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OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects
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Counting circular objects such as cell colonies is an important source of information for biologists. Although this task is often time-consuming and subjective, it is still predominantly performed manually. The aim of the present work is to provide a new tool to enumerate circular objects from digital pictures and video streams. Here, I demonstrate that the created program, OpenCFU, is very robust, accurate and fast. In addition, it provides control over the processing parameters and is implemented in an intuitive and modern interface. OpenCFU is a cross-platform and open-source software freely available at http://opencfu.sourceforge.net.
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- Authors
- Geissmann, Q.
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2013-02-15
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e54072
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
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- W2072383593
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- 385
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- FWCI
- 8.54
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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