Method and device for preparing data for identifying analytes

Abstract

A method for preparing data for identifying analytes by coloring one or more analytes with markers in multiple coloring rounds, the markers in each case being specific for a certain set of analytes, detecting multiple markers using a camera, which for each coloring round generates at least one image that contains multiple pixels and includes colored signals and uncolored signals, a colored signal being a pixel containing color information of a marker, and an uncolored signal being a pixel containing color information that is not based on a marker, and storing the images of the particular coloring rounds for evaluating the color information, a data point in each case including one or more contiguous pixels in the images of the multiple coloring rounds, which are assigned to the same location in a sample, wherein each of the data points is assessed, based on the color information of at least the present image, for whether it may be a candidate data point, i.e., that it may contain colored signals and may thus encode an analyte, and when the color information is stored, the color information of the data points of the images which are reliably not a candidate data point, based on the assessment, is eliminated.

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