Novel Methods for Analysing Bacterial Tracks Reveal Persistence in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Rosser, Gabriel ^a   Fletcher, Alexander G ^a   Wilkinson, David A ^b   de Beyer, Jennifer A ^b   Yates, Christian A ^a   Armitage, Judith P ^b   Maini, Philip K ^a   Baker, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; BACTERIAL MOTILITY; COMPLEX PATTERN; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; NOVEL METHODS; REORIENTATION PHASE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; ROBUST ANALYSIS; TWO PHASE; VIDEOMICROSCOPY;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NOISE MEASUREMENT; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIMULATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887295098     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003276     Document Type: Article

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