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 ##### _DStat is described in detail in [Dryden MDM, Wheeler AR (2015) DStat: A Versatile, Open-Source Potentiostat for Electroanalysis and Integration. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140349. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140349](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0140349) If you use this information in published work, please cite accordingly._
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+## Python 2.7 is now discontinued and gtk has always been a pain for cross-platform use, so I am in the process of writing a new interface in Python 3 and Qt that I hope will be working before too long.
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 This is the documentation for the DStat interface software.
 The DStat interface is written primarily in Python and runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
 It is the main method for running experiments on the DStat, controlling experimental parameters and collecting and plotting data.