BactImAS: a platform for processing and analysis of bacterial time-lapse microscopy movies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The software available to date for analyzing image sequences from time-lapse microscopy works only for certain bacteria and under limited conditions. These programs, mostly MATLAB-based, fail for microbes with irregular shape, indistinct cell division sites, or that grow in closely packed microcolonies. Unfortunately, many organisms of interest have these characteristics, and analyzing their image sequences has been limited to time consuming manual processing.

Results

Here we describe BactImAS - a modular, multi-platform, open-source, Java-based software delivered both as a standalone program and as a plugin for Icy. The software is designed for extracting and visualizing quantitative data from bacterial time-lapse movies. BactImAS uses a semi-automated approach w

SUBMITTER: Mekterovic I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4122790 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature