OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects

TY - JOUR

T1 - OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects

AU - Geissmann, Quentin

PY - 2013/2/15

Y1 - 2013/2/15

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874046979&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0054072

DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0054072

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 23457446

AN - SCOPUS:84874046979

SN - 1932-6203

VL - 8

JO - PLOS ONE

JF - PLOS ONE

IS - 2

M1 - e54072

ER -