Analysis of gene expression levels in individual bacterial cells without image segmentation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 421, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-430

  Kwak, In Hae ^a   Son, Minjun ^a   Hagen, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

GFP; Image analysis; Phase contrast; Segmentation; Single cell; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SOFTWARE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84860685796     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.03.117     Document Type: Article

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