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ArticleNucleic acids research2010

ParticleStats: open source software for the analysis of particle motility and cytoskeletal polarity.

Russell S Hamilton, Richard M Parton, Raquel A Oliveira, Georgia Vendra, Graeme Ball, Kim Nasmyth, Ilan Davis

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Russell S HamiltonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK. russell.hamilton@bioch.ox.ac.uk
Richard M Parton
Raquel A Oliveira
Georgia Vendra
Graeme Ball
Kim Nasmyth
Ilan Davis
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of dynamic cellular processes in living cells is central to biology and is particularly powerful when the motility characteristics of individual objects within cells can be determined and analysed statistically. However, commercial programs only offer a limited range of inflexible analysis modules and there are currently no open source programs for extensive analysis of particle motility. Here, we describe ParticleStats (http://www.ParticleStats.com), a web server and open source programs, which input the X,Y coordinate positions of objects in time, and output novel analyses, graphical plots and statistics for motile objects. ParticleStats comprises three separate analysis programs. First, ParticleStats:Directionality for the global analysis of polarity, for example microtubule plus end growth in Drosophila oocytes. Second, ParticleStats:Compare for the analysis of saltatory movement in terms of runs and pauses. This can be applied to chromosome segregation and molecular motor-based movements. Thirdly ParticleStats:Kymographs for the analysis of kymograph images, for example as applied to separation of chromosomes in mitosis. These analyses have provided key insights into molecular mechanisms that are not possible from qualitative analysis alone and are widely applicable to many other cell biology problems.

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SoftwareChromosome SegregationInternetKinetochoresMicrotubulesMotion

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PMID20542911
PMCPMC2896115
OpenAlexW2044600412

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