Tools and Resources

A Tools and Resources article allows authors to publish the details of new experimental techniques, datasets, software tools, and other resources.

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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    ImPaqT, a Golden Gate-based immunological toolkit for zebrafish transgenesis

    Saskia Hurst, Christiane Dimmler, Mark R Cronan
    ImPaqT is an immune toolkit that enables modular and expandable cloning of zebrafish transgenes using Golden Gate-based cloning techniques.
    1. Neuroscience

    CellCover defines marker gene panels capturing developmental progression in neocortical neural stem cell identity

    Lanlan Ji, An Wang ... Donald Geman
    In contrast to differential expression-based methods, which evaluate and select individual marker genes, CellCover identifies panels of genes that function together to define cell types.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Stable excitatory-inhibitory synapse balance despite dynamic turnover

    Krassimira A Garbett, James P Allen ... Richard C Sando
    Long-term live imaging and tracking approaches reveal a coordination between excitatory and inhibitory synapse assembly, despite continual spatiotemporal dynamics.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Flexible and high-throughput simultaneous profiling of gene expression and chromatin accessibility in single cells

    Volker Soltys, Moritz A Peters ... Yingguang Frank Chan
    A single-cell multiomic technique measuring both transcription and chromatin accessibility in the same cell.
    1. Neuroscience

    The Crunchometer, a low-cost, open-source acoustic analysis of feeding microstructure

    Elvi Gil Lievana, Benjamin Arroyo ... Ranier Gutierrez
    Making the moment-to-moment dynamics of solid-food intake measurable in any laboratory enables researchers to map the brain circuits that control appetite and accelerate the development of treatments for obesity.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Celldetective, an AI-enhanced image analysis tool for unraveling dynamic cell interactions

    Rémy Torro, Beatriz Díaz-Bello ... Laurent Limozin
    Celldetective is an open-source software integrating segmentation, tracking, and event detection to perform high-throughput end-to-end study of dynamic cell interactions, without requiring coding skills, demonstrated on microscopy immunological assays.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    SqueakPose Studio, an end-to-end platform for pose estimation and real-time edge-AI deployment

    David L Haggerty, Caleb Browning Darden, David Lovinger
    Integrated pose estimation, video acquisition, and edge deployment tools make real-time behavioral analysis more accessible to neuroscience laboratories.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    TopoMetry systematically learns and evaluates the latent geometry of single-cell data

    David Sidarta-Oliveira, Ana I Domingos, Licio A Velloso
    A framework for analyzing single-cell genomics data, in which geometrical properties are harnessed to obtain insights on cellular diversity, including precise clustering, clear visualizations, and intuitive diagnostics.
    1. Developmental Biology

    A cell atlas of the developing human outflow tract of the heart and its adult aortic valve derivatives

    Rotem Leshem, Syed Murtuza-Baker ... Nicoletta Bobola
    Transcriptomic profiling of the developing human outflow tract and adult aortic valves reveals that adult valve cells retain distinct embryonic molecular signatures.
    1. Neuroscience

    SynaptoTagMe, a toolkit for in vivo mapping and modulating neurotransmission at single-cell resolution

    Andrea Cuentas-Condori, Patricia Chanabá-López ... Daniel A Colón-Ramos
    Endogenous tagging and conditional silencing of vesicular transporters reveal widespread, conserved co-transmission, and enable causal dissection of transmitter-specific synaptic function, linking molecular identity to circuit dynamics and behavior in vivo.