Christhin (Chromatography-Riser-Thin) is an Octave package to analyze quantitatively the results of a Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) quickly and with great precision. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation.

Christhin is freely redistributable software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Christhin was written by Maximiliano Barchiesi, Mercedes Sangroni, Carlos Renaudo, Pablo Rossi, and the help of María del Camen Pramparo, Valeria Nepote, Nelson Ruben Grosso and María Fernanda Gayol. Because Christhin is free software you are encouraged to help make Christhin more useful by writing and contributing additional functions for it, and by reporting any problems you may have.

Acknowledgments

We thank CONICET, the Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Gobierno de la Provincia de Chubut and the Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional (CIN) for supporting this development.

We also thank Dr. Héctor "Tito" Fernández and Dr. Nazareno Aguirre for their help.