broadhurstdavid/QC-MXP: QC:MXP version 3.0

QC:MXP version 3.0 includes significant expanded functionality from version 2 (see UPDATES below).

The binary installation files are listed below. Choose the one that matches your operating system (Apple Intel or Apple Silicon, Windows 10, Windows 11, or Matlab App). Download (unzip if Apple) and run. The helper app will guide you through installation. Once installed, if you have trouble finding the app on your computer just use the search bar.

Please, please, please! read the Github quick start tutorial before using.

VERY IMPORTANT FOR APPLE USERS:

Due to Apple gatekeeping the ability to download from a non approved source you have to use a workaround to open the installer app. You do this at your own risk (trusting my software is not malware). So for Silicon users download the QCMXPInstaller_macOSAppleSilicon_v03.zip file to your ~/Downloads folder. Unzip the file. Open a terminal app (type 'terminal' in the search bar and open). enter: xattr -c ~/Downloads/QCMXPInstaller_macOSAppleSilicon_v03.app . Go back to the Downloads folder and now double-click (open) the QCMXPInstaller_macOSAppleSilicon_v03.app. Everything should now install smoothly. Same process for the QCMXPInstaller_macOSi64_v03.zip file (i.e.xattr -c ~/Downloads/QCMXPInstaller_macOSi64_v03.app). In future releases I will endeavor to make these steps unnecessary.

ALSO IMPORTANT FOR APPLE USERS:

Installing this version as an update to a previous version, you must delete the QCMXP folder (within the Applications folder) before installation. This OSX installer will not overwrite folders with the same name (a Matlab quirk).

VERY IMPORTANT MICROSOFT USERS:

As with Apple, Microsoft is keen to point out that I am not a recognised software developer and not to trust my software. You will have to explicitly approve the download and installation of this application. Again, you do this at your own risk (trusting my software is not malware).

If you have any problems or questions please get in touch:

UPDATES

• The Within-Batch Correction modes have been expanded to include constrained spline correction ("Spline-C2", Spline-C4" or "Spline-C6"). These can be useful if batches do not start and end with QCs - where there is a danger of some pretty wild non-linear extrapolation if not heavily constrained.
• The major update for version 3 is the ability to select subsets of batches to explore in isolation after correction. Click the "Batch Select" tab and select those batches you wish to include (or exclude) from analysis and then "Send" the resulting list to the visualisation windows. This feature was requested for investigating studies with a large number of batches. To help guide the inclusion/exclusion process a new pop-out 'Batch Summary Statistics' window has also been implemented.