FUCCItrack: An all-in-one software for single cell tracking and cell cycle analysis

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Contributors

  • Hubert M. Taïeb - , Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Author)
  • Luca Bertinetti - , Chair of Bioprospecting, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Author)
  • Tom Robinson - , Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Author)
  • Amaia Cipitria - , Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia, Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science (Author)

Abstract

Beyond the more conventional single-cell segmentation and tracking, single-cell cycle dynamics is gaining a growing interest in the field of cell biology. Thanks to sophisticated systems, such as the fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator (FUCCI), it is now possible to study cell proliferation, migration, changes in nuclear morphology and single cell cycle dynamics, quantitatively and in real time. In this work, we introduce FUCCItrack, an all-in-one, semi-automated software to segment, track and visualize FUCCI modified cell lines. A user-friendly complete graphical user interface is presented to record and quantitatively analyze both collective cell proliferation as well as single cell information, including migration and changes in nuclear or cell morphology as a function of cell cycle. To enable full control over the analysis, FUCCItrack also contains features for identification of errors and manual corrections.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere0268297
JournalPloS one
Volume17
Issue number7 July
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 35793313
ORCID /0000-0002-4666-9610/work/179849710

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