Section: New Software and Platforms

FluoBacTracker

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Biology - Biomedical imaging

Functional Description FluoBacTracker is an ImageJ plugin designed to segment and track growing E. Coli cells from microscopy images and movies. FluoBacTracker is a software tool to : 1) Select regions of interest in each image (detect the colony) 2) Denoise and renormalize the images 3) Identify each cells in each image (segmentation) 4) Follow cells through the whole movie (tracking) 5) Detect divisions and construct cell lineage in the population FluoBacTracker is an open-source software (under a tailored license agremment), downloadable free of charge for academics.

• Participants: Magali Vangkeosay, David Parsons and Hugues Berry

• Partner: Université Descartes

• Contact: Hugues Berry

• URL: http://fluobactracker.inrialpes.fr