Description

Origin 8 includes a suite of features that cater to the needs of scientists and engineers alike. Multi-sheet workbooks, publication-quality graphics, and standardized analysis tools provide a tightly integrated workspace for you to import data, create and annotate graphs, explore and analyze data, and publish your work.

To ensure that Origin meets your data analysis requirements, intuitive tools for advanced statistics, regression, nonlinear curve fitting, signal processing, image processing and peak analysis are built-in. Since any analysis operation can be set to automatically recalculate, you can reuse your projects as templates for future work, thereby simplifying your daily routine.

Multi-sheet Workbooks for Scientists and Engineers
Origin’s new multi-sheet workbooks with rich-text formatting let you consolidate and manage imported data, images, database queries, related analysis results and graphs.
Graphs, images, and notes can be embedded in worksheet cells, facilitating better project organization, documentation and report generation.
Quickly review the profile of each dataset by glancing at its sparkline1 at the top of each worksheet column.
Sheets can be dragged and dropped to easily reorganize the active workbook, or to place into another workbook.
Create column formulas that operate on any dataset within the Origin project using built-in mathematical and statistical functions or LabTalk statements that call X-Functions. The column formulas can be set to automatically recalculate the results whenever the source data is changed.

Import your data into Origin
Getting your data into Origin is easy–you can access your data from a broad range of sources by either importing data files, using SQL database queries, or directly opening Microsoft® Excel workbooks. Import file formats include ASCII, ETAS Inca, imc Mess-Systeme GmbH - FAMOS, Molecular Devices pCLAMP®, Mathematica®, MATLAB®, MINITAB®, National Instruments LabVIEW® and DIAdem, Princeton Instruments, and Thermo® SPC data files or you can program your own.

Publication Quality Graphs
Origin’s wide array of 2D, 3D, statistical and contour graph types can be created with the click of a button. You can even instantly add a data plot to an existing graph using drag-and-drop from any worksheet or Excel workbook.

Powerful Data Analysis
Origin provides a wide array of analysis tools, including Descriptive Statistics, Hypothesis Testing, One-Way and Two-Way ANOVA, Baseline and Peak Analysis, FFT, Filtering, Smoothing, Linear Regression and Nonlinear Curve Fitting. You can control all aspects of your analysis using specialized, standardized interfaces. Preferred settings can be saved as a theme for later use.