CellTracker (not only) for dummies

Piccinini, Filippo and Kiss, Alexa and Horváth, Péter (2016) CellTracker (not only) for dummies. BIOINFORMATICS, 32 (6). pp. 955-957. ISSN 1367-4803

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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Time-lapse experiments play a key role in studying the dynamic behavior of cells. Single-cell tracking is one of the fundamental tools for such analyses. The vast majority of the recently introduced cell tracking methods are limited to fluorescently labeled cells. An equally important limitation is that most software cannot be effectively used by biologists without reasonable expertise in image processing. Here we present CellTracker, a user-friendly open-source software tool for tracking cells imaged with various imaging modalities, including fluorescent, phase contrast and differential interference contrast (DIC) techniques. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: CellTracker is written in MATLAB (The MathWorks, Inc., USA). It works with Windows, Macintosh and UNIX-based systems. Source code and graphical user interface (GUI) are freely available at: http://celltracker.website/. CONTACT: horvath.peter@brc.mta.huSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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