The Data Related to Interfacial Shift Keying Allows a High Information Rate in Molecular Communication

The dataset is linked to the manuscript entitled "Interfacial Shift Keying Allows a High Information Rate in Molecular Communication: Methods and Data" by F. Calì, G. Li-Destri, and N. Tuccitto submitted to IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMC).

Data is given in tab-separated values format as .txt files.

The first column is the elapsed time (s) from the releasing moment. Negative values relate to times prior to molecular messenger injection. The second column is the fluorescence intensity (a.u.) detected by the RX at the given time. The signal is acquired from the analog output and converted to 16bit resolution. The signal is experimental and therefore noisy. Negative values are due to baseline fluctuations. When present, the third column includes the intensity subtracted for the baseline, the fourth column includes subtracted and normalized intensity. In all cases, the baseline was obtained by performing a linear fit between 10 and 110 s and subtracting the line obtained from the entire dataset.

Here is an example of Python code for reading files

import csv

with open('3.5mPas_0.99uLs-1.txt') as csv_file:

    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter='\t')

    line_count = 0

    for row in csv_reader:

        if line_count == 0:

            print(f'Column names are {", ".join(row)}')

            line_count += 1

        else:

            print(row)

            line_count += 1

    print(f'Processed {line_count} lines.')