OriginLab has announced the release of Origin and OriginPro version 8.6. This latest version provides a series of upgrades and feature enhancements that have been developed based on customer feedback on the previous version, 8.5.1. The most significant new feature is the availability of a native 64-bit version, which will support customers as they work with large datasets.
In addition to increased data storage, version 8.6 also features new gadgets that provide an intuitive interface for performing data analysis immediately on a selected region of data in a graph. Three new gadgets were developed for Origin 8.6, namely Vertical Cursor, Sigmoidal Fit, and Curve Intersection. OriginPro includes all the new Origin features in addition to advanced statistical tools in the area of Principal Component Analysis and Cluster and Discriminant Analysis. More Normality Test methods have also been added to this version.