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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2021

dNEMO: a tool for quantification of mRNA and punctate structures in time-lapse images of single cells.

Gabriel J Kowalczyk, J Agustin Cruz, Yue Guo, Qiuhong Zhang, Natalie Sauerwald, Robin E C Lee

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Gabriel J KowalczykDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
J Agustin CruzDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Yue GuoDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Qiuhong ZhangDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Natalie SauerwaldDepartment of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Robin E C LeeDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

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Equipment Supplement for 5R35GM119462: Deciphering dynamic signals in control of cell fate decisionsR35GM119462 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LEE, ROBIN E. C. · 2016 to 2025
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Abstract

motivationMany biological processes are regulated by single molecules and molecular assemblies within cells that are visible by microscopy as punctate features, often diffraction limited. Here, we present detecting-NEMO (dNEMO), a computational tool optimized for accurate and rapid measurement of fluorescent puncta in fixed-cell and time-lapse images.

resultsThe spot detection algorithm uses the à trous wavelet transform, a computationally inexpensive method that is robust to imaging noise. By combining automated with manual spot curation in the user interface, fluorescent puncta can be carefully selected and measured against their local background to extract high-quality single-cell data. Integrated into the workflow are segmentation and spot-inspection tools that enable almost real-time interaction with images without time consuming pre-processing steps. Although the software is agnostic to the type of puncta imaged, we demonstrate dNEMO using smFISH to measure transcript numbers in single cells in addition to the transient formation of IKK/NEMO puncta from time-lapse images of cells exposed to inflammatory stimuli. We conclude that dNEMO is an ideal user interface for rapid and accurate measurement of fluorescent molecular assemblies in biological imaging data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The data and software are freely available online at https://github.com/recleelab. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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MicroscopySoftwareAlgorithmsRNA, MessengerTime-Lapse ImagingRNA, Messenger

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