CellTracking Documentation

CellTracking is a small Python project that aims to implement features to extract and process fluorescence data coming from time-lapse microscopy experiments. This project is still in development and requires a few modules to work :

  • Python
  • pyGTK
  • OpenCV
  • Numpy

The actual version is v0.9, and the release number is v0.9.1a4. This documentation refers to this release, or at least to this version. unfortunately, and since this is an ongoing project, it may happen that some part of the documentation turns out to be obsolete. If this happen, feel free to report it to the developer.

Note

Be aware that the specifications of the export files may change as the software evolves, and that backward compability can be broken when a new version is released. This is more likely to happen in the early stages of development. Anyway, some export features to spreadsheets software will be available, helping to save all the data from the software.

To help you to see if the version you are using is backward-compatible, please consider the following rules :

  • Between two ‘release’ numbers, backward compability is assured
  • Between two minor version changes (e.g: between 0.7 and 0.8, backward compatibility might be broken, please have a look at the Backward compatibility document, that details each change in the export format.
  • Between two major version changes (e.g: between 1.9 and 2.0), compatibility is likely to be lost, but, some conversion modules might exist, or a compatibility can even be developed, check the Backward compatibility document.

Note

Installation information will be available soon

This documentation aims to provide full-documented examples and function in order to ensure that the code is easy to understand.

Note

CellTracking modules are divided in different folders, depending on how they are essential, and depending on their function. For instance, modules related to opening/reading images are in the modules_load folder, the modules performing analysis on the loaded images are in modules_treatment.

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