GradientOptimizer: an open-source graphical environment for calculating optimized gradients in reversed-phase liquid chromatography.

We here present GradientOptimizer, an intuitive, lightweight graphical user interface to design nonlinear gradients for separation of peptides by reversed-phase liquid chromatography. The software allows to calculate three types of nonlinear gradients, each of them optimizing a certain retention time distribution of interest. GradientOptimizer is straightforward to use, requires minimum processing of the input files, and is supported under Windows, Linux, and OS X platforms. The software is open-source and can be downloaded under an Apache 2.0 license at https://github.com/statisticalbiotechnology/NonlinearGradientsUI.