Fig. 1

PRECOG’s overall design. a The functionality that PRECOG provides is organized as a pipeline that follows four basic steps: step 1 - data import, step 2 - data processing, step 3 - data visualization, and step 4 - data export. b Screenshots from the PRECOG desktop application. PRECOG’s user interface is divided into two zones: actions and views. The action zone controls the program’s functions: i) upload data files, ii) setting parameters, iii) experiment selection, iv) graph controls, and v) save data. The views zone presents the data in different displays: vi) table view, vii) thumbnail view and viii) detailed curve view