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. 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. 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.
    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. Genetics and Genomics

    A pilot study for whole proteome tagging in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Matthew Eroglu, Oliver Hobert
    Simultaneous tagging of multiple genes with different fluorophores provides a proof of concept for the scalability of tagging all genes in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Cas9+ conditionally immortalized neutrophil progenitors as a tool for genome-wide CRISPR screening for neutrophil differentiation and function

    Robyn M Jong, Krystal L Ching ... Sarah A Stanley
    Cas9+ER-Hoxb8 neutrophils are a new tool for investigating neutrophil biology in vitro and in vivo.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    High-frequency spike inference with particle Gibbs sampling

    Giovanni Diana, B Semihcan Sermet ... David A DiGregorio
    A Bayesian particle Gibbs framework enables unbiased spike time inference with millisecond resolution and jointly estimates uncertainties in both spike timing and model parameters from fast calcium imaging.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    A quantitative pipeline for whole-mount deep imaging and analysis of multi-layered organoids across scales

    Alice Gros, Jules Vanaret ... Sham Tlili
    The Tapenade pipeline enables single-cell, whole-mount 3D quantification in dense multilayer organoids, linking spatial gene co-expression and nuclear deformation to emerging tissue-scale organization.
    1. Ecology

    Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

    Juan Diaz-Colunga, Pablo Catalan ... Alvaro Sanchez
    A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.