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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2024

synapsis: A Bioconductor Package to Automate the Analysis of Meiotic Double-Strand Break Repair and Crossover Formation.

Lucy McNeill, Vanessa Tsui, Wayne Crismani

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Lucy McNeillDNA Repair & Recombination Laboratory, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia.
Vanessa TsuiDNA Repair & Recombination Laboratory, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia.
Wayne CrismaniDNA Repair & Recombination Laboratory, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia. wcrismani@svi.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-0143-8293

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Abstract

Immunofluorescent staining is commonly used to generate images to characterize cytological phenotypes. The manual quantification of DNA double-strand breaks and their repair intermediates during meiosis using image data requires a series of subjective steps, from image selection to the counting of particular events per nucleus. Here we describe "synapsis," a bioconductor package, which includes a set of functions to automate the process of identifying meiotic nuclei and quantifying key double-strand break formation and repair events in a rapid, scalable, and reproducible workflow, and compare it to manual user quantification. The software can be extended for other applications in meiosis research, such as incorporating machine learning approaches to categorize meiotic substages.

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Chromosome PairingDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairMeiosisSoftwareCrossing Over, GeneticHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedAutomated image analysisBioconductorCrossoverDouble-strand breakImmunofluorescenceMeiosisR package

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