rcell2: Microscopy-Based Cytometry in R.

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Department of Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: April 2023

This article describes a method for quantifying various cellular features (e.g., volume, curvature, total and sub-cellular fluorescence localization) of individual cells from sets of microscope images, and for tracking them over time-course microscopy experiments. One purposely defocused transmission image (sometimes referred to as bright-field or BF) is used to segment the image and locate each cell. Fluorescence images (one for each of the color channels or z-stacks to be analyzed) may be acquired by conventional wide-field epifluorescence or confocal microscopy. This method uses a set of R packages called rcell2. Relative to the original release of Rcell (Bush et al., 2012), the updated version bundles, into a single software suite, the image-processing capabilities of Cell-ID, offers new data analysis tools for cytometry, and relies on the widely used data analysis and visualization tools of the statistical programming framework R. © 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol: Extracting quantitative information from single cells Support Protocol 1: Obtaining and installing Cell-ID and R Support Protocol 2: Preparing cells for imaging.

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