creatinine clearance, clearance standardized for body surface area, estimated creatinine clearance (Cockroft and Gault), renal failure index and free water clearance
- Author: B.C. Fong and D.J. Doyle
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win3.1 and Win95
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Journals

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| Listing of several thousand biomedical journals and their "official" abbreviations. Useful when writing papers.
- Author: Edited by Aubrey Blumsohn
- Price:
- Platform: Text file
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Capsules

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| Nice little utilities designed to perform particular applications: 1) Differential diagnosis of ascites, 2) What method precision is needed given dose interval and half-life, 3) Differential diagnosis of Fe deficiency anaemia, 4) Chi Squared test, 5) Non-linear Interpolation
- Author: Dr M Holland, Wolverhampton, UK
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win 3.1 or Win 95
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Gepasi

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| Simulates the system kinetics of chemical and biochemical reactions. This program can simulate the steady state and time course behavior of reactions in several compartments of different volumes. Users supply information about the stoichiometric structure of the pathway, kinetics of each reaction, volumes of the compartments, and initial concentration of the chemical species. Gepasi will build implicit differential equations and solve them, and results can be plotted in 2D and 3D graphs directly from the program. (2.3MB)
- Author: Pedro Mendes
- Price: Free
- Platform: Win3.1 or Win95/98
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Hypertox

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| Very comprehensive information and practical approaches to problems in clinical toxicology - hypertext format. Designed for emergency ward management or teaching of clinical toxicology. Also has several interactive clinical cases. This files are self extracting compressed files. Load it into a temporary directory and run it. Then run install.exe from that directory and HyperTox installation will begin (2.6 Mb).
- Author: Andrew Dawson http://www.hypertox.com/
- Price: Unlimited version but will run 10 times only. Registration fee AU$82 for continued use.
- Platform: Win3.1 or Win95/98
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Conversion Buddy

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| Conversion Buddy Version 4.1.3. Converts from one unit of measurement to another. Over 1700 conversion factors included and you can add your own. Can paste results into your working Windows document (955K)
- Author: James E. Presley
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win95
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Texture Viewer 1.0

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| Free fast texture browser. Allows easy viewing of tiled texture or background bitmaps in .BMP, .jpg and .gif formats. Includes some sample textures (265K)
- Author: Aubrey Blumsohn
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win95
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Dalby Unit Conversion

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| Converts from one unit of measurement to another. Based on tables which are defined by the user covering units which are logically connected. For instance, Millimeter, Centimeter and Meter are units in the collected in the group Distance.
- Author: Soeren Dalby
- Price: Freeware
- Platform: Win95
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