This paper describes an open source program called SOAS, which we developed with the aim of analysing one-dimensional signals. It offers a large set of commands for handling voltammetric and chronoamperometric data, including smoothing signals, differentiation, subtracting baselines, fitting current responses, measuring limiting currents, and searching for peak positions. Although emphasis is on the analysis of electrochemical signals, particularly protein film voltammetry data, SOAS may also prove useful for processing spectra. This free program is available by download from the Internet, and can be installed on computers running any flavor of Unix or Linux, most easily on MacOS X.