CellTracking
CellTracking is a simple tool to track, annotate, and extract fluorescence data from time-lapse microscopy movies.
To do so, CellTracking provides a number of features:
- Import different fluorescence channels and switch easily between them
- Partially automated tracking of cells
- Automated definition of a reference polygon in order to perform background subtraction
- Ability to follow a high number of cells at the same time
- Cell cycle phases tagging
- Multiple exports options such as :
- Export of all data defining cells (tracking and cell limits)
- Export of all cells as image sequences
- Export of cell fluorescence intensity
- Computation of aligned tracks on a specified cell cycle phase
- Computation of mosaic view to monitor a high number of cells at the same time
Table of Contents
1 Features
Have a look at the Features page to see what CellTracking can do.
CellTracking:
- is cross-platform (tested on Mac OS X and Debian GNU/linux) - See Installation.
- is free software, released under the GNU General Public License version 3
- is written in Python, using mainly the Numpy and OpenCV libraries (CellTracking does not require you to install any non-free library).
(CellTracking in version 1.0a9)
2 Download
Have a look at this page: Downloads.
3 Installation
CellTracking has already successfully been installed under Mac OS and GNU/Linux (Debian) architecture. Detailed installation instruction can be found in this page Install.
4 How-to / Manual
A manual will be published soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.
5 Developer Documentation
The developer documentation can be found here: Documentation for developers.
6 How to report a bug?
I hope I might have some time to setup a real bugtracker. For the moment, I simply don't have time to moderate all the spam it would receive. Thus, if you have any bug report to do or any feature suggestion, please use my email address to contact me.
7 Contact information
Feel free to contact me for any contact/bug/suggestion at the following address: maxime.woringer @ ens.fr. Thank you!
Program created by Maxime Woringer during a summer internship in Jonathon Pines' lab in the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK. Development is now realized in collaboration with Jörg Mansfeld's group in Dresden.
(CellTracking in version 0.9x)