Table 1 Tools for the analysis of fluorescent reporter gene data (names in bold)

BaSylica web server [19] ¹

Kalman filtering

Background correction, computation of promoter activity, graphical user interface

Plate reader package [21, 52] ²

Spectral unmixing, Gaussian processes

Background correction, computation of reporter concentration and growth rate

PromAct package [23] ³

Smoothing splines

Computation of promoter activity

WellInverter web server [22] ⁴

Linear inversion

Background correction, computation of growth rate, promoter activity, and reporter/protein concentration, graphical user interface

WellReader package [46] ⁵

Smoothing splines

Background correction, computation of growth rate, promoter activity, and reporter/protein concentration, graphical user interface