READ ME File For Datadet for'Ge on Si waveguide mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy of proteins and their aggregates' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1471 ReadMe Author: Vinita Mittal, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: Mittal, V. (Creator), George Devitt (Contributor), Milos Nedeljkovic (Contributor), Lewis G. Carpenter (Contributor), Harold M. H. Chong (Contributor), James S. Wilkinson (Contributor), Sumeet Mahajan (Contributor)and Goran Z. Mashanovich (Contributor) TITLE: Ge on Si waveguide mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy of proteins and their aggregates JOURNAL:Biomedical Optics Express PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: This dataset contains: Dataset for Fig. 3 and 4 Dataset for Fig 4 Data supporting etc etc [describe the data.] The figures are as follows: Fig. 3 [Waveguide absorption spectra of aqueous BSA solution measured on Ge on Si waveguide showing the amide I and II bands for monomers, oligomers and fibrils] Fig. 4a) [Principal component analysis of BSA monomer and oligomer amide I spectra. 2-dimensional PCA scores plot showing distribution of monomer spectra (red diamonds) and oligomer spectra (blue diamonds) across PC1 and PC2 axes] Fig. 4b [PC1 loadings spectrum highlights the variation responsible for PCA scores] Fig. S1a [Principal component analysis of BSA monomer, oligomer and fibrils amide I spectra.] Fig. S1b [PC1 and PC2 loadings spectrum highlights the variation responsible for PCA scores] Date of data collection: 10/7/2018 - 31/7/2020 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Related projects: [The authors would like to acknowledge the EPSRC Electronic-Photonic Convergence Platform grant (EP/N013247/1), European Research Council (IDEAS-ERC) (FP7/2007-2013, No. 291216) and ERC grant (NanoChemBiovision 638258).] License CC BY Date that the file was created: [ADD date of creation] Readme file created: 10th May 2018 Version updated: